Apply here for dolphin support: 400-800 SP accounts.
Edit: a more complete project description is now available here at the project's top-level account @themesopotamians.
So I'm preparing to start the second level of my leveling-up system for Steem that I started with @doctorworm. That account is set up to get new users from zero to 500 SP, and this one will be intended to get users from 500-1100.
However, while I have no shortage of plankton/redfish I want to support, I'm having a harder time finding small minnows, so I thought I would open this one up to general applications. Here are the criteria:
- You must have between 400 and 800 native SP. (Before calculating any delegation.)
- You must be a community-oriented poster, and have some evidence to show for that. (This is open-ended partly so you can tell me what it means to you.)
- Your long-term Steem strategy must be to grow your account.
Be aware that since I'm basically handing out money here I feel no obligation to be fair in my choices.
What you get is a minute-zero upvote for as long as you continue to support the community and grow your account, until you have 1100 SP, at which point you will have the opportunity to complete a quest to move to Level Three. Once you're in this system as long as you keep going you'll be a dolphin before we're done.
There are no requirements to support the system in return, though obviously I appreciate it if you do, and it will help me advance more users in the future.
There's no fixed number of users, but I'm looking to vote a total of about fifty posts a week from an account that will start with 2000 SP, starting in ten days or so.
To apply leave a comment here with something about who you are, what your community participation level is, and what you would like it to be in the future.
For some reason a weight-lifting parrot seems appropriate for this. My photo.
707.480 is my current SP and I lease another 1000 to give me enough voting power to had out votes to help grow the plankton that are featured in my Pay It Forward Curation Contest.
The PIF Curation contest is designed to help level 50 and below steemians gain more exposure. A group of curators create entry posts where they feature 2 level 50 or below steemians who wrote a great post that deserves some added votes and attention. We have had multiple posts featured which later were picked up by Curie...which tells me we have a few quality curators taking part in the contest!
Side note we are always looking for more people to join the contest and help us find even more great plankton and minnows to feature!
This contest is pretty much my focus each week as it is very time consuming, but I also help with Steem Greeters Guild and just had my first post published for SteemBasicIncome and will be helping with other posts there to keep them growing. All of these efforts are focused on helping members of steemit continue their growth.
Plans over the near future are to get PIF it's own account, build a PIF vote trail to allow some larger members of steemit to be able to reward the top featured blog posts without having to invest the time into reading all of the entries, and to build up an account which will be used to adopt the best featured bloggers each week and help support them and get them past the 60 day mark and reduce the churn rate of new accounts.
Now while all of this is designed to help others grow and some might think I'm not trying hard enough to grow my account. The give first and then receive approach also helps me grow. Our PIF contest curators' accounts grow each week and their votes keep increasing which helps me grow and give them even larger votes and the circle of growth continues week after week. Plus more newbies we can get hooked on steemit the better chance we have of steem going up in value which helps all of our investments. Win-Win for everyone is the way I see this and so far it's been working nicely.
Anyways that is me and what my future plans are. Any support is always welcome!
I pretty much already implied it but here's your official congratulations message. Watch @m-sargon for details as I get this started.
Thank you! Look forward to seeing this program in action and please let me know if you ever need anything on my end.
Thanks for the application. If I'd realized you were eligible I'd have bugged you earlier. I really love PIF and it's pretty much exactly what I'm looking for here.
Thanks for pointing this out to me. Been one of those weeks where I am jumping on for 10 minute here, 30 minutes there, and really mainly just focusing on my PIF efforts. Some weeks that is the only thing that gets done, but it always is done. Can't ignore the efforts of those taking the time to curate others and don't ever want to short change those who were featured by the curators.
That's a great thing your doing .
Your support for the PIF curation contest would provides and helps redfish move up to the next level . With your support behind @thedarkhorse , PIF that number would increase dramatically . Also allowing PIF to be self sustaining for the future of the platform .
It answers both your community and growth requirement with a bonus of it easy to monitor
I'm a little late getting in on this, but I totally missed thedarkhorse 'applying' here and wanted to give him my full endorsement!
I really like your Pay It Forward curation contest and I think it would be wonderful if it can get more support. Your project helps the smallest fish who needs the most support.
Thank you! Have been hearing more and more people mention PIF and that has really motivated me to start organizing to move this to the next level.
My full support to @thedarkhorse! His contest is beautiful and I intend to participate every week and often fail. But he does so much for the community and really needs to have more SP in his account and not be in need to lease it!
