My six days as a dolphin have come to an end. Thanks to @krnel for allowing me to get a glimpse into how I will act with a $1 up vote. I’m happy to say that I wasn’t tempted to use my upvote any differently. I self voted at a rate of 3.63%, even less than I planned, as I only made three posts related to community initiatives. I upvoted 278 times on 127 unique users, many I know to be quality contributors and many who I was not familiar with.
As usual, (and this is all rough estimates) I tried to make less than 10% of my support for users larger than myself. Around 20-30% went to large minnows close to my size and the rest (over 50%) went to smaller minnows. This is essentially how I will be using my upvote when I actually have this much SP of my own. If I ever reach whale status, I would like to 5-10x the number of unique users who i upvote, but for now I think providing a substantial support to users who would make great community oriented dolphins is more important than dispersing my upvote between hundreds and hundreds of users who are just starting off.
Accomplishments this week
the #nobidbot tag has taken off, this was due in part to a few very influential people on the platform liking the idea but having a substantial upvote to support users of the tag certainly helped. This tag is turning into a kind of organic Trending/new page and it’s worth checking out!
The Deadpost Initiative had its best run in months and seems to have a rekindled interest with an upvote display of over $13 plus $4 sbd donations and 86+ comments. I was also able to upvote $0.25-$0.35 on each submission which is something I would love to continue doing so all participants can be rewarded.
#steemitzombies didn’t really have much action but I hope the popularity of #nobidbot can help prop up this initiative as well.
rewarding a ton of great users who really deserve more love on the platform.
There were many posts and users which I did not have a chance to upvote but who certainly deserved it. I hope to be back to 4K sp soon so I can! x-D
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My delegation has finished now too but it was very helpful to see the effect of voting higher/more etc.
I've been upvoting a few powerful accounts the same as anyone else but also discovered that they self vote early on so may need to rethink that.
Did you read my article, or the others that have been written about the Dust Threshold?
It would be great if you could put the word out about it as well as a lot of people are still unaware that they are, in effect, throwing their voting power away.
I'm finding that voting in such a way as to make all my votes count has reduced the number I am able to do.
I can't wait until I'm at a level where I don't need to think about such things although that seems a very long way off from here.
Glad you got to play with dolphin status for a while. Have a great week! 😍
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I think I read it. Either that or I saw you mention it elsewhere. It's ok, the start is just a learning experience. I'd rather people waste their votes on whales while they are still tiny and realizing that they are too busy to be noticed than waiting til they have bigger upvotes :-P
I think I make a great dolphin! I hope I can do it again soon and throw some love your way!
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It's not so much the wasting it on whales. I was voting on minnows who were never going to get any benefit from it, without realising that. Now I manage my voting so at least they will get something each time. 😁
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I agree. It's nice to find noobs who have great potential and give them a leg-up but it's also important to notice people that are actively trying to make this place a long-term success.
Kudos to you for that.
And yay for the #nobidbot tag :D
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If I do somehow end up with much more SP than I currently have one of my future projects will be the big minnow curation project which aims to curate larger minnows at around 1000 sp who are community oriented and help them turn into dolphins so they can turn others into dolphins. :-D
@whatsup had a great project called #adoptaminnow , I'd like to be able to help people grow quickly when they really work hard.
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Hiya @whatamidoing
That sounds like a great project. I'm not in very frequently, but if you need some occasional background support or help, giz a shout :)
I went to have a look at that tag but it's not showing anything at the mo. @whatsup's blog looks fun though so I've tagged onto their tail to get updates in feed. Thanks for the headsup :D
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I'm glad you got the chance to dive in deeper waters. I thought about leasing as well, but currently lack the time to devote to it. My next goal isn't far away: 500 SP. Cheers!
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Thanks! I don't think I'll lease, I don't really like the concept. I think more SP needs to be used in less self serving ways as it's the only real means of spreading the wealth on the platform. Good manual curation or free delegation to responsible curators are what the platform needs from people with SP.
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You know more and more about Steemit! Until now, I am still learning slowly 😜
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You are busy flying!!!!!
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I'm kind of impressed you keep track of these things XD Makes me think I better keep delegating coz I'd be a totally irreponsible and flighty cetacean x_x
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I don't keep careful track, I just kind of make mental notes and have a rough idea of what I'm doing. Despite my name.
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Well that seemed like a cool experience. Haha. Wonder what I'll do if someone delegated some big SP to me too? Lol. I'd probably do the same thing as I'm doing too. Hahaha. Ooops, with the exception of moving the slider maybe before I would vote. :P
I guess my next question would be, how do dolphins and big fishes earn without the help of big curators? Hmmm... Go the lend/lease SP for SBD way I presume? I'm a long way from being a dolphin but I'm curious. Maybe I'll write about it. :D
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I'll have to get really big so I can delegate to more people and show them what it feels like!
