Now THAT is worth an upvote... as a newbie myself here, I've (inadvertently) almost committed several of the sins you mentioned... in fact I didn't know that I LOST steem power when upvoting, and went way over the 10/day limit within my first few minutes, thinking I was actually just being a good Samaritan.
hahaha... that's what they call "school fees" I guess.
Ok... so I can't upvote your comment???? The little spinny disc timer thing just keeps spinning?!?
... is there anywhere I can see how many upvotes I've used up today, without going to somewhere like steemd and checking manually?
P.S. Sorry for splitting questions up into 3... they came to me after I'd posted each one :p
P.P.S. I see you're from SA... Hi there from Pretoria.
General rule of thumb for newbies is 10 in a 24-hour period. If you have more SP you are able to split your votes. each vote depletes VP by 2%. VP regenerates hourly, I forget by how much but it takes 24hrs to regenerate from 80% to 100% which is 10 votes. Everyone makes that mistake in the beginning
Hello from Jozi :)
Yeah, thanks... learned that lesson already :-)
P.S. Is there anywhere I can see how many upvotes I've already given out in the last 24 hours (other than manually scanning through data on sites like steemd?)
No. Save this URL somewhere - https://steemblockexplorer.com/@braaiboy
Don't vote on posts older than 7 days, the payout period has passed
... even if it's a really good comment/post, and I'm just feeling generous?
Don't authors (posts and comments) still get $ up until 30 days after?
You can find recent posts by the author and upvote those posts. Or if you find any comments by the author in the post that are recent you can upvote those comments.
No, they don't get paid after 7 days. If you vote, you are just wasting it