For over a year I've been thinking that if you vote with less than 100% voting power you are losing money. Only today, just now, did I actually test it and see that your voting power is reduced, not by 2% flat, but by 2% times the remaining percentage of voting power you have left.
This means if you vote at 50% voting power you only lose 1%, so while your vote is only worth half as much, you're only losing half as much voting power, evening out the whole process.
This goes against a years worth of indoctrination when it comes to my voting habits.
This whole situation really just goes to show that Steem has a very high learning curve, and we are constantly talking about making the learning curve even more complex. For people who have been here for a while it makes sense, but we want to onboard millions of new users. These two mechanics don't work well together.
