I am a fairly new user and generally spend my time up-voting great posts and commenting to learn and get to know other users. I rarely up-vote myself. In a post earlier today, @orionschariot provided an example of splitting voting power between yourself and other users detailing the financial return on an investment in Steem Power. I have quoted his example below. Is his example correct? If so, Steem Power is about to become a very popular asset to own.
Example by @orionschariot:
"Here’s a brief example to show the power of holding Steem Power since HF 19.
You have an account of 1500 Steem per se and hold it all in Steem Power. With the current Steem price being $2.20, that makes your account value in USD $3300. That should roughly give you an upvote of around $1.50. So for examples sake, let’s say you upvote every day until your voting power gets down to 80% and then call it a day, let your voting power regenerate and start up again tomorrow.
Using these numbers you’d be able to give out $15.00 per day.
15 --100% upvotes (costing 2% per vote) = $15.00
Let’s say you split your upvotes at 50% for upvoting others and 50% for upvoting yourself.
$15.00 per day
$7.50 per day you’re upvoting your self and $7.50 per day for others
$7.50 per day times 7 days = $52.50 per week for yourself & for others
$52.50 times 52 weeks = $2,730 per year for yourself & for others
You started with 1500 Steem worth $3,300
After one year your account is worth$6,030
That is 83% ROI and I haven’t even figured in 1 penny of author or curation rewards nor the price of Steem increasing.
Just let that sink in for a minute."
If the example is correct, we should all be loving our steem power and carefully considering our voting balance between our own short term self interest in voting for ourselves and the long term self interest of seeing Steemit as a platform proceed with healthy growth. Too much self-voting and you could kill the golden goose by not rewarding good content and discouraging new users.
Let me know your thoughts please.