Dolphins and Whales by no means need to lend or lease SP. The ones who do it for free are being responsible to the community and doing great things. The ones who charge for it are being opportunistic. They can and do earn the same way as everyone else, through posting, except they get more attention cause everyone wants a piece of their SP and they can also self vote to get on trending. They also get much bigger rewards for curation, a whale will take most of the curation reward on posts that they upvote.
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Hmmm. 🤔🤔🤔
Ok thanks for the insight. 👍
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Great update. What technically constitutes a dolphin?
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I think it's 5000 sp although there are different definitions out there apparently.
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This seems like a good base rate, and then on any given week you can always adjust it downwards. Is there an easy way to figure this out or are you counting it manually?
I've seen some votes from you, and I want to let you know that you are always welcome to not vote on my posts/comments and distribute that value to someone smaller instead. Post-delegation you probably have way more votes you want to give than you have available, and they probably shouldn't be going to me.
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I am just making rough estimates, I could be off, but if I feel like I’ve upvoted more than 10% large accounts I cool it and save some for other people.
I would actually rather give the upvotes to you and people like you than brand new users sometimes. My long term goal at the platform (aside from just doing my thing) is to create as many responsible dolphins as possible, get as much of the wealth towards the middle as possible, particularly in the hands of people who will continue to help others with it. That’s means we need more support for large minnows. @curie and @ocd generally help out small minnows, so does the whole intro committee and so do initiatives like PAL and others. So I am happy to share my upvote with anyone who is community oriented and creating good content, specifically content creators and people who are supporting initiatives that don’t have a strict hierarchy. Just because you aren’t tiny doesn’t mean you aren’t undervalued.
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That wasn't meant to criticize your count, but because I was hoping for an easy way to get one of my own. (I think you knew this but just in case.)
The thing is, I have capital and I'm willing to use it. My experiment is still a long ways from complete, but I'm reasonably convinced that I could do well both for myself and for the platform even if I never got a vote that I didn't pay for. (At least as long as that one whale is selling me his votes at a huge discount.) Votes on top of that are great - but probably more meaningful to someone else. I feel like I'm almost telling you not to vote for me now, and that isn't my point. It's your vote.
But your understanding of my goals here means a lot more to me.
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I didn’t fully realize you were buying your vote although I suspected with the high payouts.. I’ll probably still upvote for you sometimes because I like you but knowing that, maybe I’ll save some of my votes for you til after you stop buying votes. I’m not really a fan of buying votes but I can still be friends with people who have different opinions of it.
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I think it's more important that we agree on this part:
There is a method to my madness. It may take a while for me to be able to communicate it though.
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Can't wait!
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nice statistics. its sems like it was a good test. :)
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I don't know if you saw my post in the steemitzombies but there may be a problem. I sent you a memo that explained the situation since you are the one that is most in charge there. Essentially I posted there and was accused of "committing a violation" because I reposted my own work.
I don't know if there is a way to address this type of issue but at the moment I am sitting a fresh post that I am worried will be flagged into nothing.
Aside from that, I am glad to see that you used you power to good ends. We need more people like you on this site. That nobidbot tag is a great idea and I plan to start posting there (if I can break my addiction to resteem bots lol).
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We do need more people working towards these goals, that way there will be more dolphins and we can all make more without spreading ourselves so damn thin, and I can reply to this sooner. I did notice the post though.
I think the nobidbot will really take off when we get some SP invested in a curation project, or a few dolphins who use it to curate posts. It doesn't even need to be a lot. It's already doing great though.
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No problem I miss stuff all the time. I just purged some of the more worthless resteem services from my following list so my feed isn't clogged up with a bunch nonsense. I am tired of seeing the same post about walking around "with nipples exposed to bring pleasure on demand for a peaceful world" (seriously I have had like 10 of those in my feed over the last week lol). I think I am going to start posting in nobidbot today (if I can bring my self to finish the post that I am working on). I have been talking to diabolika about it (she has been doing pretty well there and makes interesting content) and that kind of put me over the edge on the idea.
I wrote my little post venting about that (some might say bitching) and I seemed to get more support than anything so I am a little more at ease. I stand by the tag and I try to promote it whenever I post there. Sadly I have very little pull but if I ever do, you will have my support. For now the best I can do is give someone 0.01 or say a few supportive words in their comments but at least that's something.
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You know what...up to now, i got no clue about steemitzombies but my fault☺
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IT's ok, there is so much going on at steemit! I wrote a post and the initial post got sooooo much support but then people forgot about it. I will try to use nobidbot to help advertise it.
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We forget easily😁😂
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