Fifteen minutes before HF19, I was at over a 90% vote weight. 30 votes were available to me before I crossed the 40 vote threshold.

Not knowing how HF19 would pan out, I gamed the voting system in the last 15 minutes before HF19 kicked in.

I used up all my remaining votes & voted for every comment on all my posts including the good post , follow me, I'll follow you ones.

SteemStats.com tracked me at about 70% voting power with all 40 votes used up, once I was done.

The please upvote me; please follow me comments, irritated me the most. Most of these comments, are from newbies feeling their way around Steemit.

   Then I  remembered,
   About eight months ago, I too was one of them.

Hard Fork | Hard Heart

After HF19 went live, I was pleasantly surprised that my 3 cent vote to some minnows had become 16 cent votes. Not much; but, 16 is better than 4, though.

Does feel good to add some extra value to newbies.

Steemit HF19.

So far.

So good.

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Updated on 23 June 2017

Updated this post with in response to comments on this post.

When did this go into effect? I'm still having trouble gaining traction. Please follow me
@mccordy, comment

16 cents is waaay bigger than 0.04 I see you are on 21.co and medium. Do you blog there as well?post the same posts?
@luvabi, comment

Who. Your post is very interesting. I would like to do something like you. Can you follow and advice to me? I'm new steemit member. Thank.
@myothantz, comment

See earlier Steemit posts

Philosophy

• Who have I helped build up today?

• The Steemit Test: What's in my heart?

• Steem, Steemit, Esteem: A Little Badass? Truly Beautiful?

• The world according to Daniel Larimer

• Why I am bullish on Steemit. And its not the monetization of social, censor free media or bootstrapping an anarchistic ecosystem

Strategy

• As Medium monetizes, are there lessons for Steemit?

• The Steemit Marketing Plan 2017: Good enough is not enough, @zurvanic @andrarchy

• Are there some growth ideas for Steemit from the Facebook F8 2017 developer conference?

• One Lesson for Steemit from Google I/O 2017: Mobile first, before AI first. Steemit needs a mobile app yesterday.

• Fifteen minutes before HF19.....I remembered that eight months ago I too was one of them!

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• How to succeed on Steemit: Guaranteed

• Forget about making money on Steemit. For now.

• You can make Steemit work for you. How to monetize your Steemit efforts through WAO: Whale Attention Optimization

• The Steemit Daily & Steemit Copy

• You can make Steemit work for you. How to monetize your Steemit efforts through WAO: Whale Attention Optimization

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• Calling out @asshole

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• Why Dad Loved 'Isn't It A Lovely Day?'

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