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RE: my steemit introduction: encouragement, great stories from real people, is world peace in sight?
It costs you Steem Power each time you vote. Currently, if you are at 100% voting power, you can vote 40 times per day and by tomorrow you will be at full power again. Soon (after they do the update to HardFork 19), that will drop to only 10 votes per day. It does not cost you anything from your actual money to vote or to resteem
wow, it COSTS me SP to vote? eeek!
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.
how can i find out my percentage voting power?
You are at 88.62
https://steemdb.com/@marionjoe
Don't vote any more today and you should be 100% tomorrow.
wow, thank you.
what does LESS influence actually mean?
It means that you have less voting power and will earn less money. The whales have all the power and when they vote their one vote can equal 100 or more minnow votes. If you add 1 cent, they could potentially add $10 if they use 100% of their vote power. Many use the slider to give less each vote, but vote on more posts and spread the wealth.