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RE: ❓ Answering Common Questions: How can I explain voting simply to others? ☑️
Thank you clearing that up. It seems that after HF19 individuals became more cognizant of their voting patterns. Instead of gleefully voting for everything, they are more self aware of the impact on both voter and voted so that there is more thought being placed into it thus rewarding value to the individual author. All of this in the hopes of creating more value to a stronger community.
Happy to help! And I totally agree!
Between having few votes (compared to the regen rate) AND our votes meaning so much more...people are starting to be more picky on where they cast them. This really is a very good thing! I really hope it helps to get those better pieces better rewarded.
Since I joined after the new rules were in place, I don't know any other voting system. My first day here, I hadn't gotten read about voting yet, so figuring it was like other platforms, in my extremely zealous pursuit of everything new and shiny I up voted myself silly, which meant going down to 15%. As you know, that affected me deadly for the next couple of days. I wish I had read this then, but young minnows will make mistakes and live and learn, right?
Oh definitely! It's important to just have fun...which often means upvoting so many of the great things on here!
It gets a LOT easier to manage when you unlock the vote slider bar at about 500 Steem Power. This lets you choose how much of a vote you give out..meaning you can instead of 10, 100% votes give:
20 - 50% votes
40 - 25% votes or
1000 - 1% votes :)
I'm still getting used to the new balance myself however..so definitely don't let it add stress. :)
You would think something like that would be setup in reverse, since a new minnow is likely to explore more and find all the hidden gems that are buried deep in the hollows. To go beyond the new, hot and trending in their search for all that is new and exciting in their newly discovered land. Voting on more since they are being exposed to more. Once they have their sea legs and have a better understanding and appreciation of their new environment, then they can make more of an impact on what truly moves them.