The Importance of your Steem VOTING POWER % - Just my two cents

Dear New People of Steemit: Stop Voting on everything and let your Steem "Voting Power" build up to 100 %.

If you do not let your Voting Power restore (by not voting) your upVotes will be worth $0.

Everytime you upVote a post or a comment your Voting Power drops by 2 %. If you are relatively new here on Steemit once you go below 80 % your upVote is worth almost nothing.

It took me a while to learn this but it is very important. Whether you have the original delegated 27 Steem Power or 1,000 Steem Power or 100,000 Steem Power you need to take a break from voting and let your Steem Voting Power build back up to 100 %.....

To know what your Steem Voting power is Log into http://www.Steemd.com/@username (replace username with your actual Steemit User Name) and you will see something that looks like this in the Left hand corner:

It takes about 24 hours (1 full day) to recover 20 % of your VOTING POWER. So you can see I let mine drop to 71 % - it will take me a day and a half to get back to 100 % where my upVote will then be worth 10 cents.

Try to get your Steem Power up to at least 500 Steem and you will be able to reward people with about 5 cents when your Steem Voting Power is at 100 %.

I try to keep my Steem Power between 90%-100 % so that my Vote is actually worth Something.

If I vote 5 times a day my Power will drop from 100 % to 90 % and my reward will be closer to 10 cents.

At 1,000 Steem Power my upVote was worth about 9 cents .... at 500 Steem Power it was worth 4.5 cents .... at 250 Steem power it was worth 2 cents ... at 125 Steem power worth 1 penny. Less than 100 Steem power is not much at all or zero.

Just my two cents ....

Some believe that the phrase "Just my 2 cents" originates in betting card games, such as poker. In these games, one must make a small bet, or ante, before beginning play. Thus, the phrase makes an analogy between entering the game and entering a conversation. However, there is no documentary evidence of this being the origin of the idiom, so it is merely speculation. Other likely origins are that "my two pennies worth" is derived from the much older 16th Century English expression, "a penny for your thoughts", possibly a sarcastic response to receiving more opinion than was wanted "I said a penny for your thoughts, but I got two pennies' worth". There is also some belief that the idiom may have its origins in the early cost of postage in England, the "twopenny post", where two pennies was the normal charge of sending a letter containing one's words and thoughts or feelings to someone.

via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents

"Two cents" and its variations may also be used in place of the noun "opinion" or the verb phrase "state [subject's] opinion", e.g. "You had to put your two cents in, didn't you?" or "But that’s just my two cents."

This expression is also often used at the end of a statement, e.g. "Just my two cents."