A good question @karlvillem. I think you mean "brackets" or something that looks like this...
(+14.510 STEEM)
This is called "delegated" Steem. Delegation is Steem that has been donated to you to make your upvote stronger. Steemit Inc. (the company behind Steemit.com) delegates Steem to new users so that they can upvote and generate posts and comments. That kickstarter amount will be taken away after a while, and once you've accumulated more Steem Power.
This is one of the coolest and most empowering parts of the Steem blockchain. People can lend one another upvoting strength :)
Why is it that when you start getting Steem Power, Steemit starts taking it away rapidly? They cut my SP in half in one day, and now have been adjust my steem so that whenever I get more, they lower me back down to 15 SP total. Couldn't they slowly remove it so it at least feels like I'm making progress?
As the number of Steemit users increased, the number of SPs delegated to the beginning decreased. It is now delegated that the delegation offsets the total value to 15SP. The delegation is removed to anyone who gets 15 or more of their own SP.
We are now at a time when we can quite easily acquire SP. When the price of SBD drops again, we will gain SP with more difficulty. If the STEEM price does not drops.
Thanks for the info. When I started in late December I got 27 SP delegated to me, so it was frustrating that as soon as I started making my own I was dropped to 15SP. I wonder if there's a way to change the system so that if the delegated amount is 15, that you have it taken away on a 1-2 basis when you get more SP? In other words, you would only lose 1 delegated SP for every 2 SP you earned on your own until the delegation was gone. This would be less punitive.
A good question @karlvillem. I think you mean "brackets" or something that looks like this...
(+14.510 STEEM)This is called "delegated" Steem. Delegation is Steem that has been donated to you to make your upvote stronger. Steemit Inc. (the company behind Steemit.com) delegates Steem to new users so that they can upvote and generate posts and comments. That kickstarter amount will be taken away after a while, and once you've accumulated more Steem Power.
This is one of the coolest and most empowering parts of the Steem blockchain. People can lend one another upvoting strength :)
Why is it that when you start getting Steem Power, Steemit starts taking it away rapidly? They cut my SP in half in one day, and now have been adjust my steem so that whenever I get more, they lower me back down to 15 SP total. Couldn't they slowly remove it so it at least feels like I'm making progress?
As the number of Steemit users increased, the number of SPs delegated to the beginning decreased. It is now delegated that the delegation offsets the total value to 15SP. The delegation is removed to anyone who gets 15 or more of their own SP.
We are now at a time when we can quite easily acquire SP. When the price of SBD drops again, we will gain SP with more difficulty. If the STEEM price does not drops.
Thanks for the info. When I started in late December I got 27 SP delegated to me, so it was frustrating that as soon as I started making my own I was dropped to 15SP. I wonder if there's a way to change the system so that if the delegated amount is 15, that you have it taken away on a 1-2 basis when you get more SP? In other words, you would only lose 1 delegated SP for every 2 SP you earned on your own until the delegation was gone. This would be less punitive.