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RE: Under 40 Steem Power and Losing Bandwidth?
I thought I was losing my mind and had completely misunderstood how the platform works. Thank you for posting this, I’m pretty sure this has been my issue as well.
Although at this stage in my steemit journey I’m not really sure of anything 🤷♀️
Yes, there were many experiencing the problem in the past week. As the site grows during peak traffic hours the bandwidth is delegated to everyone, but us as newbies with very little Steem Power get overwhelmed because we lose too big a percentage of the bandwidth, whereas the whales and more established people get prioritized a higher percentage based on the high amount of Steem Power they have. Basically it is some elaborate algorithm that leaves us smaller accounts unable to do anything. While 40 Steem Power is a good point to hit you could still have the issue just not quite as bad, but as we get higher it will get better.
Well now that I know this I have a goal to strive for. I've got a very small amount of steem dollars that I'm wanting to convert to steem power but I'll need to look into how to do that. It's a little overwhelming for me at the moment 😅
You're in luck! I just posted this the other day - https://steemit.com/newbieresteemday/@randomwanderings/turning-your-steem-dollars-into-steem-so-easy-to-do
Just go from Steem Dollars to Steem Power instead (In the post I went from Dollars to Steem)
Also, once you next post pays out it will add some as well. Just remember the amount of Steem Power in parentheses is delegated to you by Steem itself. IT makes it so you keep 15 SP, so as you add more the delegated amount will go down until you have 15 SP of your own then it will be gone. And then you are on your own building from that point.
Oh my god!!! Thank you for freaking explaining that to me, it was driving me nuts not understanding why there was steem in perenthasis!
Seriously. You just made my morning haha. I can’t stand when I don’t u rest and something, so this whole steem learning curve has been a trial in patience for me.
We all go through it! That is part of the reason the Newbie Resteem Initiative was started a few weeks ago. We are here to help Newbies with questions and to help figure things out quicker as we all know what it took for us to search and find out what we were doing .