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@make-a-whale is a community project to create a whale that always supports its feeders.

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DAY	35
Members	41
Followers	160
Steem Power	260.240
Delegated	11 584
Voting Power	71%
Upvote Weight	40%
Current Upvote Worth	$0.55

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Ahoi Members!

@make-a-whale is a community project to create a whale that always supports its feeders. You support it and it supports you. It upvotes each member once in a 24 hour period. @make-a-whale will post each day, that post needs to be upvoted by each member. There is also a bonus 100% rotational upvote.

We have worked out a scale that will make sure @make-a-whale always upvotes you with a bigger upvote than the one you used to upvote the daily post, if you post on average once a day. Thus, the fair scale ensure you always win!

There are some members who support the project with larger upvotes and this is greatly appreciated! The more we grow the more members we can recruit and the larger upvotes we can give.

To participate you need to post good original content, have a Reputation of 50+ and 500+ Steempower.

Currently not accepting new members.

New slots open up as the project grows

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NEWS

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Lease expiring

With MAW's 5K lease expiring soon we will make another lease on Sunday. As always all donations from members are welcome! We can only invite more members as the project grows so let's grow and help get some more members on board. =)

Bot timer change

Since a lot of member post about the same time each day they sometimes post a little too early and within the 24 hour window of their 1st vote. This results in their post not getting upvoted. We change our timer to 22 hours. This will be monitored to see if it works out ok.

How to get more upvotes from MAW

The MAW Bot we have is configured to upvote each member once in a 22-hour window. This could be problematic as you may miss an upvote because you posted your post at 21 hours and 30 minutes after you last upvote from MAW.

There is a way to get that 2nd upvote though, after the 22hours. If you open your post, click on Edit (you don't have to change anything) and then click update the bot will see this as a newly authored post and you will get the upvote on your post. So in theory, if you are a daily blogger you don't have to post at the same time each day. Simply edit and update your posts once a day at the same time.

We did try configuring the bot to basically reset it's timer once a day, it just did not work... These bots are quite finicky and tricky sometimes. I f we can get different bot later, for now we will stick with the current bot.

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NEW UPVOTING RULES

In the past MAW has tried Steemvoter and Streemian, both gave us some issues in the past. Lately, Streemian is just extremely unreliable and Steemvoter has stepped up its game being extremely reliable. We have talked with the creators of Steemvoter and they assured that their system is pretty robust at the moment and the only reason upvotes might not go out is because of node errors. Lately, the nodes have been pretty stable (compared to when MAW first tried Steemvoter).

MAW has been jumping back and forth a bit when it comes to the upvoting of MAW posts. We apologize for this, the steemit services have their own issues that are out of MAW's control. It was a testing phase.

From now on you can pick how you upvote MAW:

1. Steemvoter - The best option recently.

Guide on how to set up your Steemvoter account.

2. Join the Streemian trail - Too unreliable lately -

Guide to set up your Streemian account.

Streemian Trail to follow

Streemian is just too unreliable so we will eventually phase it out completely.

3. Manual upvoting - if you do not like using Steemvoter you can manual vote.

MAW will check the upvotes each SUNDAY. Skipping more than 4 per week will result in a reminder. Failure to catch up before TUESDAY will result in being removed from the voting pool for the week. Thus, it will be your own responsibility to make sure your upvotes go through to the MAW posts. =)

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And the winner is... STEEMVOTER!

MAW's final recommendation will be setting up a Steemvoter account. We gave both systems a run and honestly Streemian is great, when it works... It just has too much downtime to be reliable.

Once again MAW apologizes for the back and forth of the automation testing. We have been testing and appreciate the patience. From now on we will stick to Steemvoter.

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Discord

We started a Discord channel and you can join by requesting the link from @scrooger or @gingerninja. Come join in and say hello, make friends, share posts and have fun. Any feedback or concerns about the project can be directed to @scrooger on Discord.

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Thank you for all your patience while we keep testing and perfecting the system.

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Tomorrow's Roundabout Whale High Five 100% Upvote goes to:

@tattoodjay

Wondering when it's your turn? Here's the list.

Members	Voted
@gingerninja	YES
@oleg326756	YES
@scrooger	YES
@cryptastic	YES
@xervantes	YES
@gregory-f	YES
@ragepeanut	YES
@happymoneyman	YES
@flauwy	YES
@alphacore	YES
@twistychips	YES
@djynn	YES
@colinbrazendale	YES
@costopher	YES
@steemiteducation	YES
@williams858	YES
@giantbear	YES
@theregularguy	YES
@birdistheword	YES
@abh12345	YES
@maarnio	YES
@sumatranate	YES
@hopehuggs	YES
@anarcotech	YES
nonmention	YES
@arturomdg	YES
@pjcswart	YES
@orionsbelt	SKIPPED(no content)
@lifemovedbysteem	YES
@pearica	SKIPPED(REP up)
@waphilip	YES
@em3	YES
@brumest	YES
@ewkaw	YES
@tattoodjay	NEXT
@phelimint
@cheeto.blue
@bdmomuae
@ogochukwu
@theleapingkoala
@bigpanda

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Together from minnows to dolphins to whales!!

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