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## Supporting The Family
<div class="text-justify">I am strongly encouraging people to get on the curation trail <a href="https://steemauto.com/dash.php?i=1&trail=thealliance" >we have set up on Steem Auto</a>. This way, when you may miss one of our kin's great posts, you can still show your love for them. I know it may be a new concept for people and we are always learning new ways to go about this whole STeeMiNG oN thing. I even learned a few new things  about Steem Auto today! Let me tell you about some of them and their reference to our curation trail.</div>

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## The Way I Understand It
<div class="text-justify">It is not as simple as just putting a percentage in and saying ya I'll follow these guys' votes. There are actually <i>multiple ways</i> you can follow our trail. As Steem Auto grows and makes it's changes, so must we adapt to those changes. It wasn't even working earlier this week, so I am glad they have ironed everything out. There are three main points I want to get across and their impacts:</div>

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## 1) Variations of Trails
## 2) Fanbase
## 3) Manual Curation

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## 2 Ways to Follow
<div class="text-justify">One is called <b>FIXED</b> and the other is called <b>SCALED</b>. A fixed follow vote means that regardless what percentage the vote weight is I give someone, your vote will always be 'fixed' at a certain percentage. If you go this route, I average roughly 200 votes per day so somewhere in the range of 2-10% depending on how much you do in manual curation, should keep you above 80% VP (voting power). 'Scaled' voting (is what I recommend) is where you vote a percentage of my vote. If you 'scaled' your vote at 100%, you would stay comfortably within the 80-90% VP range and have plenty to still hand out some other 100% upvotes to various people. Those that do a LOT of manual curation, I suggest starting at around 50% and adjust it as you feel necessary.
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## Fanbase
<div class="text-justify">This is different than following someone else's votes. This is the same thing as an autovoter. If you become someone's fan, you can dictate a voting weight that you choose to vote on that specific person/account every time they make a post. Great way not to miss someone you love that isn't a family member!</div>

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## Manual Curation
<div class="text-justify">What the heck is that anyway? It's when you, yourself, actually tap that arrow to reward them for their efforts and decide (if you have 500 SP and a slider) how much of your vote you want to give them. We have several heavy and talented manual curators in our family and I learned that if you <i>are</i> on the trail, and you vote manually prior to me, Steem Auto <b>will NOT</b> remove your manual curation vote.</div>

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## In Conclusion
<div class="text-justify">The reason this was brought up is I was noticing quite a few iddy bitty tiny votes that didn't really do much for anyone. Almost like a 'nice post' comment, right? I'm guessing they scaled their votes thinking they were setting a fixed rate or vice versa. Mistakes happen, it's called learning. So, please, take the time to <b><a href="https://steemauto.com/dash.php?i=1&trail=thealliance" >GO TO STEEM AUTO BY CLICKING HERE</a></b> and make sure you have yours set to where it is (preferably scaled) at a decent percentage.</div>

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<center><H2>Anyone can follow the trail!
Earn GREAT curation rewards!
[Tap/Click here to follow #thealliance](https://steemauto.com/dash.php?i=1&trail=thealliance).
STeeM oN Everyone...remember...
<i>Just keep swimming...
Just keep swimming...</i></H2><H1> - Witty </H1>
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