Steemit voting power is one of those things a new user may hear about without realizing its importance. I used to play an online game called City of Heroes. My character was a healer named Blammo! (I know, kinda strange name for a "healer") He was not built for combat, so I usually kept him in the rear and had the rest of our team come to me when they needed healing or regeneration. I had to always be careful to avoid having to give the dreaded "OOM" or Out of Mana message. The tanks and ranged characters protected me and I kept them patched up and in the fight. If anything happened to the healer the group was screwed.

High Voting Power is a very good thing

Voting power (or VP) is kind of like mana, in that you want to keep it as high as possible. At 100% each time you vote it will cost 2%. Vote 10 times and you're down to 80% VP. At that rate, it will take 24 hours to regenerate fully. So a good rule of thumb is to try to keep your voting power at 80% or higher. A good site to track your stats is steemd.com/@username (insert your Hive account@name) so ned would be: steemd.com/@ned ok?

I usually like to vote on thoughtful comments left at my posts. If you've ever left one and I didn't do so it's probably because I'm watching my Voting Power and don't want it to get so low that it'll take days to regenerate. I've seen brand-new Steemians voting over and over until their power was down to 6%, don't do that.

When your Steem Power value reaches 500, you gain access to the slider letting you choose what percentage to vote at, or you can use busy.org instead.

Now, of course, I always appreciate your support for the Hive account@evernoticethat blog. Anything we can do to help each other grow is good for us and good for Steemit. What is YOUR Voting Power? What strategy are you using to manage it effectively?