RE: A Witness Pay It Forward Initiative
I started to write a contest that used the #payitforward tag yesterday and just posted. At that time there were no posts there. Anyways this is how I found your post.
Love the idea that you want to delegate out some of your SP to those who are smaller and in need. I'm currently running a contest to help highlight some of the smallest members of steemit get a little attention. Right now my plan is to run this for 3 weeks as that is what I can afford. The contest focuses on curating smaller members great posts and then posting about them.
Anyways I would look at 2 week delegations on the low end. With the cool off period 1 week just means you are wasting 50% of the time that power is delegated to nothing. At 2 weeks you are now benefiting someone for 66% of the time and only 33% is wasted.
It also will allow the person enough time to see some benefit from the delegation. With 2 weeks it's enough time to see rewards from week 1 and be motivated to push harder during week 2. Hope that makes sense.
If you could be so kind as to include a small autovote for 1 post per day during the delegation time frame you could really impact the person. I know when someone comes along and drops even a 50 cent - $1 vote I notice it and it makes my day. Have some requirements that you spot check and if they are violated the autovote gets turned off, but seriously these votes can really help keep a smaller member motivated.
Either way I hope you follow through with this and help motivate some minnows and plankton.
BTW, hope you don't mind that I talked about my contest...just realized that it might seem like I'm fishing for some eyeballs on my post but that wasn't my goal. I will delete the top part if you want, just ask.
@krnel, I am vouching for @thedarkhorse here! His pay it forward mentality is honourable, and please disregard his last sentence:) He is anything but,
His contest idea is a good one! The title alone, "Pay it Forward Curation Contest" pretty much says it all.
I agree about his contest and his pay it forward mentality is honourable .
Thank you so much @wolfhart; it appears that many feel the same way from the response to it thus far, so we are hoping to continue running it for a few weeks if the enthusiasm warrants. Thank you again for your generosity to this platform!
Thanks for the feedback. It sucks there is a dead-zone for delegation like you say. I don't use bots, autovotes, curation or anything like that, it's all manual. I support posts I want to support, which includes small accounts. But thank you for the suggestions. :)
It's just really hard for new members to get enough SP to even be able to keep the site running. Those of us with some capital to drop and buy SP forget that many people here are from countries were buying $50 USD worth of steem to get around 25sp is a TON of money.
It's a hard issue to tackle as new members come in and drop out at such a high rate. Would more stay if they didn't run into bandwidth issues left and right? Not sure, but I'd guess more would stay.
But if you give them more to start with even in terms of delegated SP as an automatic delegation then we run into more multi account scammers and spammers. So many people are looking for an angle to game the system.
Have some thoughts on a potential solution for this, but need to do a little research to flush them out.