hey @alecreed how are you? I seen your upvote but it carried no weight which actually uses your bandwidth. Im new here but for the last 4 weeks ive done nothing but study and get with some smart people. My advise whilst you are at almost the same rep as me is only upvote 10 times in a 24 hour period. I have a few blogs i have done recently that explain some of the stuff that you might not have been taught yet bro but here is a tool you would benefit from from https://www.steemworld.org/@yourusename this will show you when your vote power has gone below 0.001. Im guessing if you allow your voting power to drop below 80% your vote loses value. My profile has my FB link you are welcome to send me a friend request just trying to look out for the newbies :)