Hello Steemsilvergold.

All delegations and liquid donations have stopped coming in and we have crunched the numbers and came up with the final percentages that we will trail for 1 week. We have decided to go in low and hope that we can maintain the voting power we have now at around 85% which is a good solid number and the bot's target outlined in the terms. With the new copper level being added, we have had a few members upgrade to get a bigger upvote. Let's just jump into it, shame we? I blah blah enough in the video's i post.

For this month, we have factored in a 100% self vote to @ssg-community. There are a few reasons for this which i will explain. Firstly, we need more STEEM from post payouts. We do not want to make daily voting the bot's post a must, but we must get our STEEM from else were. The 100% self vote in my eyes is a community donation from our own voting percentages. If most people upvoted the bot's posts we would not need to self vote which would result in bigger upvoting percentages so it's swings and roundabouts. Secondly, we have sponsorship from @silver-hammer for 1 month which rewards a daily upvote. This means we will get 2 decent sized upvotes everyday this month.

Quick Rundown

17 Gold Members
10 Silver Members
12 Copper Members
20 Bronze Members
12 Lead Members

71 Contributing Members and 80 Base Members

5 New Members
14 Upgraded Mebers
3 Downgraded Members
129 Unchanged members

41,100 SP delegated and 630 liquid STEEM collected

86.96% Voting Power
109,415 total STEEM power

Upvoting percentages for August

You's will notice that all levels apart from gold has dropped a little bit. This is direct result of cutting the base upvote to 1% (bad thing) and changing the liquid STEEM donation contribution from 4.5% down to 4% (good thing). In a nut shell, everyone no matter the level lost 1% when we decided to cut the base rate. The reason all level's expect gold are now down a little less than 1% is because of the change from 4.5% to 4% (good thing). I understand alot of you may have no idea what it all means and your just wanting to know why your upvote percetnage has gone down a little. 14 upgrades, 3 new gold members and a base rate cut. We only get 1200% to vote with everyday and we are already and we are pushing it already.

As it Stands

We thought we would post up the master excel sheet this month. It gives everyone the chance to ensure they are receving the correct upvote based on your contribution.

Lets make no bones about it folks, im not one for sugar coating my words. Things have been really shit the past few months in relation to post payouts as a whole. We were getting around 12STU upvotes for gold when Precious started but the with the SBD to STEEM ratio falling back in proper sync, reality is kicking in and our 7 month free ride is over. I only see a future were Precious can accept liquid donations as long as we are running raffles, contests and collecting upvotes from daily posts. As the price of STEEM cotinutes to fall, it gets harder every month the pay for leases. The thing with most of our important leases is they are set up privately and missing a weekly payment is like breaking a gentleman's handshake and could result in losing a good lease at a good rate. Im not saying anything will change at all, im just saying that there is alot happens behind the scene's that affects the bot's performance that we have not control over.

Me and Welshstacker everytime to price of STEEM drops a few cents

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Please Note : @ssg-community - The silver Mermaid aka Precious is a community bot owned and ran by the steemsilvergold community and is exclusive to it's members

I am @silverstackeruk and I approve this post

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@buggedout, @raybrockman, @silverstackeruk, @welshstacker and @thedamus