This is becoming a big issue. An friend of mine started with a delegation of 74 steem and was find until at 4 days it dropped to 4 steem. Now he is unable to do anything. We need to make sure that we are expandable as a community otherwise people are unlikely to want to join. Is there a way to make new user purchase steem to create a new account?
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This is exactly what happened to me today! My Steem Power - the figure in brackets, like (72.5) - has since joining been about 72, this morning I noticed it was down to (4)! I had to increase my voting power back to 100% just to vote.
Is this part of the reset to linear power? If so, someone has to recalc the maths! I wasted ages checking if had been flagged then searched for an answer before posting.
It is unrelated to the reset to linear power. Steemit was just reclaiming delegated SP that was not required to keep the account running. There was a mis-calculation though, and it turns out they needed to leave a bit more than they did. I topped you off to above 10, so you should be good now as far as bandwidth is concerned.
@timcliff very kind of you, thanks very much!
I had a look at my wallet and no sign of a transfer, so you have the authority to add to my delegated power but I cannot pay you back in the future, or it is auto done at some point. Seems like a lot of you are helping out us newbies before there is an official reset. Just curious as to what happens under the hood! hanks again!
Technically any user can delegate SP to another user, but there isn't a way to do it through the UI. It also doesn't show up in your transfers on steemit.com, but if you go to https://steemd.com/@rycharde it will show you the full history of your account (including the delegation). No need to pay me back. Eventually (once you earn more SP on your own and no longer need it) I will just remove the delegation.
Ahhh. that's why it's called delegated! Thanks again
@vot had the same issue. Dropped from 74 to 4. I dont know why.
There is a way to do that (through AnonSteem or SteemConnect) but I don't think we want to go down the path of having new users buy their way in to having an account. DM me your friend's account name on steemit.chat and I'll delegate him/her a few more SP when I get home tonight.
Your right about that though. Its not a good idea asking or expecting people to pay. But there has to be a better way of fixing this scaling issue. Because i think that is exactly what it is. I really think that maybe have a scale for waiting times for voting,comments etc on new accounts might be realistic. It would tame those accounts until they have more vests.