Yesterday was fun. The drinks were flowing. Our upvotes were worth so much. Everyone was in a good mood. So what did we do? We partied. Upvotes flew back and forth. You upvoted post after post. You laughed at the comments you got and clicked upvote on each of them. You thought you were invincible. We all did. And now... You have woken up with little to no voting power. Where did it go? Like your weekly paycheck, how did I spend it so fast? You scroll through the comments and posts that you liked. Half of them don't even make any sense. Why did you like a post on clowns, you do not even like clowns. This comment was only a smiley face. You make a post and upvote yourself but what is the point, your voting power, for today, is 21%
Welcome to the hangover. Who else is feeling the effects? If you ignored the fact that your votes powered down faster, voted more because you were excited or wanted to do different tests to see the results, odds are you are sitting at a lower voting power percentage than you are used to. Personally I am at, around 68%, which sucks for me. I might have to turn my bots off for a day. I am usually off on the weekend, so I can charge it back then. But today will be sluggish, like I had one too many the night before.
From what I read your voting power takes 5 days to fully recharge. If that is the case it will go up about 20% a day if you do nothing. So if you are low, do not worry, give it a day or two to get back to a level you are happy with. Before I was usually in the 90% plus range and I use the site a lot.
Where is your voting power?
*my upvotes/rep disclaimer: https://steemit.com/steemit/@whatageek/my-steemit-account-where-i-stand-on-bots-self-votes-and-multiple-account