thanks, this is only the intro. steemit blows ass, so i have to break it into a three part presentation.
im still trying to figure all this monetized platform stuff out, and its very confusing and discouraging, to be honest. stuff like steem power? and upvote power?? what does that even mean? i dont have the time or energy to put all my time reading every blog about how steemit works, i got more important stuff to work on and study. so im not sure if i can "afford to upvote peoples posts and comments. I WOULD and i WANT TO upvote all that i genuinely like, but dont know how the whole power thing works. nor do i care to study it.
but just posted part 2 also. then part 3 will follow. part 3 is the very contraversial aspects of what impact endocrine toxicology and animal foods play on population gendercide and the trans explosion. peace and wisdom! <3
I don't think you spend money to up vote peoples posts. It's possible but that requires more reading on my end as well.
I'm not too sure if STEEM POWER comes out of your account
STEEM POWER is more like "account power" that can be converted into STEEM to cash out, or you can buy STEEM and convert it into STEEM POWER to give your account more control over curation rewards causing up-votes to give more curation to the author, or down-votes to take more rewards from anothers post.
I think the longer you hold onto STEEM POWER it gives your account more power.
And STEEM DOLLARS I think can appreciate in value and might also be affected in some way by STEEM POWER but I don't know exactly how it works.
I also think that up-voting other peoples content can lead to giving you some rewards as well.
Upvoting costs you nothing. It's how you rewards others for their content. The value of your upvote is based on how much steem power you have. Voting power is a lot like a fuel gage for your upvote value. So if your VP is at 100% that means your upvote pays the max amount that your upvote is worth. Your VP goes down the more you upvote. When you are not upvoting, your VP will go back to 100% over time. Make sense?