but one thing I can't quite figure out still is this 100% upvote business. I am not displayed any options to change my voting percentage and am curious how to do so.
Oh, sorry for that one, I didn't think of it: the possibility to give fractions of votes is a privilege for those having significant amounts of steem power. Actually the whole article is quite much dedicated to people having some steem power ... it doesn't really matter that much how you vote when having really insignificant steem power.
Ah interesting, so I can vote on everything and all of them are considered 100% upvotes? And my voting power doesn't go down with each vote? Thanks for any info!
100% does not mean "100% voting power", but 100% of your available voting power. The available voting power is reduced with 2% for every vote cast, if I remember right (and that's 2% of the available voting power - so if the available voting power is 50%, it will go down to 49%, not 48%).
Ah ok thanks. Makes sense in this money based platform.