I'd lease the 1,000 no matter what as I've made a long term commitment for it which got me a reduced rate. Nice win-win situation with that. But I still need way more SP to do what I'd like to be able to achieve.
Thanks for your support!
Thank you for an amazing initiative @tcpolymath. I love the #payitforward contest and what it does for newbies. For what it is worth, I think to strengthen @thedarkhorse in his tireless and selfless pursuit of PIF's goals would be an awesome application of the help you are making available.
Happy to see an organization like this. I know you will do your best. Good Luck.
hello @tcpolymath ! 👋
this is a great initiative and i am glad to see so many wonderful people already applying :D it shows a real genuine community feel, specially with other people vouching for those that put their hands up <3 amazing vibes!
as for me, i'm kind of shy of 400 SP, at 357SP, but I have around 100SBD that I'm waiting to convert to SP when the price is agreeable... haha. I have never taken SBD out of the blockchain so far since my goal is to grow and to be able to support others on the blockchain :> I don't think I'll take any SBDs out in the foreseeable future, either :D
I am active at the art communities, having a moderator role at Steem Artists and SteemRepo, and with the wonderful Curie people also, and at C-Squared, curating and finding good artists to promote and appreciate :> I've recently been made an art curator there, and I am humbled and grateful and I will continue to discover, highlight and curate quality arts for Steemit.
My long term goal is to be able to influence the Trending page for the art tag at the blockchain so that the entire platform's content as blogging platform is lifted. But my current goal is to be able to connect to others, and to help them find their footing and their homes here, at Steemit :)
I already said you're in more than once but here's an official "you're in" with the others. Watch @m-sargon for details as I get this started.
omg thanks so muccccccccchhhhh :D
watches @m-sargon now
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First off @tcpolymath, this is an amazing thing you're doing for the community, and I personally want to thank you for caring enough to do it.
Beyond that I want to put a little weight behind @veryspider here. From the first day I got on the platform she's supported not only me, but the entire art community here. If you're an artist on Steemit, you know @veryspider, and more than likely she's supported you with an upvote as well as words of encouragement about your work.
She's not only a huge presence in curating and supporting artist but also a high quality and consistent contributor in her own right typically posting high quality original content daily. I hope you'll consider her for this opportunity :)
This is a really great project?!! It's rare to find something like this on Steemit, so thank you @tcpolymath for being awesome 👍.
I have to agree with @midlet here, @veryspider is really a great asset for Steemit community because she's really active, helpful, and positive individual who is also a very talented artist. She supports me and other artists with her exuberant comments, both on Discord and Steemit, and her presence brighten my days and motivate me to be a better artist and person.
She dedicates her time and attention to showcase undiscovered talent, often the posts that she resteemed get picked up by big curators, so I think those people agree with me.
I have witnessed that she means what she said about making the art tag on Steemit better, not only that she highlights good posts, @veryspider also fights with plagiarists regularly and she tries hard to educate artists who are unaware about the important issue.
And you should know that it takes me close to an hour to write serious comment like this because I fumble with words so I really mean what I said here :3.
spider, you have my sword, and my bow, and my axe!!!
(I don't have any of these items)
Edit: oh and if her Steem Power is not enough, I am quite happy to give some of mine to hers because then she will be indebted to me and pay me back with lovely comments huhuhu.
I've been a fan for a while, and you're definitely in. I feel like I should apologize to the people below for not getting to this comment right away.
As long as you're planning to convert it I'm fine with that.
Awesome! :D
Yessir, I definitely am itching to convert :D
Haven't taken SBDs out and no plans to do so :> I wanna ... I wanna gives cents to people XD Wonderful quality contents generators need to be appreciated!!
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congrats ;)
I think it’s commendable what you are doing. I don’t post very often and for some reason, am only inspired to write when I have something to say about Steemit! Lol, we know those kind of posts don’t pay for a small redfish (guess I am a minnow then with 400 SP?)
Can I nominate someone else? @davemccoy is the co-founder of our @newbieresteemday community. We started nearly 6 months ago with the goal of helping newbies and minnows grow on here by giving advice, mentorship, encouragement and a small upvote with the @newbieresteemday account. All of our members volunteer their time, SBD, or SP. Dave is the pillar of the community who is continuously helping others, myself included. I would have given up a long time ago if it hadn’t been for him, but instead I decided to stick around and even purchased more Steem. Many people have told us they would have quit themselves a long time ago if not for meeting our community.
I know Dave is at 350 SP and has not reached the 400 SP requirement yet. If this is a problem, I would happily purchase 50 STEEM on binance and send to his account. He does amazing things for others and I would happily do this for him so he can grow and continue to help others.
