Hey, hey, it's Friday! Time for another batch of Steemians. I have to try and think of who to include each week. Today I'll look at my replies tab to see who has been leaving good comments recently. As I keep saying, it's good comments that get the rewards and the attention. I really am not that interested in 'nice post', 'I upvote and resteem'. It's about the conversations for me.
These may well be people I've featured before.
@teamhumble is a blogger, vlogger and video maker. He lives in a caravan in the UK. I met him at Steemfest and he's a lovely chap.
@dickturpin, but that was at a Linux event a few years back. He's up in the UK Midlands. He posts some funny stories of life in the IT business.
@rebeccabe is a lovely lady in the USA. We've never met, but we chat a lot on Skype. We disagree on a lot of things, but still seem to stay friends. She's more into the spiritual side of life than me. She's also learning more about photography.
@trevor.george is a chap of similar age to me in New Zealand. He's into running very long distances. I like running too, but I don't go that far.
@dailyrunner is someone I met via 
@runningproject. She really does run every day. I just can't manage that. The running community on Steemit is really growing.Please check them out and post your own suggestions. You can do your own #FollowFriday post if you like.
I wanted to say something about voting, but it's not worth a separate post. We each have our own ways of voting on Steemit and I thought I would share how I do it. This assumes you have at least a few hundred SP so that you get the voting slider. The way things work is that if you vote up to 10 times each day at 100% then your voting power will recover by the next day. New users can only vote at 100%, so they should limit their votes that won't be worth much anyway.
Once you pass the threshold you get a slider like this when you vote. Yours may not show the money amount. I use the Steemit More Info extension that adds a few things to the Steemit web interface. I understand sites like Busy may offer different features.
So you can give a vote of anything from 1% to 100%. My full vote is $1.47 according to Steem Now. That also shows my voting power. If you keep it around 80% then it can recover quickly. Note that some people are using other tools that allow them to give even smaller votes. I'm not sure what they use.
I very rarely give a 100% vote. That's saved for something really special that I want to support. In general I'll give posts up to around 30% and comments up to 20%. That allows me to votes 50 or more times each day. I like to give good comments on my posts something to encourage them to come back. If there's no sign they even read the post then they may get nothing, or even a flag if I want to deter spam. I want the best comments to appear at the top.
I also throw some small votes around to comments on other posts to move them up the list if there are currently 'nice post' comments above them. It's all about encouraging the behaviour I want to see. If you decided your own comment was worth a vote then it's likely to get less from me.
You'll note that I haven't mentioned curation rewards. That's not something I worry about too much. I rarely make more than a few Steem cents that way on anything and I'm more interested in sharing the rewards. It's important that we maximise our voting to spread the rewards as much as possible. That's partly why I have delegated around half of my SP to others for them to use. I don't really get anything from that unless they happen to vote on my stuff although some of the projects I support that way pay me a dividend. It's nothing major. Really big accounts can make serious money just from voting, but what I get isn't enough for me to expend extra effort on finding the optimal strategy.
I do cast a very few automatic votes using Steem Voter to support certain people, but most of my voting is manual. I tried some voting trails, but I found my vote was going to posts I wouldn't generally support. I realise that's a way to ensure your voting power gets used even when you are away. I may look at that again some time.
So, is this different to what you do? I welcome questions and suggestions.
Steem on!
I'm Steve, the geeky guitarist.
I'll buy guitar picks for Steem Dollars
If this post is over seven days old you can vote up one of my newer posts to reward me.
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