Good thing the cave has lots of wine.
Anyone who knows me knows I love autovoting my peeps (the ones I can count on to provide awesome content, but aren't yet making obscene amounts of money like a whale.) If you frequently see my upvote, but I don't comment every single time, it means I'm probably autovoting you. ;)
I also love manually upvoting people I'm not following if their post moves me in some way.
However, since the rollout of HF19, I have not had decent voting power. My votes drain so darn fast...and it's frustrating me that it never gets anywhere close to 100%.
Even at the time of the screenshot below, my voting power is a measly 29.38% and will get you maybe $0.03 if you're lucky. How is that going to help anyone? As a minnow, a 100% upvote is pretty much the only choice I have in order to make any kind of impact -- and I would only be allotted 10 of those per day assuming that my voting power ever gets up to full power.
For this reason and perhaps a few others, I'm going to take a little break from upvoting EVERYONE so I can recharge. I'm not even going to upvote my own posts or my son's. I also want to use the time to regroup, reassess my autovote list (perhaps remove most -- maybe all, of the whales and add some other minnows I admire.) After all, the whales don't need my help! I think we minnows should be helping each other. There is some whale content I do enjoy, and will manually upvote it (very selectively) after I have recharged.
No upvoting for a few days will also help me come up with some extra post ideas for myself, as I will continue making posts during my recharge. I do well with solitude. :)
The point of this post is to communicate what is going on with me. If you're used to seeing my upvotes and then suddenly don't see them, this is why. I still love you.
Wow! For a moment I thought this post would have to do something with wine! You totally fooled me with the title and the picture...my bad thought, I see wine everywhere due to being in the wine business. I've checked out your posts and will definitely follow you now, great content. Enjoy your retirement, grab a good glass of red wine, helps put things into perspective and relax!
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Glad to meet you!
...a glass for you, too perhaps?
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I'd never say no to a glass of wine! Cheers!
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@cali-girl enjoy the cave, the recharge, and an upvote from me!
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Thank youuuuu!
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Have a great time out. I try to post when the battery is down.
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You do your best thinking in a cave too?
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Hey cali-girl, how does autovoting work? First time I hear that
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You sign up for an account on steemvoter.com and add rules with each person's account name, vote power, and time delay.
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Okay, thank you very much :)
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Something we're all having to think about these days @cali-girl! I have stuck to upvoting every comment I receive (with very few exceptions and to be honest it isn't doing anyone any good receiving my 00.1 cent reward. At full power I think it's 7 cents which still isn't very much but I think I am going to do the same as yourself and let myself get back to 100% and use my votes more wisely in future.
Nice post my friend! Hope your day is going well!
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Awesome! There's plenty of wine here in my cave if you're interested...
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The cave sounds amazing but unfortunately I don't drink, :( Despite the fact that I am a Scotsman! :)
I prefer to relax with the herb! :)
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Ah well...you are still welcome in the cave!
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:) I like the thought of being a caveman for a while!
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I dunno about your upvote not doing anyone any good. I love an aul vote, even if there's divil the cent attached to it a tall a tall.
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Really good start in this post :-). Give you what i can, hope you recover quickly,
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Thank you very much!
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good luck with the rehab of steemit i heared its quite intense
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I'll still be around, just not clicking that blue upvote button that I sooo want to click right now. :)
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Well, get a break in and I'll be looking forward to another post when you get the chance :)
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Probably will be pretty soon. Curating actually takes quite a bit of time, so I'll have some extra free time to express my weirdness. :)
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manually upvoted :)
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HF19 is a bitch.
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Yes, I'm not loving it too much anymore.
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If you lose a friend because you didn't upvote them, they weren't friends in the first place.
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Yes, indeed!
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There's absolutely no reason to WINE if you've got a CAVE like that! Enjoy your time in there!
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...but...I'll wine if I want to!! :P
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The Hermit is never lonely, because it's never lonely in the Hermit's cave...
Was that deep? I think it was deep... :o)
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Deep as a puddle.
:D
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