@fulltimegeek's making a list, and checking it twice...

...gonna find out who's naughty and nice!

That's right Stewards, @fulltimegeek aka Lord of the Steems, has been handing out presents prior to the big day, but with so many chimneys to fall down, it's best to make sure your house is in order and your cookies and milk haven't gone stale.

This is a look at how the Stewards of Gondor have been keeping themselves busy over the past week, and some thoughts from myself on how this awesome time for Steemians and Stewards alike is working out...

_{I've been cracking myself up with this image so I hope it brings a smile to your face too!}

For those who haven't heard the news, @fulltimegeek has seen into the future for Steemit and has delivered back a message for us all. A key component of the success of Steemit and the Blockchain it sits on, was the ability to 'pay it forward' and support the keen new arrivals by interacting as well as lifting them up and over the early obstacles.

No one person could do this alone. So with the power of delegation, dozens were chosen to act as Stewards of Steem Power, and to succeed in this quest as a team.

Below is a table showing some of the key interactions performed by these stewards over the past 7 days. The columns (ordered alphabetically) in the table are as follows:

Steward: Steem Username
Posts: Number of Top level posts in the past 7 days
Comments: Number of comments made in the past 7 days
Wit_v: Number of Witnesses voted for
Votes: Total number of votes made in the past 7 days
Unique_v: Total number of votes made to different authors in the past 7 days
Self_v: Number of self-votes made in the past 7 days
Down_v: Number of down-votes made in the past 7 days

Name	Posts	Comments	Wit_v	Votes	Unique_v	Self_v	Down_v
@abh12345	9	263	27	888	353	11	0
@c0ff33a	5	90	27	267	66	5	0
@carlgnash	2	60	sircork	179	139	1	0
@cecicastor	2	589	5	797	285	0	0
@coincentrado	18	76	0	287	143	16	1
@coolguy123	16	92	30	1139	834	1	0
@crimsonclad	2	41	followbtcnews	1064	428	2	0
@dakini5d	31	229	0	680	327	55	0
@drakos	9	94	30	204	112	10	8
@fabiyamada	7	165	11	241	108	7	0
@flauwy	14	124	9	184	70	18	49
@frankbacon	4	52	0	116	50	1	0
@goldendawne	13	315	13	254	184	0	0
@greenrun	7	525	3	365	202	1	0
@howtostartablog	14	140	13	530	215	0	1
@ienrikex	2	1	3	552	290	2	0
@inquiringtimes	3	56	30	188	129	5	7
@kubbyelizabeth	9	141	18	702	313	10	0
@littleboy	3	66	6	289	74	37	167
@luisucv34	3	13	16	783	382	3	1
@luming	18	146	7	230	101	18	0
@lyndsaybowes	10	379	30	682	200	0	2
@markwhittam	3	27	2	169	76	3	0
@marxrab	12	130	0	577	171	12	0
@mikepm74	11	111	26	202	148	2	0
@old-guy-photos	10	255	3	289	85	7	0
@openmic	0	0	0	114	90	0	0
@orcheva	6	107	10	158	64	1	0
@paulag	4	67	9	200	136	5	21
@public-eye	0	43	5	116	41	8	15
@reko	7	105	28	660	351	0	0
@stackin	7	106	9	1044	320	7	1
@taskmaster4450	17	362	2	752	370	17	0
@teamhumble	24	270	30	584	197	15	0
@tommycordero	1	18	10	98	90	1	3
@votovzla	6	44	9	105	56	8	0
@wwf	11	69	0	148	51	8	0

_{The table can be copy/pasted into excel for sorting and further analysis
Data extracted from @arcange's SteemSQL DB at 10:30 am 11th December 2017}

Stewards have written 5371 comments and cast 15837 up-votes - nice!

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Star Stewards

@cecicastor and greenrun, both topping 500 comments for the past 70 day - hail keyboards!

@stackin, @coolguy123, and @crimsonclad all handing out over 1000 votes this past week - up-vote legends!

@coolguy123 - Master steward of goodwill to all with over 800 unique Steemians reached!

Thoughts on my own Stewardship so far

Having seen the table and weekly stats over on @fulltimegeek's latest blog, I'm happy to see my number of self-votes fall this past week. I've still been voting my top level posts (and 2 comments it seems!), but as my delegation doubled, I halved the vote weight.

With this extra power, I also chose to drop the weight over my votes on my auto-vote list, freeing up more power for the main task at hand, 'letting the ladder down' and seeing who's willing to take the risk in climbing it.

Those of us with 10,000 Steem Power delegation, have a vote of over $1 at present. I think that even half this amount is a nice lift for a budding young Steemian, and we can do this 140 times each week and be at full voting power at the end of 7 days. If you chose to half the amount again, you've got 280 votes to share - this, along with a supportive comment, could be enough to boost the energy and interest of the receiver into writing another blog. Success!

Stewards - How do you think you are carrying out your duties?

What other numbers could be added to help you perform better?

Budding Stewards - Do you think you've got what it takes? Would the numbers speak kindly of you?

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Millions of thanks once again to the one and only @fulltimegeek - Steemit legend, and Lord of the Steem.

Cheers all!

Asher @abh12345