Today was pretty much my first day really going through the platform as I made a decent buy of steem tokens on exchange and wanted to check out the platform a lot closer. I’m not sure how the mechanics of turning the upvote into currency happens, but I assume it’s related to steem power. I transferred a few steem to power up my steem power but I literally haven’t been able to find a good post explaining how it all works and the ones that pop in a search are all from 2 years ago and it appears many things have changed. If you could point me to any other posts for noobs it would be appreciated. I didn’t realize their were spam bots but reading through you post here, I see there are a lot around. Every time I saw the “nice post” or something pretty generic, I thought it was just foreign speakers not able to express theselves but likely not.

If you don’t mind a question, as a noob, other than what you posted here, is there anything else I should be doing such as do I upvote everything I like or do I need to be very selective? How much steem power do I need to really be supporting platform? Sorry if these are painfully generic questions.