Edited: Forgot to mention Dave worked with danielsaori to create @dustsweeper, the friendly bot that gives the small upvote so a comment or post can meet the 0.02 dust threshold. There are many newbies and minnows that lose their 1cent vote and @dustsweeper comes in later to give value to the upvote given by a newbie. It let newbies know their voice matters, their upvote counts.
@davemccoy accepted. I don't know if all of you also want to watch @m-sargon but you're welcome to.
That is awesome @tcpolymath! I will stop by there to show my support.
Thank you very much @tcpolymath! I will check out @m-sargon! I love this initiative and commend you on what you are doing to help the next generation grow! :)
Well that's a hell of a recommendation. I certainly see Dave around everywhere and will be happy to consider him. Thanks for the nomination.
After looking at the people applying, I think you have a lot of strong candidates and I would be in tough competition with them. As such, I've decided to instead throw my support behind a bid for @davemccoy to be selected.
I truly believe that if you pick Dave for to be a part of this program, that the community will be better for it. Dave works tirelessly to help newbies and more-established folks alike to engage better, be more informed, and be more successful Steemians overall. He's a huge asset to the community, and in my opinion is the epitome of a community-builder. If you want to maximize your impact in the Steemit community with your VP, pointing it in Dave's direction is would be a fantastic decision.
Thanks for being such a great example to all of us, Dave!
Thank you very much Blondie! :)
You're welcome! I'm excited to see that you're going to get to be a part of the support program. You deserve it and I'm excited to see how far this takes you!
@themanwithnoname thank you very much Blondie!
Thanks @tcpolymath, that is awesome. 🙂
I mean every word of it too, if the SP threshold is a big factor of your criteria. There are not many people who help others unselfishly and I consider Dave to be one of those individuals. I would prefer to not buy more Steem until the next dip 😁, but will happily do so for him to qualify. I know every bit of support on here matters and what you are doing is an excellent initiative to supporting others.
I think we're in the next dip, lol.
Can it go down a bit more? Then it can soar as high as it wants. :)
I completely second @beeyou's nomination, @tcpolymath.
@davemccoy has done so many things for so many people,... I can't think of anyone else who would deserve this more. (And if necessary, I'll split the money to get his SP up with you, @beeyou.)
Hey @simplymike. I just saw your comment. Dave was accepted! Yay! We can save our Steem for steemmonster cards 😂
Thank you very much for the nice recommendation... I must've missed all this as I have been focusing too much on the steemonsters lately! :P You're awesome @beeyou :)
It’s not just me, you have a bunch of supporters. You just have to scroll down to see how much everyone appreciates all you do for the community! YOU are awesome. 🙂
@beeyou awww.... thank you for such a nice compliment! And for your help :)
Yay!!! 👍😂
And it’s awesome that Dave was accepted!
Hey @simplymike. I just saw your comment. Dave was accepted! Yay! We can save our Steem for steemmonster cards 😂
Thank you very much @simplymike! :)... we need to get on that game for newbie games, I have a hunch it will help many!
Okay, I'll start with my current stats, from my steemworld page SP levels:
598.37 SP ( 577.52 + 50.91 - 30.06 )
I have a native supply of SP of 577, and a delegation of 50Sp from @davemccoy, and I have a few small delegations I have made.
Item 1. covered.
Item 2. This is not easy. First off, I have to say that I am not really a content creator, I am primarily a content user. Most of the content I have created is for contest, and justbecause thingies I wanted to share, (music, videos, other peoples content).
I am however very much new user oriented. I like to help the new user, I love voting, giving my two cents and commenting. I have been a strong supporter of @newbieresteemday since its inception. Currently my longest running consistency since being on steemit, I will be issuing my week 22 post for newbiersteemday on Sunday.
I signed up for vote and comment tracking with Asher (@abh12345), not for the rewards, but initially to see where my level of engagement was on steemit. (I am sure you know but some reading this may not), that he provides a table showing us how well we are doing in engagement he has a formula that he developed and every week he runs his data pull and then shows us how well we did that week. In recent weeks,(its summer, nice weather), my engagement levels have slipped a little bit, but still doing pretty good I think.
@dustsweeper, this is one of the most important developments in steemit, and I fully support it, I have to let people know about it, and do so on a pretty regular basis.
