Hi @summisimeon,

Good question 😊, SmartVote is encouraging the daily creation of good content on the platform to add value to it and sustaining it for the long term. If you don't post today, you loose the upvote. However, we have couple of alternatives in place in order to mitigate the situation:

1. If you don't have a post today, we will upvote one of your comments if it meets our criteria of at least 10 words and is related to the post you are commenting on.
2. If you happen to take a break (going on holidays, sick etc...) you can use our Account Modes tool to switch to daily payout and receive STEEM in your wallet instead of upvotes. However, because we want encourage more of content writing we will soon limit this feature to only 60 consecutive days with a 30-days cooling period between each.

I hope this answers your question.