Delegation's what you need

Some time ago Steemit added the ability to delegate some of your Steem Power to another user. Basically, you still own it, but the other person gets the ability to give bigger rewards with their vote and earn more from curation. If you want it back then it takes seven days to return to you to prevent you double-voting (although that may be exploitable). I've now delegated some of my SP to a couple of people I trust to use it wisely. I don't use up all my voting power anyway. I can get by with a little less curation rewards.

This functionality is not accessible from any of the Steemit-based web sites that I know of. You basically have to do it using code. There's a function in the Steem Python library to do it. I was able to install that and write a little script to do the job. I got some tips from this post.

This is what I'm using. I'm obviously not including my keys. There is a way to use them via a wallet application, but that's not working for me. I get errors when I try to run the steempy application. I think there's a dependency that's broken and I've not managed to find a fix yet. BTW 80000 VESTS equates to 387 Steem.

from steem import Steem
s=Steem(keys=['<posting>','<active>'])
s.delegate_vesting_shares('<recipient>','800000 VESTS')

I'll consider doing this for other people, but it's likely to be reserved for people I know fairly well who don't have much SP of their own. I want them to help others as well as do better for themselves. I'm not asking anything in return. I've done very well from Steemit and I want to give something back.

I hope this facility will be made easier to use in time so that more people can do this.

Steem on!

I'm Steve, the geeky guitarist.

I'll buy guitar picks for Steem Dollars