Well said @shayne. People are not voting as they did before HF19. I think it's because of 2 reasons.
- The voting power diminishes substantially and is slow to recover.
- They are giving priority to their own posts and comments.
One solution would be to reduce the %age by which voting power goes down or just decrease the time it takes to recover. Even a 25% change would make a difference I guess.
You're correct here in your reasons I think, nail on the head.
I'm look at a project to stigmatize self voting now with @l0k1, might be of interest
Indeed. Myself, as a so called "Red Fish", have just today decided to only upvote 1 of my 4 posts per day, reserving the other 9-10 upvotes to benefit those I follow or find interesting/honest/creative/etc.
The patterns make it so obvious if one pays attention to patterns.
And part of the issue is simply the user interface, and the limited technical understanding of the majority of new users. This is also bad UX design, by the way, to make bad defaults. Anyone who tells you 'oh, the steemit.com interface is wonderful' I want to meet these unicorns.
Under 482 SP, or so, users do not have the ability to reduce their vote weight, in the steemit.com interface.
Yea, that is a challenge. Ability to reduce vote weight should be made even lower.
Enable vote slider for small SP accounts post HF19:
https://github.com/steemit/condenser/issues/1544
Of course, this is a 'feature request' and there is a practical problem at this point, minnow accounts have a much more limited bandwidth. Actually, that makes me think about how the account fee should actually be raised because this would also get around this problem (bandwidth allocation is completely controlled by the amount of SP in an account, as well as the block size).
Time to do a witness report. I wonder if @timcliff will post a link to it on his regular update :S
Thanks for posting! I've been wondering what people were talking about with voting percentages since I couldn't see a way to change mine.
I am campaigning to finish the process of leveling the playing field :) Vote 1, l0k1 for Witness!
That and perhaps remove the self upvoting option?
I had to reduce my voting power to 50% so that I would be able to vote more often. I also disabled the auto-upvote feature. I only have a 2 cent upvote, maybe I got to 3 cents, but still putting it out there for the community.
From what I read, the recovery is actually quite fast. I do not remember where I read it, but before HF19; I thought you could vote 40 times every day for a week and gain your power back within around 72 hours?
Glad there isn't a downvote because I am probably wrong, but I thought the time it took to recover was pretty short?
And I like the ideal of reducing the %age by which voting power goes down more. I remember the article expressing to vote not just for any random thing, but if you find 10 good posts and/or threads (does it matter AT ALL if it is a comment or a thread? You make less with comments right or?) then vote those, but if the next day you find 40 good comments and/or threads, then vote on them. Basically it said not to let the algorithm control you.
But let's be real with ourselves guys, we do study the algorithm and make threads (popular ones too) debating on such topics because this because every day we spend gaining STEEM Power that increases the value of our votes, that isn't why we are voting. Most people are like myself and don't just randomly going around upvoting but only upvotes when they see a comment or thread that they feel deserves more attention. Just like on Reddit, upvote for visbility.
Except with Steemit, it's upvote for visibility (or pay) and for money.
Thoughts?