Hi everyone and welcome to Steem HF19! For those of you who don't know, HF19 is an abbreviation for "Hard Fork 19" which in lay terms is basically a point in time when the block signing server operators (witnesses) reach consensus that and the blockchain should continue down the path of this new blockchain with updated features.
So what does HF19 mean for you?
Well besides some minor bug fixes, the main feature of HF19 is increased voting power for the minnows (newbies on Steem), your vote now is 4 times stronger, which means you give 4 times more to the posts and comments you vote, but on the flip side your voting power will be impacted 4 times more as well. be careful of this if you subscribe to any trails or autovoting services, @steemvoter posted about this recently on a post entitled Hardfork impact on Voting and Vote Power, I recommend you reduce your usual voting power on your trails and autobots to 1/4, so if you were voting 100%, change it to 25%.
screenshot of steemvoter.com rule at 25% voting power
If you are voting manually, you can use the vote slider to set your voting power to 25%, I don't think new users have this slider and can only vote 100%, I presume you have to have 500 SP (Steem Power) or more [citation needed]
So what if I don't take action and remain voting like I used to?
Well you end up like me, I was too busy to change my voting % so woke up this morning to find....
Lol, only 23% voting power left! Oh well I'm happy some people got benefit out of it, for the people!!!
So how much will my vote give an author?
Well... that all depends on how many people voted before you and your voting power at the time, if many people voted on the post already your vote will dramatically increase the post value. If your voting power is above 90% you will give near to the maximum amount your vote can muster, going down to 80% VP is fine too, some even say 60%.
At my 23% voting power this is what I was able to give a new author by voting 100%, here you can see the post of the author @engineernwankwo before I voted with my full 23% voting power left:
And here it is after I voted with my 54 000 Steem Power account at full power with only 23% voting power left:
Just under $15 given to the author, I would guess at 90%+ voting power I would give around $50 on a post, I guess I won't know now for a while, lol :)
All liquid rewards from this post will be going to @steempact, changing the world one post at a time!
Support P.A.L and @minnowsupport by joining their Discord group It's an amazing community.
Bless Everyone!
Sincerely,
@thecryptodrive
@steemsports CEO, @steemvoter co-owner, Steem and Peerplays Witness.
thank you!
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you are amazing
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LoLx. It just made steemit.chat to go down and Steemit itself a few hours ago.
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Lol it did yeah!
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HF19 must be the hottest topics these few days. While there are many posts about HF19 here, this one really helps me understanding more, thank you for your info, appreciate it. :)
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Same here, this post explains it better than any other I have read.
Images make it easier to understand actually, much appreciated !
Thanks for sharing @thecryptodrive !
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hot!!
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Nice design, looks nice and sporty :-)
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Great info! I am loving HF19 so far and am looking forward to digging deeper into the changes.
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Thanks for clarifying these things! All I see with HF19 is $$$ so it's nice to really know what's going on. Cheers mate!
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It's insane, i've been here for 7 days . Generated more than 240 followers and i was looking for the opportunity for so long and i just went all in , im just wanna be part of this . I've tried so mant things , I'm grateful for this hf-19 , and the right timing of starting here .
Great content! Just found you here !
Looking forward to see more😉
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Thanks my man!
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HF19 basically brings more equality to the community. It's win-win situation for both newbies and old members, Cause their followers have now more voting power.
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nice!
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Thank you for this post. Minnow/Noob here, this was very helpful.
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Thank you for breaking it down for us!!! How often does our voting % regenerate to 100%?
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Also, upvoted and resteemed :)
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I'm not 100% sure, the lower your VP the harder it is to get it back up. It could take 5 days to recharge fully from near empty.
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Ok, I guess we will have to wait and see. Mine's at about 70% so not too bad. Exciting times ahead :)
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Thank you, Ricardo! Do you know at what time the voting power gets reset?
I am in Europe - it's almost 9am but my voting power is still down from yesterday.
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Well voting power doesn't reset, it needs to rest and recover over time, so cool off on voting stuff for a while. It's like mana in a game where you use too many spells, stop casting spells and it will recover over a few days.
