wiser whale announcement, part II

I believe a very important component of whalehood is helping out the little guy, or in this case, the little minnow. The way this works out practically is that the whale reads content from relatively new minnows and if the content is good, the whale upvotes it. This gives the minnow a boost in Steem power as well as encouragement to keep steeming.

But I'm a busy whale in training, and I have a lot going on in real life, which means I don't have the time to go out hunting for promising new content. I need the content to find its way to me.

To that end, all of you minnows who would like a wiser upvote, please tag your post with #wantwiserupvote

I will check that tag about once a day (with the understanding that there may be some days I don't get to it), and look over the content and see if it deserves an upvote. The criteria are admittedly arbitrary. I will vote for it if I like it.

I do have a few additional rules to keep it manageable.

1. Only one post a day. Make it your best one.
2. You have to actually be a small minnow and upvote your post. The value of your upvote needs to be less than one cent. This means when you upvote your post, it' still worth 0.00. This means that depending on the price of Steem, you have less than 2,000 SP. Once your vote is worth a cent, then you should be finding other small minnows to vote for :)
3. Although I am not one to insist on fancy formatting or a lot of images, please respect basic paragraphing, spelling, and grammar rules.
4. Nothing offensive, as in not safe for work. Although I do not go looking for these posts I do flag them if they find their way to me, and tend to unfollow, and sometimes block or mute, the author.

Every Steemit user gets 40 full strength up votes before voting strength starts seriously decreasing. At this point in my whale journey I am only voting with full strength, as in my slider stays at 100%. If you ever got a less than 100% vote from me it's only because I was trying out the slider. I'm done with that for now.

My plan is to reserve ten of these votes for myself. As I mentioned before, my midrange Steemit goal is to acquire enough Steem Power to make my vote worth 10c, which means I would vote for ten of my own posts or comments in order to guarantee I am earning a dollar a day.

My remaining 30 votes would be split fairly evenly between voting for content I see on #wantwiserupvote and voting for content I see in my feed and other random stuff. I'm not holding myself to that, but that's the general principle I'll be operating under.

If I like your content, I am likely to follow you, which means that you'll also get a shot at my upvote by showing up on my feed, where I might see your other posts that you couldn't tag with #wantwiserupvote

At this time my upvote isn't worth much. However, I have plans to keep buying more Steem Power, as well as earning it here, so it shouldn't be long before my up vote is worth at least a penny. When you're brand new to Steemit, even having a payout of a single penny can be encouraging.

I also want to invite anyone else, current whale or whale in training, to also check the #wantwiserupvote tag and vote on the content. If you plan to do this regularly, then please introduce yourself using the tag #votewithwiser

This post is set to power up 100%, as will all my posts be until I reach at least 20,000 SP, so all earnings from upvotes will go towards strengthening this initiative. Thank you all for reading.

Small minnows, I look forward to reading your posts :)