The Ultimate Guide for Absolute Beginners (Part 2)
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Voting Power, Voting Weight and Bandwidth
Voting Power (VP) is a scale to measure your ability to cast an upvote. Everybody starts at 100%, while each 100% upvote consume 2% of your VP. When you reach 500 Steem Power(SP), you can adjust the SP contained in your each upvote to your liking. This is known as Vote Weight, measured in percentage (VW%).VP will be regenerated automatically at a flat rate of 20% per day.
Bandwidth is the allocation of data allowed per time frame. Your bandwidth is determined by your SP, your pending reward on that blockchain and many more. This is like the restricted area in a particular game world, that only open to higher level (more SP) characters.
To avoid getting the “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded” message, you are advised to post good quality post (attracts good upvotes), regularly (so that you have a share in every blockchain) and vote/comment appropriately.
To check your VP and bandwidth with Steemd.com
https://steemd.com/@YOUR_USERNMAE_HERE
Replace “YOUR_USERNMAE_HERE” with your username
Useful Tools
SteemWorld.org is an awesome site run by @steemchiller. It’s a website to check your status, pending rewards, recent activities and many more, much like the character status page inside a RPG game.
To use SteemWorld.org
https://steemworld.org/@YOUR_USERNMAE_HERE
Replace “YOUR_USERNMAE_HERE” with your username
SteemNow.com is another awesome site run by @penguinpablo that have a similar function as SteemWorld.org with a much simple interface. One function that particularly stood out is that SteemNow.com provide a standalone page to calculate vote value based on the SP a user provided. So you can know how much your vote worth, base on your SP, VP% and VW%.
To use SteemNow.com
https://steemnow.com/@YOUR_USERNMAE_HERE
Replace “YOUR_USERNMAE_HERE” with your username
To go to Upvote Calculator directly
https://steemnow.com/upvotecalc.html
The final upvote value is determined by the median internal Steem Price, shown on the upper left corner. All pending reward (post less than 7 days old) will be affected by this value. So don't freak out when you noticed that your post value dropped.
Please click here for Part 3
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This is very useful. Thanks @jun04035 for the sharing. I think all new steemian should read all three parts when they started, they're lucky there's a guide like this available.
Sifu, when wanna do another tt to explain to me?
awsome.. thankx for sharing with us :)
Thanks for sharing SteemWorld.org
How to use and utilize the power in steemit is well organized in this writing. And the informations are well written and decribed in very understandable format keep it.
Great info, found out most of this myself the hard way!
Man @jun04035! This is spectacular for a newbie like me! Thanks so much for sharing in such an easy to read format. I am going to be checking out each of these sites to figure out which one I prefer. I'm going over to read part 1 and 3 of this article as well. No doubt I followed you! Great work!
Thanks for sharing this information, with this i can easily navigate through the steemit world.
Perfect guide to understanding. My currently most used feature on Steem World is the manual vote. I curate a lot of posts and this allows me to allocate more than the average minnow user stuck at 100% VP. I still make sure I can give a whole penny though! Just recently acquired enough SP to do such :). Very excited! Thank you for taking the time to help others learn the details of this community. This is key to them staying and growing the platform. You are doing the good work, cheers to that!