Last year I saw minnows being stingy with their votes and in some respects it has even gotten worse this year.   It almost becomes laughable because their vote isn't going to make a significant change in their payout if they try to always save their power.   

Technically I'm a minnow with the Steem Power I have right now and I vote so much and so often that my power is usually between 20% and 30%.   If I didn't vote my vote could be worth a dollar.   So why don't I just let it recharge and then pay myself that amount?   I could pay myself an extra $5 or $10 / day right?   Yeah sure but that is the wrong way to go about it.   Even if my vote was worth $100 I would still vote like crazy!   You know why?   Because people will appreciate you and get behind you if you are helping them out.  I'm here to build a lasting sustainable following.   I have seen it many times in my life where people who are greedy actually cut themselves off from bigger opportunities.   

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So as always I try to avoid a cheer-leading mental masturbation session and give you something you can actually implement today to increase your earnings and progress on this platform.   A few days ago I did a Prank post about some of the voting I was seeing.   Now this post won't make sense to a newer user but basically I started it out as a pretend negative post but actually then said I was joking and explained where some of the comment voting was coming from.   You can read the post or just skip it because I will briefly explain it below.   

I explain in the post that there are a lot of comment voting that initially looked odd but upon further investigation it made more sense and it was from @jesta running an incentive for his alternative way to access the STEEM blockchain called ChainBB.  This is a forum style interface to the STEEM block chain. Essentially you can make money becoming a BETA tester for the project.    Considering I make thousands of comments while engaging with the community I'm able to do it through ChainBB and earn rewards that will really rack up overtime for helping test the project.   Anyone can do it.  Just go to the following website and use your posting key to access it.   ChainBB won't have access to your wallet and even if somehow something went wrong the only thing that people would be able to do with your Posting key would be to vote, comment, and make blog posts.  They wouldn't be able to transfer any money out of your wallet.   I keep it open in another tab at all times and comment from there.   

https://beta.chainbb.com

Here is a screenshot of a comment breakdown I had on one of my posts.   Notice by each of the red dots that I keep getting a solid little tip because I was posting through ChainBB.   Those are all without my own upvotes.

There are a lot of ways you can make money on this platform so you have to keep your eyes out for opportunities like this.   Getting stuck in the mindset that you are managing voting power to pay yourself an extra couple bucks each day won't benefit you over the course of months or years.  

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