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RE: Voting 101 -- An Itty Bitty Fishy Guide To Voting Well (if over 1,000 SP -- this is not for you)
I am not that powerful and the issue with it yes it doesn't cost anything but it also doesn't give anyone anything either when you drain your power and you are a minnow. I am still a minnow working on becoming larger and for minnows your vote isn't worth anything if vote too much. My husband also use the platform and his account is not worth much at all and if he goes below 80% he vote is worth 0 because his vote is only worth a cent or two right now, that is why a minnow shouldn't excessively vote, not till they gain some power, like the title states this is just the first of many tips for newbies, there will be another post by me or another of the Yunk team that tackles the topic of voting as you grow and how it should change.
I also don't always practice what I preach and go below 80% more than I would like, I just got back up there after being drained down to 0 VP
It took me a month+ for my vote to be worth a penny. Even when it's not worth a penny, it might be worth 3/4 of a penny. I was so proud when my vote made the rewards value change, by a penny. HF19 changed that and my vote went from a penny to .20$, then everything got weird. People stopped voting.
We are always going to depend on dolphin and whale votes to have a truly successful post, it doesn't mean that we should stop voting when we are near or below a penny. People like upvotes, no matter the value. To not vote is to slow your own growth.
To go along with your logic, I shouldn't have upvoted once in the first month+ that I was on the platform. I don't recommend the noobs ruin their voting power south of 60-70%, but they don't need to be near a 100% either, votes don't much matter when they are at .01.
I don't want to screw up your university, so I will slink away now.
I didn't mean to come off as not to vote at all, and if this came off that way I hope to clear it up in lesson two.
It's only my two cents, digest it with all the other comments you receive. I am very wary of the 10 vote advice to new fish, they will hold onto that thought for a long time.
I made an edit so anyone new seeing this knows I believe as you grow you should vote more, and that there are differing opinions on it. I just know I made some of the mistakes like not fully understanding things like good and bad bots. I got drained where my vote was worth 0 in two days. And didn't understand so I started researching and I still voted but it took me over a month to get back up to 80% or higher, I still haven't made it back to 100% yet. Got close because I was busy for two days and was hardly on, but I will never be 100% powered up because I can't help but vote for the great content on the site. I read so much crap too though and see so much stolen content. We will be address that issue in an upcoming lesson too.
More power to Yunk University. I've made the mistake of automating my vote and being drained to nothing. It really sucks because you get repowered on a percentage basis, so the lower you go, the slower it returns. Peace.
that was really my motivation to write this piece because of my mistake thinking it would help me but it really hurt me.
I will just wirte similar same response as I have given "wakeupsheeps", in case you didn't see above reply:
You don't get the sliding scale till 500 but also your vote is worth 1-5 cent until then,so by not voting others but only themsleves you don't earn anything. That even more supports the fact that you should vote at leat 30 times a day. It is not just about money here. It is about showing appreciation and support towards other writers' content. Top show that they have loyal following they can count on when they post something, regardless if they earn much from that support or not.
IMO, if soemone is greedy holding their power over 80% or not voting more than 10 votes a day, then they should not expect other to be altruistic towards themselves and reciprocate on their posts.
Also, the power never goes lower than about 30% regardless how many votes you have cast.
Self post voting is a must. Self comment voting is a no-no.
Also commenting on others post without a vote is considered greedy or smap commenting to fish potential following or vote back while not giving anything.
Unless the comment was a criticism, thenthere is no need to vote on the post you don't like.