- If a post receives more upvotes, the estimated payment may increase (depends on the power provided by each new upvote given).
- If a post receives more downvotes (tool that can give witnesses and accounts of high power in the network), the estimated payment of your post will decrease (now I feel that good users have given me downvotes panic).
- If other posts receive more Upvotes, the estimated payment of your post may decrease.
- If other posts receive more downvotes, the estimated payment of your post may increase.
- If upvotes that were given to you are removed from the post, the estimated payment could go down.
- If given downvotes are eliminated, the estimated payment could increase.
- THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: If the price of the STEEM cryptomoney increases, without doubt your potential or estimated payment will increase as well.
- THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: On the other hand, if the price of the STEEM cryptocurrency decreases in value, your potential or estimated payment will also decrease. This is a phenomenon that has been experienced throughout the week and that started from last weekend (important data for those new users who had not experienced these drops in the currencies).
On the other hand
and I think that this may be the most significant cause, if a user who gave you Upvote is going through PowerDown, when the scheduled PowerDown is made, that user will lose their voting power and therefore, all their votes will not add up. same amount of money as before. There are numerous users in the network of high voting power (as they are called here whales) that when they give a vote to our post can reach from 20 to 30 $ of rewards. However one with reviewing the wallet of these users (remember that the wallets are public) we can realize that the majority is going through PowerDown processes:
I hope it has been helpful