The NUMBER 1 Mistake Most New Users on Steemit Make
When a new user registers on steemit.com the first thing he usually does is to start voting on as many posts as he can hoping that this will help him/her earn more Steem Power, but that is simply not going to happen. Voting on too many posts is not only not going to help you initially, but will actually make it worse for you as you will be diluting your initial voting power.
Every new user that registers on steemit.com gets a $10 Steem Dollar equivalent for free that is invested in Steem Power, so you start with 3 Steem Power already available in your account. This is your initial influence on the platform, your voting power starts at 100%, but as soon as you start casing a lot of votes it starts to get lower and lower and with each next vote you make your influence is diminishing as well as your voting power. The voting power regenerates in the course of a day unless you spend it too fast voting to allow it to increase back to the maximum level.
So instead of voting for hundreds of articles when you start using steemit.com you can just choose 10 or 20 maximum really quality ones with high potential and vote only for them for the whole day. The next day you can do the same and this way your power per vote will be higher and the chance that you will get rewarded for your votes properly as well
There are some services out there that allow you to check what is your maximum voting power worth and how much is the current voting power worth as well as what percentage is the voting power you have at the moment (it is wise not to go below 30%). One such website is SteemDollar.com, where you can just type in your username and see the results for your voting power.
If you have 100% voting power and at that level one of your votes is worth 0.01 Steem Dollars, then if you vote for a publication on steemit.com you will add that amount to the reward pot of the post. Then after 12 hours when the first round of rewards for that post is being distributed mostly to the author and some percentage of it going to the voters you will have a higher chance of getting a reward and it will be higher than if you have voted at just 30% voting power for example.
So vote wise and for just a few quality articles per day that look promising, you help yourself and the community!
So we're really voting for what we think will be popular rather than what we think is truly worthy?
The best thing to do is to vote for quality content that you think deserves your votes and it will get popular if enough people vote for it, however the problem is that many people vote just for what is more likely to get the most Steem Dollars as a reward.
The problem if you are a new user is that even if you vote for posts that get thousands of Steem Dollars from voters your contribution will most likely be so small part among the many votes, so that you may not even get a reward. At the same time if you vote for a quality post that just makes a couple of steem dollars you may actualy get a reward for your contribution even with not much ot Steem Power.
Thanks, i think but i inadvertently hadn't voted much because i didn't understand the system, thats a go thing , right?
Check your voting power, keeping at a higher percentage and voting for fewer, but quality articles is the best thing to do... you will get better chance of getting curation rewards as well as them being higher.
I want to share some of my thoughts about voting. We should be responsible. Quality should go first. https://steemit.com/steemit/@dumpa/curators-dilemma-is-it-good-vs-is-it-going-to-make-it-to-the-top
Hi! This post has a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of 12.7 and reading ease of 61%. This puts the writing level on par with academic journals.
Keep up the great work @cryptos
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