RE: my steemit introduction: encouragement, great stories from real people, is world peace in sight?
SP is just your voting INFLUENCE. I know... all these different currencies and various metrics drove me nuts at first too. Perhaps it is my fault for not clarifying that point. After all, we put money into buying SP. Perhaps I should be using the term vests. All the tutorials I've read call it Steem Power and I'm simply using their jargon. Sorry for misleading you. As I said before, vests and SP are somehow linked, but they are different. It does NOT cost you any MONEY to vote or resteam. It is ONLY your voting INFLUENCE that goes down and is replenished at 20% per day. Basically you can use 80 % every day and be back at 100% the following day. If you are way down, stop for a few days to allow it to get to 100%. Use ... darn... not sure if I leave the page to look it up if I lose all my typing... anyway, use one of the links from my tutorial to get to the db. I think it is steemdb.com and 1 more that show your voting power.
I really have no idea when the update will be, but it seems like it could be within the next few weeks or less.
i will have to study all that ... i found the page. yet i cannot find the VOTING influence, the percentage.
https://steemdb.com/labs/author
Just use https://steemdb.com/@marionjoe and you will see the graphic (power bar) top right.
testing power bar
i have just voted on your comment. and now am
You have 89 % left.
that's funny, it changed from 88. something % to 89% remaining, AFTER i upvoted your comment
You are constantly earning your influence power. It could be that the data you saw was about to update or did update (on the servers) but until you do something to update your browser, what you see stays the same. Then when you voted, it caused the browser to update and show the new information. Beyond that, one of the 2 places to see your power is only updated every hour, but I don't remember which one it is. All these tools are simply a way to get an idea of where you stand. I wouldn't get too hung up on the small differences.
ok