It's amazing how your mindset changes the longer you are on this crypto journey....
When I first came on chain, here's what I was taught:
Never let your voting mana go beneath 80%
And It wasn't a rule that was set in stone. It just seemed to be what everyone recommended.
Why?
Because it takes 24 hours to get 20% back. So if you kept it around 85 to 90% or so, you would be at around 100% or full voting power within the next 24 hours or so. That's of course given you didn't vote anyone else. So the 85-90% allowed for you to still get some votes in if you wanted.
And this is literally how I have treated my voting mana on the blockchain....
It gets even trickier when you factor in different tribes and community tokens. Take for example $LEO I have forever kept my voting of Threads to around 10% per upvote and while that distributes LEO it also distributes $HIVE as well.
I won't even begin to describe how it all works, because I'm an idiot and not that smart. But one of the coolest features within the backend of InLEO is the ability to choose what you want your votes to be, specifically for Threads. Which, is where I do most of my engagement and curating.
And like I mentioned....It's been sitting at 10% for quite sometime now.
Welp...I increased my votes to 20% tonight and think I'll keep it around here for the foreseeable future.
Why?
Won't this drain your voting power?
O.K., let me just say....I don't plan on voting until I have 0% left to give out. However, I'm a big believer in the entire premise that distribution of these tokens is critical for everyone to win. So I'm not going to guard my voting power like it's some treasure that I'll lose forever.
Heck, I get 20% of it back every 24 hours lol
So it's mine to dish out how I see fit and welp.....Threads will be getting a lot more votes from yours truly.
Hey look, I'm no whale. Far from it. But I do believe that this is the culture that has developed in LEO. It's not 'hold onto your precious tokens and never let anyone else eat' here...Nah, I think the DNA of LEO is to spread this stuff out as much as we can as community members. And fanboys and girls of this project!
Again....I'm not a whale. So when you get a vote from me, it's hardly going to change your life. However if we all kept this same energy, across not only LEO but also HIVE...Imagine the thriving community we would have. Everyone wins!!!
That's the unrealized power of this blockchain and all the communities it has.
Go play with your voting power in your dashboard on InLEO and see what you can do to spread the tokens out more :)