PS, I'm an entrepreneur myself, hit me up on steemit.chat so we can discuss business!
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Id accept your 100% vote lol 🌟🌟🌟
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Lol, come back in a while :)
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haha ill hold you too that @cryptodrive ,
I bet youd be able to single handedly get one of my posts over 100$,
breaking my all time record of 93$
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exciting!
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Thanks for the info!
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This informative post really helped me.I was searching for my voting power slider for many days lol.Thanks for the information given.
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good bet!
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Thanks for the useful info, @TheCryptoDrive! I'm really diggin' Steemit nowadays.
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hi five!
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I'm liking the changes so far. I think it's gonna be good for newbies like me :)
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Very informative. Thanks for the post
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Extraordinary @thecryptodrive, Now HF is behind us, especially for me who is very beginner in eSteem, very grateful, like HF is like giving amnesty for the prisoners who menadapat pardon ,,,,, heheheh. Thanks @thecryptodrive for your information
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Thanks for helping me understand this a little more! Resteemed!
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cheers!
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up voted, resteemed and followed :-) @thecryptodrive
Thank you for clarifying what hf19 is all about !
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Yesterday we made more money than last month! How's that?
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Damn brother!
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This is no longer true. With the new linear reward curve (can it be called a curve anymore, since it's a straight line?), you'll give the same amount to an author regardless of how many people voted before you.
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Cool thanks for teaching me something, will edit!
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hmm?
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Thanks for clearing up any problems that I had
Happy Hardfork
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happy day!
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Ok, I'll stop upvoting now, I don't want to get to 23% because my power is low and I don't want to start upvoting people with percentages of 1 cent, probably I won't vote tomorrow to get my power up to the 90's. Thanks for telling me about this.
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good call :)
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I've experience some of the same but less drastic. I had change my % voting power but I hadn't lowered them enough. I'm still readjusting a lot.
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You weren't as trigger happy as me, haha!
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Thank you for taking us to school on Hard Fork 19 I am still learning and reading what I can Your post rocks. Am following
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run run!
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Thanks for your update and for using your voting power in doing good. Mine is 12% now due to too much upvoted posts including yours @thecryptodrive aka all round good guy. Following you in order to read more from you. Lets stay in touch.
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Sweet, hit me up in Steemit.chat!
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How does it work?
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I also noticed that my vote grew from 0,10 at 100% to 1,15 at 100%. As a starter this is very good. Planning to give lots of that upvote love to my followers and to @minnowsupport. But I seem to have a hard time registering at aStreemian, dont know why.. somebody can help me out here?
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Register at https://steemvoter.com it's easier!
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thank you for this great information..
gonna change my voting power now..
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HF19 makes me feel like the sky is raining money
It made me $445 in a single minute
read the story here
I feel like the sky is raining money
HF19 update made me $445 in a minute
that makes me amazed
you can check the story here:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@hatemmkh/earned-usd445-while-making-tea-that-s-awesome
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money~~
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Thanks alot bro....was confused alot about this ....thanks again
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It was pretty exciting today to see my votes making more of an impact for the people I voted on! Still have a long ways to go here but today really opened my eyes to even bigger possibilities here at Steemit. More equality is good and to my way of thinking will create more high quality content. Thanks for this, upvoted, following and resteemed understanding so much more about how voting works!
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It was an awesome day, lot's of people must have called in sick for work! Thanks for the resteem!
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you are the best!
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I've only reduced voting power to 50% with a couple of 100% power upvotes today. I put SteemVoter on pause to do some manual curation and research how HF19 affects my vote power.
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Cool let us know what you find!
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booom!
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Hey hey!!! I gave 100% voting power to test this out and DAMN!!!!! it bumped you from 478 to 516 woah! I tried to take that back lol now your still at 516... all of the sudden Im not a fan or maybe its not working as it should. Hmm Hmm Hmmm...... How do you check the voting power % left??
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check http://steemd.com/@yourusername and look on the left hand stats. Or you can signup for https://steemvoter.com and the dashboard will show you when you click Get VP.
