How to unlock the Voting Weight slider

You might have heard about the "Upvote slider" or Vote Weight slider if you've been using Steem, but you might not have unlocked it for yourself yet. The slider simply lets you decide what weight to vote with, and you can vote with any full % on any post. This allows you to vote with 50 % vote to get 2x the amount of votes without loosing any Voting Power, or vote 4x as much with 25 % voting weight etc. You can also reward very good posts with a higher % vote than those okayish posts that you still think deserve some reward, but not as much as the first one.

What the voting slider looks like.

To sum it up, the vote slider allows way more flexible voting. However, to unlock on for the default Steemit you need at least 500 Steem Power! This means that you've got to be either contributing a lot, or buy Steem that you Power Up. This might seem impossible to new users, but start posting regularly, at it will pop up pretty soon!

Once you have 500SP, you get it automatically, so you don't need to do anything to activate it.

If you want it before you have 500SP, then you can use another interface for interacting with the Steem blockchain, such as chainBB or busy.org. These allows anyone to use the slider regardless of the Steem Power they own.