There is something not every body seems to know.  You can hover at a lower VP with the advantage of being able of have double, triple or quadruple amount of full votes every day.  Off course they have less value but at least, you don't have to play with the percentage slider and your receiver sees a FULL vote which earns you the status of a much respected reader or fan :-)

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This is Sharon @fitinfun on my other blog when I saw this. I have been working all the questions you talk about for a year and a half. I agree with most of what you say EXCEPT -

Set your limit higher. 65% is no good. 80% is better; I use 90%.

The reason for this is that you are "shooting blanks" the lower you go. The higher you go, the more you can reduce your percentages and still give the same $0.00 vote. It is much more effective in the long run - and short term. 

The easiest way to do this is to "not vote" for 24-48 hours. No one will die without you for that short time and you will have less stress. I do it at night sometimes since I will not lose my self votes that way.

Do this now, and anytime you fall below your limit. If you set 80% as your limit, do not vote again until you get to 90% and then see how you do for a few days or weeks. My experiences tell me you will have much less heartburn. 

As to self-voting, RuPual has some words for you:

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Also, I am not trying to spam up your post, but I write minnow tips and here are two old posts of mine that might help. 

[Who is on My Steemdunk?](https://steemit.com/steemdunk/@fitinfun/who-is-on-my-steemdunk-and-a-giveaway)

I use free steemdunk for autovoting that has 20 people only on it. My vote is much smaller than yours, so this is enough. For YOU - you could use it for "rookies" when you first add them. It's easier to use and then you could play around with percentages easily before transferring them to your main autovoter.

[Does it Matter if you Vote with Low Power on the STEEM Blockchain?](https://steemit.com/dtube/@fitinfun/qviskf6v)

Yes it does, says fitinfun, lol.

I found your post @theluvbug. Great to see you on that wonderful initiative.

I'm totally with you on voting, in an ideal world we would all have time to just manually curate..but real life dictates that some times you just can't be hunting out posts to upvote - and if your Vote Power sits for any time at 100% unused then it's basically just wasted. So autovoting with something like SteemAuto just makes sure when you can't use your Proof of Brain - at least the system which - let's face it - you tell it the accounts you know produce good content you like - so it's automatically using your proof of brain to reward the content you know you like - and often I try to go back to the posts I have autovoted on and comment on them.

Delegation is a delicate balance - it helps the groups or people you delegate to - but sucks your own upvote - which is why I end up paying out each month for delegated Steem Power - to cover the the Steem Power I delegate back out and keep my upvote reasonable - it makes no financial sense but I like supporting people and communities in any way I can.

I quite auto voting some time ago, bizarrely my autovote of a trail sometimes picks me up and votes my post for me - but other then that I keep my upvote to reward the content I like. Personally though I don't see the problem in self voting - it's your investment use it. 

It's still all about people and community, and as long as you are active with both then everything is good.

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Using curation trail drain your voting power, it is good to set the proper parameter in place. It is good that you start to delegate toward project your enjoy. :)

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Ultimately, my plan is to delegate half my steem power. Right now I'm delegating about 500sp. So far, I mostly delegate to dapps that I use. I haven't used autovoting in quite some time but at some point I will probably get back to that for some of my voting.

Howdy sir blewitt! I love this kind of post because it makes people think and also the comments created are really informative so great job!

Really good info, and I didn't realize how much I don't know about delegating!  I'll have to do some more research....

Thank you for this articule, I have the same issue About the management of my sp thank you!!

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Yea this is a huge struggle all the time as I see so many who I would like to upvote but I just dont have the SP yet to upvote all those who also support me. But @blewitt I am enjoying growing and being able to give more and more back, basically the way I see it we all grow if we keep on supporting each other, which is something I find many people on here still dont seem to understand about Steemit, but really a team effort goes along way here.

>I also do self vote. I know some frown upon it 

You have piled a load of cash into this, same as me.. I dont see a problem, but not on self-comments. Thats my line.

It's really good to rethink your VP from time to time indeed. I've recently gotten people *off* the autovote again since sometimes I don't like the low percentages I'm giving out and would love to just give the percentage I think the post deserves. But I've done it all: full manual, full auto... And I'm still changing habits from time to time, even after a year of being here. 

I'm on your Helpie trail vote by the way which gives me 0.001 each time :') Votes are the worst for VP plus I don't feel like I have enough control over who I'm voting for. I'd rather delegate to communities I support so they can vote on *all* the members, plus add a random upvote myself to content within the community I value myself. 

Anyway, many many ways to do things. Love that you're setting an Orca goal for yourself - I'm nowhere close to that myself :D Cheers!

Delegating is also a good way to help give people you have onboarded a boost until they find their feet.  Another one I like to use is the Beneficiary feature on @Steempeak.

I used to use auto voting and curation trails, but it's all manual these days. I found the trails were voting up some posts I didn't really want to support. I manage to use up my votes and my voting power is often lower than I really want, but I can live with that. I don't self vote. That's just my personal choice. If you have bought your Steem then you deserve a decent return and you are not abusing it. 

I delegate about half my Steem. There are so many cool people and projects that can make good use of it. I can manage with less curation rewards. We each have our own strategy. 

Keep on doing good stuff. We need more like you.

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