Announcing STEEMS biggest push yet to Grow a Middle Class - Let's Make 250 New Minnows in a Month

in #steem6 years ago (edited)

Steemcommunity, as a witness, have been passionate about powering up and growing a middle class on STEEM for a long time.  To promote this to STEEM users we have been running both the Redfish Power UP league and Minnow Power Up leagues for some time.  During this time, we have seen 52 redfish grow into minnows and 20 minnows grow into Dolphins.

@steevc has started a campaign to make #TenKMinnows  by the end of the year.  @pennsif hosted a forum on the topic and this inspired us to reach out and work together to run a month-long campaign.  Reaching for the stars we have put a team together and we will be making 250 new minnows in a month.

The Problem

- The initial distribution of STEEM did the blockchain no favours.

- SteemPower remains unequally distributed between the classes

- Lack of an active middle class leads to reliance on larger accounts to distribute new STEEM

- STEEM has too many Redfish and not enough minnows.

- Projects such as @hitmeasap Makeaminnow and @steevc #TenKMinnows  are going unnoticed

The Solution

Kickstart a wave of new minnows by making 250 new minnows in a month. We currently have 9223 redfish on STEEM, buy boosting this by 250 in one month will hopefully kickstart a new push towards growth and holding SP.

By doing this we will provide motivation and spread good will, positive vibes and abundance that will have a lasting and possibly snowball effect.  We will be encouraging our new minnows to pay on the favour by supporting longer term projects such as @hitmeasap #makeaminnow and @steevc #tenkminnows and @paulag Redfish power up league.

We know this will not solve all the problems, but it will go a long way to help.

@theycallmedan recently pointed out that we only need 300,000 people holding 1000 STEEM under the current supply for no one else to be able to get their hands on it.  Lets kickstart the ball rolling.

The Project Team

@paulag, @steevc @hitmeasap, @niallon11, @slobberchops, @cryptoandcoffee, @blanchy, @pennsif and maybe you?

Target Accounts

250 is an ambitious target.  We ran a data query and already pulled the starting list. To find these accounts we added some criteria to filter to the database.

Criteria used 

• Posted a root post in 2019

• Have SP of 425 or more

• Have an account balance of the equivalent of 500 SP or less.  This is calculated as SP+ liquid funds + (pending payouts  *.75) + savings balance

This leaves us with 192 accounts requiring an addational 5751 SP in total to become minnows. In vote value to include curation rewards this is gross vote value of 7667 SP.  This would require the equivalent of 1.25M SP voting at full power 10 times a day.

There are a further 170 accounts with SP of less than 500 but enough in liquid or savings to become a minnow.  A campaign will be set up to try and contact as many of these as possible and encourage them to become minnows.

Between both list we have a total of 362 accounts that we will make minnows before the end of the month. Target 250.

Am I on the list? What should I do?

Team members working on this project will be publishing details of accounts that are on the target lists.  Keep an eye on your mentions to see if you have been called.  Just in case you miss the post, the team members will also be doing an outreach to encourage as many on the list as possible to join in.

If you are on our list, you will be asked to write a post on a certain topic.  That post will be used for voting. For some accounts it may take 3-4 posts to get the accounts over the line to minnowhood.  The team members will let you know what you must do, so do stay in touch with them.

The biggest requirement is that you will power up.  The aim of this project is to make minnows and we are seeking funding and support to make this happen.  We don’t want to waste voting power on those that do not want to reach and hold minnow status.  the team are still ironing out the final operational details and they will be published shortly.

How you can help and get involved

With such an ambitious target, we need all your help and your support. This project will be running for the next month. Our team members will be actively contacting people to vote for posts and support the push on these accounts in whatever way possible.

You can help by resteeming this post and mention it to anyone you think could help. Tweet it and share it whatever way you can.

To support the accounts with votes please contact paulag (steemcommunity witness)#0515 on discord or leave a comment on, this or any of the posts of our team members relating to this project.  Votes will need coordination to make sure we get everyone over the line.  

You can also follow the posts from our team @paulag, @pennsif @steevc @hitmeasap, @niallon11, @slobberchops, @cryptoandcoffee, @blanchy as you will find regular updates and the next accounts on the list in need of support

Join our project team.  250 accounts is quite a lot.  If you would like to join our team and help us achieve this target, please do contact any of the team members or leave a comment below this post.

Find out more

@pennsif is holding 60 Minutes of Steem this Thursday evening. @paulag will be discussing this project live.  We hope to see you all there. 

 Shameless Promotion

Like what we are doing?  Dont forget to vote for @steemcommunity as your steem witness.  You can vote for our witness using SteemConnect here: https://steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=steemcommunity&approve=1

  

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How much SP should someone get to become a minnow? Dolphin?

I'm kinda new here...

500sp for a minnow
5000 sp for a dolphin

Oh boy. I thought much less.

Thought the same when I was starting out. It was much easier to become a Dolphin then than it is now because there were a lot fewer people make then, but now, with more people coming in almost everyday, the total reward pool is widely distributed making it harder for the new folks to grow faster.

That's why getting involved in projects like the one mentioned in this post is one of the best ways to speed up your growth on Steemit. Good luck with the platform, buddy.