I am involved in a very very community oriented game/challenge on steemit @IFC, it stands for Information Finding Championship, and was created by @apolymask. This is what probably 68 percent of my created content is for the last 6 months, it has been really fun, and it is a great group of people. (So any readers looking for some challenges and out the box/freestyle thinking, take a look at @IFC).
I participate in a few different Discord channels, and learned a lesson about spreading myself to thin, so I had to thin my discord channels out, will likely need to do that again pretty soon, I built up to having 14 discord channel, then thinned back to four, and now the numbers grow again. oh well, such is life.
Enough for number 2.
Number 3. My long term strategy has been to power up as much of my SBD's as I can into Steem then power that to SP. But the converting SBD's to steem, honestly has slacked off a little bit, because I have my slider, and well now I have a lot of things that I can help support with SBD's. It's a real conundrum, I want to pay myself, but I want to help others also. I have gifted a couple of Dustvote accounts for people, I like supporting with a small donation to FTG SOG and FOG accounts, I try to help with some contest rewards, and now I am getting into steemmonsters game, and there seems to always be someone or some organization that needs a little bit of help. So it is hard, I worked very hard getting to that 500SP level, so that the delegated SP to me could be redistributed to help someone else, and now that I am there, I am able to help in other manners, even though I know I need to pay myself, sometimes it is just a hard thing to do.
Damn, that ended up being longer than I thought it would - - Sorry - -
Congratulations, you're in. Watch @m-sargon for details as I get this started.
@tcpolymath, my small voice may not mean much but @bashadow is also a staunch supporter of @newbieresteemday. He has been with our community from the beginning and spreads his upvotes to newbies unselfishly. He also donates what SBDs he earns to the contests and community events. Very giving individual and I highly recommend both @bashadow and @davemccoy from our #newbieresteemday community.
Thank you @beeyou, it would be so great to up my two cents to a nickle, (if I did that then Dave would need to go to a dime), then it would be dime time for dave, that would be so great for him, I hope he gets a delegation also. I can see it now dave announcing, I think it's time for a dime, on comments.
Lol, I can see Dave doing just that when he gets big enough.
Hear ye Hear ye, Newbies & Minnows. Come share why we should come back to Steemit day after day and you will be rewarded Dave’s Dime! The double D’s 😁
DD2
Dave's Delightful Doable Dime
used to be a nickel one time.
He did not know of this chance
we all took up our Dave dance.
Make it happen make it so
Dave will make that nickel grow.
sorry for the distractor TC, just a little fun at Dave.
Love the poem @bashadow and congratulation on being accepted!! You and Dave both deserve this opportunity to grow.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that, thanks. yeah so maybe soon I will be like dave at nickel stage.
Thank you for the application. Long comments are great. I'll be reviewing all of these at once in a few days.
@bashadow is one of genuine caring souls I know on steemit. I find him in the places were newbies need help the most. He used to come a lot on my post that I thought he was a bot until we chatted one midnight on discord. His heart is in the right place.
Thank you for your vote of confidence @warpedpoetic, we do what we can with what we have. I hope to get back to reading on a more steady basis, but I do still try to get over and read at least once a week. So much going on at times.
I completely recommend @bashadown @tcpolymath! If you only have limited slots, you can take me out and put him in... He is terrific and I even delegate to him because he is always helping the newbies/minnows with his power! :)
Thank you dave, I'm in your in we are all in, well as many as tc could afford to let in. Thank you again for your vote of confidence, not sure what I signed up for, but will do my best to continue helping, maybe my 2 cents will be back at the 20% level soon instead of 30%+ at current steem price.
@bashadow I know whatever we need to do that you will be the best at it... You are very good in every group you participate in and I have no doubt you will be an asset in this too :)
Thanks, It looks like we pretty much keep doing what we have been for now. So it's back to work and no worries.
That's what I think too... If you hear of anything I should be doing, please let me know! And yes, back to work and of course never any worries!
That was from TC, on a comment I made to jan23com, about the Buddy up word of the week challenge, I declined the challenge, because I dd not want to be overcommitted again. I Still have a little bit of a full plate.
yes me too... I don't know how I will have time to do anything different, but I will just keep doing my best and I'm sure everything will work out fine! Thanks for the info, that is very good to know!
Well, this really is an amazing initiative. Talk about growing the community...
So, let's see -
I stand at 515 SP of my own, with an 100 SP delegation from @tarazkp.
First, I see myself as a content creator. I am a writer and over 90% of my stories are on this platform (and only here). Now, I strive to offer the community quality content.
