tl;dr: You authorize minnow swarm to to vote for your account when your account hasnt been voting, you dont need to operate it, it sleeps when you use the network.
Find out how to join here: https://som.lan.247420.xyz
What does it do??
on hive, you cant have more than 100% voting power. it waits till that point, then votes other members of the group to prevent that waste.
how is this determined
the person with an available post whos voted the most and received the least gets the next vote, if you post every so often you should be able to get what you can get from it. it will slow down when youre overpaid and speed up otherwise, ot makes a best effort to keep you on track numerically with the other users so all you have to do to catch up with votes is keep posting.
as your account grows, so will the votes you receive
How do I join?
minnow swarm uses ordinary hive authentication mechanisms, the trigger pages that calls the authentication mechanisms are opensourced and easy to inspect, you are free to leave at any time, if you have any problems we also have a very active community that have always provent to be helpful
you can also sign voting auth to 
Find out how to join here: https://som.lan.247420.xyz
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