When I was a newbie on Hive, it took me a few weeks to realize that there is a slider on PeakD which you can use to upvote posts at 1%, since I found really great posts and wanted to upvote them even if I would not get a curation reward. 

The Hive.blog FAQ says the following:
> New users can only upvote and downvote with 100% voting strength.
>
> Once you reach about 500 Hive Power, you will see a vote slider appear when you vote. You can use the slider to adjust the weight of your vote, between 1% and 100% voting strength. Voting with less than 100% voting weight will use up less voting mana, but it will also have less of an influence on the post or comment's rewards.

I didn't realize that PeakD allows you to use the vote slider, regardless of how many HP you have (for as long as it is above zero).

Having a low HP is quiet disheartening. I never knew that my efforts to vote as little as I can gets burnt. 

Whenever I'm qualified, I do hope to make an impact with my votes. It's not easy being a new user. 

The communities have definitely made commenting easier.  You can find stuff that you are actually interested in and focus your efforts.  That will also help keep your RC's and VP in a good place while your account is small.  This was a really nice write up!

Thats the thing that new arrivals have most difficulty with, we at the terminal see that a lot, they will drain their RC with all the good intentions but forget they only have 10. We try to teach but its hard when they are just enthousiastic

Good article. Last year, thanks to the #tenkminnows project, I reached the level of "yellow fish".
I'm running a simple competition **Around The World** and the sixth round is running. If you consider it appropriate, you can recommend this competition to your "newbies". Here is a link to the current round of the competition:
https://peakd.com/aroundworld/@bucipuci/around-the-world-challenge-6

Still trying to get my head around this. To “invest” more in yourself/myself you need HP. Until now I’ve had 50/50 HBD/HP setting for rewards. I have since updated this to 100% HP. To convert my existing HBD to HP. It seems that I first need to convert this HBD to Hive, then I’m assuming I can the convert Hive to HP. Does that sound about right?

I have more than 3 years of experience and still don't know anything. I do everything on my discretion and I am happy of whatever may come lol

Informative post.I appreciate your idea of helping small accounts with HP delegations.

In life you get to meet people who are real and willing to help the Young ones grow. Sir, thanks for this post. God bless you.

Liked it. Almost felt that the whole post was trying to say something to me 😂 I learned that the hard way as I was upvoting every comment or post I see. I was comparing upvoting with social media liking, i guess, which is not exactly true and do not serve users as you mentioned. 

Hmm I never knew about this, It's good to know even for those with HP so we know not to set the value too low.

> If you make anything on your own posts and comments then power it all up to increase your vote. If you earn Hive Backed Dollars (HBD) you can convert them to **Steem** via the market or just use the Convert to Hive option that takes 3.5 days.

Also you mention steem here when I think you meant to say hive.

I think this post also touched me. So all the comments I voted ended up being burnt. This is a nice post to share with those I have brought into hive. Thanks for sharing.

I am quite also interested in this:

> If you are consistently producing good posts and have less than 500 HP I may add you to the @tenkminnows voting trail, but I am selective about this.

I just hope I am qualified enough to be selected.

I need to get more mindful of this too. Sometime I just vote as an acknowledgement that I read the post or comment. 

I'm really delighted that I've found your article! Not only that it explains them last few burning questions I've had on my mind for some time, but also the comments from other users are spot on!

I'll follow your advice and stop voting on every post I like as it will make no difference. After I distribute 0.001 which happens after just one vote, the rest are then pointless. Instead, I'll leave an appreciation and a thank you message 👍🏻

good advice :) honestly most times I don't really care, I just go with the flow

I'm happy when I find enough time to curate and in this time enough to vote..^^

@bucipuci has alerted me to your program to support new users.  What can I do to join?