RE: Crazy Dish from My Cooking Laboratory

Thank you for your comment and upvote!
But let me use this opportunity to teach you something.

Here, on Hive, posts (and comments) are actually active only the first six (6) days of their publishing.
It means the author of an article (or comment) would earn something from upvotes only inside those first six days. The same applies to curators - those who cast the upvote.

In this concrete case, you've upvoted my above post, which is actually a four (4) months old article. By upvoting such an old article, you didn't do anything dramatically wrong, but neither you nor I would earn something from your upvote, while at the same time, it was, unfortunately, a wasted (up)vote for you.

Why wasted upvote?
Whenever we give an upvote (assuming it's 100% upvote - what I would advise you give at least until you'll have 500 HP in your account stake), we lose 2% of our upvoting strength (power).
This means that if you start your day with 100 voting power (voting power is a different thing than Hive Power (HP)) by first giving upvote, your VP (voting power) would decrease to 98%.

• The second upvote would decrease your VP by another 2%, making you end up at 96.04% VP.
• The third upvote decreases your VP again by an additional 2%, making you end up at 94.1192% VP, and so on.

The Voting Power regenerates itself by 20% within 24 hours. Therefore, it's advisable not to drain your VP below 80%.
At the same time, that means that you actually have available 10 upvotes per day when given at 100% of your strength.

The thing with the old posts and comments (7 days old or older) is that although you, as the curator (the one who gave the vote), or the author who receives it wouldn't earn anything, that vote would reduce your VP by 2% anyway. - And that's why your vote on my above post is wasted.

Therefore, to make a long story short, my advice to you is the following.

• Check the age of every article and comment before you are going to upvote it! - Everything inside 1 second and 6 days is good to go.
  You will find at the end of every article and comment how old it is! Take a closer look, and you'll find it.
• Until you collect at least 500 HP in your account, upvote posts with 100% of your strength, (and for now, avoid upvoting comments, as those upvotes may easily end up wasted as well because of so-called Hive Dust, which is the entire another story.)

Apart from all the above, and if you are looking for a really interesting and tasteful salad, I would suggest you to try (rather than the above one) the following one that I call Spanish Salad.

You may leave a comment there, but don't upvote that recipe post, as it's 6 years old! 😉