I'm going to write a series of things I've learned here... as I learn them. I will keep them short and to the point to not waste too much of anyone's time. They are obviously meant for the new people because frankly they (like me) probably jumped in and have to learn on the fly.

-If you have any questions about what I discuss, ask them in the comment section below

-If you like what I talked about and think your followers would like to learn from it, "RESTEEM" it.
(note: you don't get paid to resteem something, you just help to spread around a message that you like)

-If you have another topic you would like me to cover next, then also reply that request in the comment section

Here goes:

Upvoting And How To Follow Your Voting Power

The first thing I noticed was that my upvoting seemed to be useless after the first few upvotes. It seemed like I voted a lot and while the first few showed up as a penny ($0.01), almost all of them after that were never affecting the amounts.

I just kept upvoting and upvoting figuring it would fix itself as time went.

After awhile I learned that your voting is limited and controlled through something called "Voting Power" (see pic below). Essentially what that means is that you get your voting power reduced by about 1% for every vote you make (for now at least, as you are small). So if you upvoted 100 people in one day, you would be completely out of power and would have to wait to "recharge your power"

Recharging Your Power

Recharging your power is actually something rather simple, it just means: stopping voting while your "power meter" gains. It gains about 20% of its strength back automatically each day. (Note: that means it will take you 5 days of "not voting" to get back to where you started if you let it run completely down). Which of course I did, and I gotta tell you is hard to not upvote people on this site ;)

Finding Your Power Meter

You can find your "voting power meter" at the following site:

www.steemd.com/@(yourusername)

My example: www.steemd.com/@davemccoy
(of course you will want to look your own voting power so insert YOUR USERNAME after the @ sign)

This site can tell you many interesting things about your account, but for now I believe the most useful feature is to help you "regulate" your voting power.

This is just one tip of something I have learned in my first 7 days. I have many more things I've learned and if people seem to find it interesting, then I will continue to prepare more of these tips that I find. It is up to you in the community to let me know if it is useful.

I want to point out that I am by no means and expert and I am just offering my humble advice based on what I have learned. If any more experienced users have more to add, I welcome them to do so and help everyone out!

Thanks for reading and I hope I can help a few people along the way :)