To Upvote or Not? Smart Way to Give Upvotes in Steemit Posts

Upvoting is one of the ways which people can make money here in Steemit. This is only when you know how to play smart in your votes. The rules can be very hard to understand, especially when you are new to Steemit.

As of the moment, the rule of upvoting in Steemit was changed. In the past, Steemit will pay users who post interesting things and voters. This is when the post will soon become a trend in the community. Now all the voting done within 30 minutes that the post was submitted, the reward will be shared to the author. That is why it is very crucial when to decide to vote. You can read everything about this in steemit blog page.

To summarize the rules, here is a detailed info:

a. If you upvote before 15 minutes, the author will have 99.94% and only leaves you 0.06%.
b. If you upvote after 15 minutes, you and author will receive both 50%.
c. But if you upvote after 30 minutes, 100% of the reward will be yours.

But before deciding to vote a post, make sure you remember the following:

a. Don't vote if the content is already trending.
b. Make sure you read the post before voting. Is this interesting or informational? A lot of us here just do upvoting without reading.
c. The more upvotes you do withing 24 hours the more rewarding and worth it your votes are.
d. Maybe it is better to vote what really interests you and not what you think will become trending later on.