It's confusing and complicated when one tries to take it all in at once. I've been around so long I've been afforded the luxury of simply following the story as it develops. I know the people and their projects.

You're right about scams. You won't see a crypto scam 'trending' here though. The community will swarm it and expose everything. There's no free lunch around here. Phishing is something you need to be wary of. Keep your keys safe.

Delegating is relatively simple and secure. Someone delegated 50 Hive to your account. That's not your money they're just letting you use it so you have resource credits and they can take it away at any moment. That curator bot I mentioned. I found out about that because I followed someone years ago, I know them, and one day they wrote a post talking about 'Meow Curator', so I followed the steps.

I've delegated tokens to noobs before but stopped doing that because they'd often post a couple times, then vanish. So I'd pull the delegation and then they suddenly show up again. Or on another occasion I hooked someone up like I did here with you, plus delegated some HP. They took what they earned and frickin sold it. Instead of powering up their earnings so I could take the training wheels off. Still, I wasn't out any money.

There's one case a whale delegated a massive amount of stake to a member. That member, rather than using the earned curation rewards to help build and fund a community, used the money to enrich himself with Splinterlands. So yeah, people get burned. Try to help and get taken advantage of.

As for recharging. Visit your page on Peakd, hover your mouse over the 'i' next to your name and reputation score. A tooltip pops up and gives you that information. Also on PeakD hover over your name, top right corner. Blue bar goes down with each vote. Red bar is for downvotes. Downvotes trigger people. Be very careful with those. Downvotes remove rewards.

Because I have something like 50k HP, my vote is worth about four bucks. If the value of Hive goes up, the value of my vote goes up. Value goes down, so does the value of the vote. Still gives out the same amount of tokens regardless. As I mentioned, we all get about 10 full 100% votes to use in a day. If I use the slider and knock it down to 50%, I then get to use 20 votes worth 2 bucks instead of 10 votes worth four bucks. If you just want to 'like' something, you can slide that right down to 1% and you won't burn through voting power. But even my 1% vote is worth 4 cents. Because your HP is so low, your full 100% vote is worth half a penny. I enjoy upvoting comments but I can afford to. Plus that's like a way for me to pay myself for the time I spent, and of course compensate whoever else for their time.

Your posts will pay out after seven days. You'll receive half. The other half goes to those who voted. Those with more HP get a larger portion, those with less HP get less, but the percentage remains the same across the board.

As for the other stuff you said. Google NoNamesLeftToUse. Leads to me. Even the images, for the most part near the top at least, all mine. This brand or entity is Hive exclusive. The platform is quite powerful on its own. There are plenty of people who post here, there, and everywhere though. You're free to do whatever the hell you want with your content here. It's yours. You own it. Your account is also locked and can never be removed. You own that, too.