I've been having the same problem as you, and found the same response. But....even after having powered up my bandwidth continued dropping. It actually dropped from 5% to -140% within 30mins of powering up...how did this happen??? Bandwidth is calculated as a weekly average. That would also explain why you didn't have any bandwidth even after having not posted for 6 days. On top of that, commenting, voting, redeeming rewards, and loading pages all uses up bandwidth...
But your recommendation is spot on, produce less content but better quality! :)
Good luck finding the right balance ;) Thanks for your post.
I'm a bit late in replying to you. Same problem, bandwidth exceeded. Had to wait a while. That really shouldn't happen after powering up, I mean the bandwidth dropping after 30 mins. Is there a plumber in the Steemit platform we can call to fix the leak? While we're at it, how did you find out about the 5% bandwidth? Is there a link to this?
Thanks for stopping by to read this post. Might be a long ways to go in the quest for the right balance. I just hope we find it in Steemit and not elsewhere.
Haha no worries, we're all in the same boat on this (or leaking pipe?? ;) I think this place has the potential, I haven't seen an internet platform that has such a dedicated community and rules to enforce what people want! Keep the quality posts coming and I'm sure we'll get there eventually! We've just got to make sure we don't let advertising etc. come in and turn this into another fartbook!
You can see your bandwidth and voting power here: https://www.steemd.com/@username (put your name there)
Thanks @pv-p. Will check the link.