Hardfork 19 has been putting a crimp in my curation and I've been vocal about seriously not liking the 100% vote strength on 10 posts limit before the vote power goes in the toilet.
Pretty much from the beginning of my Steemit history I've been saying,
"If you're not a whale, upvote 100%."
As a minnow I couldn't wait for my slider! I was rewarded with it as soon as I hit 1.00m vests... and have disliked the darned thing from that moment on.
Until HF19 came around, I maintained my voting practice of 100% on all posts. I felt like I was being a good tipper. My curation includes a read through, an upvote, and often a thoughtful comment, observation, or tip. This practice works for me!
In my hey-day, I would leave anywhere between 20-60+ comments and didn't care about vote strength because it always recovered fast enough to be worth a damn. But now? I feel like I'm wasting precious time worried about how long it's going to take my account to recover.
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It sounds like I'm talking "me, my, and mine" right? Quite selfish, you'd think.
In reality, these upvotes are a huge part of the giving/tipping economy that we've built here. Sure, I can upvote all day, every day, and completely drain my voting strength - but then an upvote would be worth $0.00.
Pardon me but that's like having a $100 bar tab and leaving the bartender a penny. Having been a waitress and bartender in the past, that is a major insult! I'd rather a patron walk out leaving nothing than scoop up their disparaging penny.
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Look, if I took the time to read your post, 99% of the time it's followed up with an upvote and comment -- and I like to tip. I don't want to tip you 10 or 20%. I want to tip you 100%. But I feel like I can't anymore and that feeling SUCKS.
I know... First world problems.
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Moving forward
FINE! HF19 is here and I may as well stop bitching about it. Time to move forward and figure out a way to stop feeling like a bad tipper. I haven't developed a strategy because I've been too busy moping but 
She started an experiment 2 weeks ago and it seems she's found a sweet spot for her voting habits.
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It will probably take about 12 hours for me to reach 100% vote power before I can begin my experiment. I will share the results in about a week. And since I have no self control over this reading/upvoting habit of mine, I've got to sign out of Steemit this evening.
Fear not!
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I'll be back.
In the meantime...
I found a really awesome blog post that explained how our reputation scores are calculated!
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Thank you 
for this post which includes easy-to-follow illustrations.
In a nutshell you need:
- Your reputation number (found in Steemd)
- Take that number and find the log10(x) of it.
- Subtract 9
- Then multiply by 9
- Then add 25.
Here's a handy log base 10 calculator.
Example:
This is my reputation number: 88,529,815,473,050
Using the calculator the log10(x) = 13.9470895589997
psst! take out the commas or the calculator doesn't work.
minus 9 = 4.9470895589997
multiplied by 9 = 44.5238060309973
plus 25 = 69.5238060309973
Rounded to the nearest 10th my rep score is 69.5 - or rounded down to the nearest integer is 69.
Have fun tracking when you hit the next rep score!
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