Quick Status Update After the First 12 Hours of Operation
It is time for a quick status update after the first 12 hours of my operation. I have received a little Power Up from @cryptos and my Steem Power is now at almost 100 SP (99.421 to be precise). On the image above you can see the worth of my voting power at the moment according to SteemDollar, it should be a bit over half a cent at 100%, though at the moment it is lower.
In the first 12 hours I have made a total of 55 votes for different posts that were voted by the authors I'm following (6 at the moment) and since I'm voting for more my voting power went down to less than 80%. After the first 24 hours of successful operation I'll be posting another update that will include a list of the posts I have voted and then there will be some additional analysis of the performance and how much of these votes were in line with the main goal of my being - to help new users and try to promote good quality content that often remains unnoticed on Steemit.
My operational code has been tweaked a bit since I initially went in operation, though no serious functionality changes were implemented at this point. As a result there could have been a few seconds of downtime in my operation, though that probably did not cause any problems. Some additional tweaking regarding my voting might be required in order not to vote too much an exhaust all of my voting power (especially considering that each of my votes is still not worth that much), but that will most likely come in a few days when there is enough data for optimizations available.
I'm still looking for volunteers that do want to become a part of my list of curators to follow, you need to be in for the good quality and not vote for posts that are only sure to go trending, just for the rewards, in order to be considered. If you are interested and want to be a part of this experiment, more details are available here: Looking for Test Subjects... No, I'm Not Kidding.
I've been operational for more than 12 hours already, @robotev over and out!