I also love discovering talented writers, whom I support. My upvotes are largely based on talent and quality content, as opposed to upvote-for-upvote. I try to help good writers, many with a lower rep than myself, whom I feel don't get the rewards they deserve.
As for number 3, I am trying to grow my account. Some of the SBD in my wallet I intend on converting into STEEM once I get a good price. And some, I admit, is for my personal use, in case the SBD price goes up suddenly (like it did last winter), but hey, Steemit is my only income.
I plan on being here for a long time, since Steemit has provided me with rewards for my content and has helped me find other quality content creators. So naturally, my goal is to grow my account as much as I can.
Thank you for the application. I'll be reviewing these in a few days.
I'd like to put in a word for @honeydue: she is an amazing and prolific writer who is also genuinely and tirelessly devoted to reading and supporting other writers in the community, an integral part of the community here on Steemit.
@honeydue also has my support for this opportunity! She is very active in the freewrite community and is helping newbies along. She is one of the freewrite encouragers who are making such a big difference for the new writers coming to the project.
I'm sorry, you ended up not being selected. I wish you luck with your projects.
Wow, what a fantastic initiative! I'm running short on time this evening, so I'll try to keep this brief:
I'm currently at 524.997 SP, with an additional 29.267 SP delegated by my mentor, @carrieallen.
As a singer/songwriter, poet, fiction writer, and visual artist, I tend to be primarily a content creator, but I feel passionately about supporting other creatives, and the community of creatives on Steemit as a whole. My upvotes and comments go to creatives whose work I respect, and I'd love to be able to offer them more in the way of upvote strength. Via Steem Auto, I contribute votes to the curation trails for @curie, @openmic, @helpie, and @musicvoter, as well as upvoting all posts from @curie, @openmic, @helpie, @musicvoter, @ftlob, @poetsunited, @mariannewest, @atomcollector, @musicoin, and others. I have been, at various times, an active participant at the isleofwrite, and in the freewrite and open mic communities. I have a great idea for a contest that would involve artists working in pretty much any medium, from writing to visual arts to performance, but it has been on hold since I've been working on starting up a new business IRL for the past several months, so haven't had as much time to devote to Steemit. However, my schedule will be lightening up in the near future. In addition to the contest, and to spending more time commenting on and upvoting the amazing work I come across on Steemit, I would like to find ways of being active in curation, and particularly of supporting the writing community. There is so much fantastic work being posted in the daily freewrites, poetry, and fiction.
I'm definitely focused on growing my account. I've never taken anything out, in fact at one point I was able to invest a small amount of cash to grow my SP. I've been curied a number of times, as well as winning various contests and several large upvotes from dtube, and I've put all of that back into the platform. My plan is to keep going until I have enough accumulated SP to do some real good here.
Thank you for the application. I'll be looking at them in more detail in a few days.
Thank you very much for the mention!
Of course! Thank you for everything you do for the music community <3
I truly hope that you will be one of the recipients!! You do such great work! And I very much appreciate your support/vote!
Thank you Marianne! I appreciate everything you do for the writing community <3
I'm sorry, you ended up not being selected. I wish you luck with your projects.
I'm following you and I particularly look forward to seeing your multimedia project when you get it going.
No worries @tcpolymath, thanks for the consideration! This is a fantastic initiative. Following you as well :)
Nice initiative @tcpolymath, and thanks for supporting my team’s initiative, @archisteem.
I would like to nominate my partner @cklai to be under your minnow support. Hopefully he could make it :)
@cklai accepted.
Thanks for the acceptance @tcpolymath!
Thanks for the nomination, I'll look at these a little later but he seems like a good candidate.
No problem :) resteem on my page too, see if there’s any minnows out there wanna nominate themselves. Makes your job easier.
I'm loving the idea mate, it's a great initiative! And to me specifically, as a user with only 430 SP, this offer looks like a fantastic opportunity.
I'm an active member of the #comedyopenmic community, having been a judge on several occasions, one of my entries was the receiver of a @curie mini vote and another entry was the winner of the first place prize (~45SBD at the time). I now donate to the prize pool on occasion and curate entries.
Another community I'm involved in is the #utopian-io community, I often submit code which 90% of the time is approved and upvoted between $50-$160.
I power up almost all my SBD earnings and have never powered down before, I don't use bid bots or vote selling services either. I also plan to invest more outside money into steem (once I'm out of debt of course!)
Thank you for the application. I'll be reviewing them all at once in a few days.
I'm sorry, you ended up not being selected. I wish you luck with your projects.
Thanks man, maybe when your apprentices' have graduated, there'll be space for me :p