How to Set Voting Weight (using Python Script) for Minnows with Less than 500 Steem Power on Steemit?

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It is said that, if you have less than 500 Steem Power, you won’t see this voting weight bar when you upvote.

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It means that each vote is 100%, which you could verify on steemd.

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I write a Python script to verify this:

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def vote(id, key, url, score = 100.0):
  wif = {
      "posting": key
  }
  try:
    steem = Steem(keys=wif)    
    return(steem.vote(url, score, id))
  except:
    pass

def vote(id, key, url, score = 100.0):
  wif = {
      "posting": key
  }
  try:
    steem = Steem(keys=wif)    
    return(steem.vote(url, score, id))
  except:
    pass

For example, vote(‘some_id_less_than_500sp’, key, ‘some_url’, 30) is successful even for minnows with less than 500 SP

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Apart from this, I learn that:

If a post or comment has been voted, when you upvote it again:

• If the voting weight is the same as last time, nothing will happen i.e. nor the blockchain will not accept your vote, neither it will consume your voting power.
• However, if the voting weight for that post or comment is different, the blockchain will accept this vote, update the voting weight and you will consume the voting power.

You could also enforce a duplicate-upvote-check locally, marking a vote has been done in local file system or database.

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def vote(id, key, url, score = 100.0):
  wif = {
      "posting": key
  }
  fn = id + '_' + md5(url) + '_' + str(score) 
  ok = not os.path.isfile(fn)
  if not ok:
    print("voted already: " + fn)  
    return  
  touch(fn)
  try:
    steem = Steem(keys=wif)    
    print("voted: " + fn)
    return(steem.vote(url, score, id))
  except:
    pass

def vote(id, key, url, score = 100.0):
  wif = {
      "posting": key
  }
  fn = id + '_' + md5(url) + '_' + str(score) 
  ok = not os.path.isfile(fn)
  if not ok:
    print("voted already: " + fn)  
    return  
  touch(fn)
  try:
    steem = Steem(keys=wif)    
    print("voted: " + fn)
    return(steem.vote(url, score, id))
  except:
    pass

This actually is 50% of the voting robots such as @randowhale and @minnowbooster where the 50% rest is to listen the transactions of the wallet, make votes and record them in the database (or filesystem).

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