Your welcome, and basically... yes, vote value will increase or decrease in step with changes in Steem value and your understanding of how that would increase the SBD rewards is correct.
The only thing to note is that no ones votes have a “set” value. Voting steers the reward pool, so your votes are always influenced by what everyone else is doing! For instance, if the weekly rewards pool was $100,000 and for some bizarre reason no one voted but you... you would have a $100,000 vote!
If many people who have been inactive start voting you can see your vote value decrease. If whales abstain from voting or are embroiled in a major flag war you can see your vote value increase... all with no change in the underlying Steem value.
Got it, thank you very much. But does the SBD price also have an influence on the vote value? Or is all that matters the steem inflation, while SBD inflation is a separete account? Sorry for keeping asking ;-.)
Lets say there is a total reward pool of 100,000 Steem and the Steem Price is at 4 USD. What would the total vote value be in this scenario. Doing a reverse calculation I would guess that it could look like this:
The 100,000 Steem will be used for 50% of the author rewards value (75% of the vote value) and for 100% of the curation rewards value. So for a 1$ vote, 0,375 USD worth of Steem plus 0,25 USD worth of Steem for curation would be issued. So in total 0,625 USD in Steem. At 4 USD per Steem this would equal 0,15625 new Steem.
Considering that we have assumed total Steem available for votes is 100,000, this would mean that the the total vote value available for Steem would 640,000. Considering that Steem amounts for 62.5% of the total rewards, the total vote value might be around 1.024m (640,000 / 0,625).
This is purely based on what I think it would make sense to calculate it in order to make sure that the right amount of Steem is issued. It could be completely wrong, I simply do not know it but I would be highly interested if this goes in the right direction. And srry again for asking, but I think it might be interesting also for others.