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Nice Nice, now that I have to conservative with my voting power I will have to be pick and choose. No more Robin Hood
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Great post, this was an awesome layout as I had some questions! Sent a follow if you want to do the same it would be appreciated. Have a great day and keep up the awesome work!
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Followed, I'm also a husband, father and nerd! Hit me up in steemit.chat!
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Much appreciated and will do! Look forward to reading more from you
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I had no clue this was coming, but I love it. Can you tell me if it changed how curation rewards work as well or are we all going to start seeing higher curation rewards now because people are getting higher post payouts? :DX
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Hi it seems that a 1% comment upvote from me at my low power gives $0.27 cents, woah. Anyway the curation rewards model hasn't been changed to my knowledge but because everyone is able to have greater influence on a post they should get more curation rewards, especially if you vote on content with less competition and you are the biggest account voting on it, you will get the larger share of the curation rewards.
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I look forward to this, seems like a wonderful update. And TY!
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Great post, looking forward to the changes.
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Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by thecryptodrive from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, and someguy123. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows and creating a social network. Please find us in the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.
If you like what we're doing please upvote this comment so we can continue to build the community account that's supporting all members.
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Good info, thanks for taking the time to clarify those things.
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Now I understand what it means.And why my posts have more power than few hours ago . Thank you so much :)
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You have to rest your vp for a while :p
Anyways, happy hardfork!
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Lol, meh I like voting people too much lool. Will go easy a bit though.
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Go through my posts sometimes :p
(Some self promotion here) haha
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Thank you for the information..but i already..knew it when it in action...Happy HF19. And also enjoyed the power.
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Happy HF19 !! :)
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thank you..have a some beer & cheers...hip..hip hurry...)
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Haha!
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:))
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Just joined today, and still trying to get my head around this new world and the dynamics of everything. This is a great start. Thanks
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Steemit hf19 is blowing up like crazy and the productivity of the platform is going sky high.
Hope it stays like this and good things come from it..
Cheers and much love from me for now.
-Goldie 🍻
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Yeah my man, what kind of alchemist you brother?
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I don't hink my rules are working. Do I need to do something to activate them? The only auto votes that occur are for steem voter post. Please help if I need to turn something on.
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Have messaged @cryptomancer for suggestions.
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Great info!Thanks For Sharing.
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Getting the hang of HF19 and thanks to you it just got way easier! You broke it down perfectly, thanks! A++
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A question please :)
I over voted on first rwo days and my Vp fell to 18... now is 45 how long it takes to be back at 100?
Thank you!
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Probably another 3 days depends on how much you use it.
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Yes thank you, kind of figured it appx... wasn't recovery faster before?
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Namasted @thecryptodrive,
That explained a lot :)
I signed up for the MinnowSupport Project today and also Steem Voter - glad that I read your post in time.
Adjusted the account as you suggested.
Cheerios :)
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Sweet great work!
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In the course of dealing with this, I spent a great deal of time wishing that there was a "reset all" function on steemvoter so that one could change all VP Rules settings with one click...I thought to discuss this with you, but steemit.chat seems to have fallen into a death spiral :-(
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Yes we want to incorporate that, including an import via .csv file. But we are still optimising our servers, and then will start with frontend features. If you have more that 30 rules we can batch update them for you.
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Sounds promising...can you tell me why one acct (emcvay)fails to implement 5% VP? I am certain there's a reason for it, but it would be nice to know so I can work around the problem.
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Hi, I don't understand the question.
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Morning! Sorry, didn't mean to confuse. The problem seems to have resolved itself - I figured you were able to sort it out.
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Unbelievable the impact of the new update.. I an new ( 5 days) it was already hard to understand the platform.. now it is even more difficult..
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Congratulations @thecryptodrive
You took 67 place in my Top 100 of posts
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I like your approach to keep explanations simple, followed!
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Upvoted, followed, and resteemed! Thanks, very informative -- today is only my fourth day here and I'm still learning...
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I am glad I found your post. Needed to understand HF19 a bit better. Thanks much
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nice picture
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Love will save the world!
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love it!
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let's go
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