Power up for newbies (Voting weight too small? Get more than $20 in SP delegation for free)

in #steemit8 years ago (edited)

TL;DR: I have over $20 000 worth of STEEM POWER delegation that I am willing to give for free for a limited period of time to users (~$20 to each user) who have difficulty using the Steem platform in a normal way, because the value of their accounts is too low.

If you get the error:

"Voting weight is too small, please accumulate more voting power or steem power."

then you are one of the users affected by this situation.

As a result of various factors, including the high price of STEEM, some low-powered accounts, typically the newly-created ones, may have insufficient bandwidth (in other words, not enough Steem Power) even for non-excessive usage.

You can think of it as a game where beginners try to play with their low-level characters and can do only very basic actions, so they quickly get tired. What I want to do is lend you good armor and a few artifacts to help you have an easier start.

If your account has less than 15 STEEM POWER (both own and delegated) and you have trouble voting, posting or commenting because of that, or you would like to just get a nice bonus for start, please let me know in a comment below.
(Or if you can't, contact me (Gandalf) on steemit.chat)

I will temporarily delegate 20k VESTS to you, which is currently worth over $20.

steempowerdelegation.png

This will give you not only more bandwidth to perform actions on the Steem platform, but also more influence: your upvotes will be more powerful and your curation rewards will be bigger.

Bla, bla, bla (some technical note):
@timcliff's idea about increasing block size to 128k can help with bandwidth requirements for other transactions such as posts, comments, and transfers. Unfortunately voting is a different story. All because of: #define STEEMIT_VOTE_DUST_THRESHOLD (50000000)

I reserve the right to discontinue this action at any time, withdraw the delegation without giving any reasons, and choose not to delegate Steem Power at my own discretion.

EDITs:
Good news: Steemit increased delegation so this issue should be mostly gone, I've changed requirement to <15 STEEM POWER (both own and delegated)
Please check your wallet before commenting here: In most cases issue should be already gone and you should have enough Steem Power already delegated to your account

Many thanks to @fukako for the graphic made for the purpose of this post.
(25% of SBD rewards will be transferred to her)



If you believe I can be of value to steem, please vote for me (gtg) as a witness on Steemit's Witnesses List or set (gtg) as a proxy that will vote for witnesses for you.
Your vote does matter!
You can contact me directly on steemit.chat, as Gandalf



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I don't need a donation, I can buy steem and steem dollars on bittrex. And I'm willing to grow here organically anyway. So, with that out of the way, the reason for my comment is just to thank you for the gaming metaphor, which made me completely understand what is happening here in less than three sentences. Well done! Thanks!

Thank you for your comment! Actually I'm lobbying in favor of gamification since the beginning (unfortunately lack of UI/UX skills). I'm sure it would help this site to grow even faster.

I'm with you on that.

Yes that will be good, this site does need more perceived structure and not everyone playing spy vs spy.

This reply made almost $5 purely because you're already doing well. Get the problem? It's the same thing as a city. Do everything to get rid of losers?

That reply was 9 months ago during my first two weeks on the platform, but I got well known since then by actually showing up nearly 24 hours a day and doing the work to build massive communities and not crying about fairness because I was not raised in an age where everybody gets a blue ribbon or skips facts to make themselves a victim. Get the problem?

there is not error like this post for me.
But it was not fun, when i vote someone, just voted up less then single cent!
I can't check my voting is works.
I think, It was the matter, steemit newbie was gone out like me.

There's no such error for you because you have already much more Steem Power than threshold that I'm writing about. Your vote does make a difference but sometimes it's too low to affect potential payout, when rounded to 1 cent. Especially when you take a look at it in early stage of voting.
This works and you can check it easily - you are actually getting curation rewards.

Thanks for your reply. I will find about curation and your link!

Hi, @gtg! Please, delegate some power to me. Big thanks! I want to know about steem platform and recommend to my friends, also i share all new info for them and i see changes.

Hello Maxim, you currently have >27 Steem Power delegated to your account :-) You can check those amount in your wallet (delegated amount is in brackets). That should be more than enough for normal interactions with site. Good luck.

Great!!! Thank you, @gtg! I send your article to my brothers, coz they are keen on new technologies, eth and science. See you!

Great initiative. I am a newbie with less than 15 Steel power. I have bren actively trying to participate and bond in the community. A little help from your soḍe in delegates Steem power will go a long way in supporting my efforts. Thanks in advance.

Hello, you currently have >27 Steem Power delegated to your account :-) You can check those amount in your wallet (delegated amount is in brackets). That should be more than enough for normal interactions with site. Good luck.

oh ok. Sorry. Did not know that though I had studied the guidelines etc

No problem, I'm aware that it is not easy to get familiar with all that Steem platform specifics, but don't worry, it just need some more time. :-)

Great! My account gets this issue sometimes. Would love more voting power I can give to my followers and to people which posts I enjoy. Thanks in advance! @gtg

Shouldn't be the case anymore, you currently have received 301k VESTS :-)

Thank you for helping the new members

you are welcome,
delegated 20k VESTS

Great man !! Where can get more power?

Great initiative to help struggling minnows! Well done.

BTW I won't be applying, just wanted to express my gratitude for helping the community

Thank you :-)

Hi @gtg please delegate some power to me. Big thanks.

delegated 20k VESTS

It looks that I experienced this situation- tried to upvote with no luck plus my account has got 0.9 steem ballance. Thats why your kind offer suits me perfectly to speed it up a bit. Would you be so kind and boost temporary my Steem Power pls? :)

Thx in advance

delegated 20k VESTS

Here it comes-Vote for You. Hope you will become number 1 Witness. Thank you again

I also had this situation. Don't think I will anymore, but I am glad for the clarification. This makes a lot of sense. Those error messages were getting annoying.

I have less than 30 Steem power :)

delegated 20k VESTS

thanks I will make sure I use it judiciously

Awesome initiative @gtg !

I actually kept getting this error yesterday and two days ago, but once i waited it out for a couple hours it went away.

Your help will be much appreciated, especially for people like me, who tend to upvote ALOT of things! As a result, I will resteem this post for more visibility and will vote you as witness, as anyone with your love for the community deserves to be voted!

Let's all vote for @gtg guys! Maybe he'll reach no 1 spot!

delegated 20k VESTS

Thanks alot @gtg ! You are one of the people that makes this platform amazing!

Thank you :-)
What is great about this platform is that there are hundreds of people involved in improving it.