Minnow

Minnow is a term which is generally applied to a steemit.com users who is relatively new to steemit, or, who has yet to built up a large amount of Steem Power. Therefore, their influence over aspects of the website steemit.com such as voting power and payouts tend to be quite minimal. This is especially true when comparing these users to those dubbed "Whales" or "Dolphins" who have in general been active on steemit.com much longer, built up larger amounts of Steem Power and also have higher reputations.

Minnow Voting:

Minnows have very little ability to influence the direction that votes take, as their votes are not worth very much. It would take many minnows voting power combined to affect a post. Some speculate this quanitity of minnow votes may even be in the hundreds of minnow votes on a post or comment, and that is just to make them worth the same in votes as one whale.

Minnow Tipping:

Minnows can not up vote content and immediately give it a "tip" at the same time. At most, a minnow vote might be able to earn you $.01, as the new users in the minnow category slowly rise through the early Steam Power numbers.