500 for minnow and 5000+ for Dolphin, good luck :D

That sounds like an awesome project to close the gab between small and some rather big accounts. Now, I wonder, what I would have to do to make it on that list and become a middelclass-member as well. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

P.S.: I started with follow, upvote and resteeming this post.

the list has already been pulled, 425+ sp, not powering down and doesnt hold enough liquid to get them over the line, we are vetting all of these manually and when we complete this target list, we will run a new one if we have not yet reached our target numbers.
but whos to say after this month, at the end of next quarter we could do it again if we are successfull, giving others plenty of time to grow and make it to a new list .... now theres a thought :-)

ok, thannks...I'm looking forward to!

I would say to follow along the project anyway as there will be some helpful posts to show you how to get the most from you work. There are plenty simple changes in your habits that will help you to grow faster.

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I am a redfish, I have bought also steem whenever I have some extra cash, but still it is too small for me to buy the level of minnow, not a good writer too, not to mention lack of time to write good stuff, but I interact more with the community lately.

All my steem earnings went to powerup.

I will support your project to the simplest I can.

you have an amazing attitued. engaging on steem is the way for long term success. keep doing what you are doing and thank you for all the support. Please do keep an eye out for post with details of accounts to support

Thank, it needs passion to really be satisfied in what endeavor you are in.

When many leave because of the bear market, me, as a red fish, have continually sleeping with the bear.

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I will be happy to support this with my own voting power and also with SteemPress for users looking to grow their STEEM holdings and use it to boost their own blogs!

It will be key for Steems growth for there to be a closer correlation between the number of votes, followers and active engagers one has on their posts. Having more minnows and better distributed stake is the only way to accomplish that.

Thank you so much @fredrikka and @steempress, this is a wonderful addation to the support we are raising. 250 accounts may not sound like that many to everyone but the cordination of it is crazy, its a big task and you just made it easier

@awesomianist @jongolson @steemitmamas @khimgoh @steemxp @bitrocker2020 check this out... Make 250 minnows every month... 💪

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I have Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday votes available to help out. My votes on Sunday, Monday's, Wednesday, and Friday I already expend in support of my favorite tags. So on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, I can dedicate 5 50% votes for the boost over the line to minnowhood.

While my vote at 50% may not be a lot, over time the small votes do help, after all that is how I have been moving up, one small vote at a time. So a future, here are a few to vote on this week list would be a nice thing to make it easier on me, and maybe on others that can support through their small votes.

We all need to try and rely on each others small votes and not hope and pray so much for that curie or whale vote so often.

high five - thats the support we want to see. you are amazing. every single vote will count in this, no matter how big or small. they will all be valued. I have added you to a list of supporters. the redfish that we will be pushing will be writing specific posts to be voted on and we will notify you when we have some ready for voting. Thank you so much

Following bashadow's lead I'll commit to 5 x 50% votes on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. My vote's not big, 4 cents at 100% but as you said, every little helps.

awesome, fantastic, this is amazing. thank you so so much for this support. we will be in touch with more details. the steem community rocks

That's brilliant. At the end of the day all votes count no matter how small. Just the fact that so many established accounts are willing to get behind this project says a lot.

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This sounds like a great project, focusing steem power on those that are on the cusp of minnowhood and need that bit of extra help.

Is there a curation trail? List or some other way to keep track? If you have posts from vetted redfish steemians, happy to vote on those.

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you could follow the votes of @steemcommunity as they will be voting exclusivelly on this for the next month. Also we will have posts from the team leaders with details of all the posts that need upvoting. the accounts we hope to boost will have to opt in with a post so we have something to vote on. I could partner you up with one of the team leaders as we are all managing a set of accounts to get them over the line, that would help a lot?

If somebody can take on the task of adding/removing user accounts, I could setup a community using my @we-are bot system and that'd autovote the target accounts. I'd suggest making a specific voting account that could be an SP delegation target for those wanting to help.

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Sounds good!

Is there script potential to check powerdown status for example? Not a suggestion it would be used for this initiative but just an idea.

I guess administration of the votes list would take a little time each day. Would that be via steemauto or something else?

Cheers!

I could make a script to check such things. Though StermBI people can probably use their existing tools and then they can evolve their criteria as they like.
My @we-are bot takes care of voting content based on membership of a community. It'd take a little bit of time to add/remove people from the community, but otherwise everything is is automated. I don't have much written about it, but maybe you can check it's blog on @we-are-one

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Thanks for the information here and the work with the 'we-are' accounts. I have noticed them passing by my posts :)

Hopefully Paula got in touch with you on Discord.

we are manually vetting all the accounts as we have other supporters too that are willing to do the same. I will send you a dm on discord

Excellent. I hope I can be of help.

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Awesome, I will have to login via steemauto and follow that vote trail.

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Oh, how do you follow the votes? I can't find a @steemcommunity voting trail on steem auto

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Great Initiative. I too agree that for the successful running of steem platform we need a strong middle class.

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fantastic, I hope you will keep your eye out for the posts and support them, this is a massive undertaking, 250 new minnows in a month is huge.

Thank you very much for your sharing, we support for the point, per account hold 1000 SP x 300.000 accnt

Hope as soon realize👌

Great initiative giving folks a boost to get to minnowhood, I know it was a big milestone to me!

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