If you don't know what delegation is it's a way to let others use your Steem Power. It's quite possible that you don't vote as much as you could and you would like to help more good content than you have time to look at. If you know of some minnows who are active then you can let then use part of your SP. That may be enough to get them the 'slider' to make more, small votes.
You can also delegate to accounts such as @utopian-io or @isotonic that will pay you something for it. You may know I'm not a fan of 'voting bots' that give massive votes, but there are smaller ones that can give minnows a boost without flooding the trending page with junk.
There are also some accounts you can delegate to that will flag some of the posts that abuse the Steemit platform by plundering the reward pool.
Getting paid for doing this is not my priority. I want to help people spread the votes so that the rewards do not just go to a chosen few.
So how can I delegate Steve?
I'm glad you asked. I've been through various methods. I used the Vessel app, but the delegation option stopped working for unknown reasons. I've also got a Python script that can do it, but that's too technical for most people. The solution that's working for me now is @steem-plus that I have previously written about. This is just one of many features it adds to the Steemit site.
Clicking that button gives you this screen where you can enter an amount in Steem.
It uses Steemconnect to authorise this action as it needs your Active key. Whoever you give it to gains the equivalent extra voting/flagging power. You can get it back any time, but it takes seven days to get back to you to prevent double voting.
I feel this is one of the most underrated feature of Steemit. I've got a nice amount of SP that I don't intend to power down and I want it doing good. Steem Plus makes it easy to do.
I have already delegated over half my SP. I assess that once in a while. If someone has built up a lot of their own or is not active then I may take it back. I am very selective in who I give it to.
Please feel free to ask me questions and I'll try to help.
Steem on!
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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