It was a great opportunity tonight to clarify some confusion within the community here. Thanks to everyone who participated and for being so understanding.

The biggest issue was the bot ownership and what community bot really meant. Unfortunately these were vague and never defined from the start which obviously lead to confusion and may have lead to people being more supportive of the project then they normally would have.

It was always my @phelimint’s understanding that, as the one programming and running the bot, I was thus ultimately the owner and the bot’s purpose would be to support the steemsilvergold community. She gave members the opportunity to donate and delegate for a return on investment and also provided a small vote to new users on steemit to help with recruitment efforts for our tag. To me community meant exclusivity and support but did not relate to ownership. She will retain her current SP and not be powered down and she will be allowed to continue to grow, knowing this inherent SP is being used to return votes to the community.

This lack of clarity likely lead some members to support her more heavily than they otherwise would have and likely altered the outcome of some of the ongoing decisions and votes from within the community.

The decision to cast a daily 100% vote to Stax by all community members appears to be one of the decisions. People would have been unlikely to suggest and vote this measure and therefore it will be stopped.

The vote that @phelimint was receiving was likely decided based on this false assumption as well. Therefore I returned 300Steem to Stax, which will be then returned to community members who have been affected by the false assumption above.

If you feel you have over donated or over supported with your votes, please let me know and I will work on an appropriate distribution for the 300 STEEM.

I have also increased my delegation to Stax to 2500SP and will forgo any further votes from her. I will only be her programming and supporter and will no benefit directly from her votes.

I will also suggest the following changes at this time based on feedback from the discussion, anyone who wishes to vote on Stax’s post going forward will cast a vote based on their individual level of SP. If you have less than 500SP then the value is 100%, but for members with more SP we will use the following calculation; 50 000/(your active SP)= Your minimum return vote. (Active SP is SP you have for voting after any incoming and outgoing delegations). Thus if you have 10 000SP, your vote would be 50 000/10 000=5% and etc. This should help make it fair for everyone.

There was also concerns regarding the quality of Stax’s post, and I will determine a standard format to follow for all future postto ensure they provide quality and value to the community and they will also always include a second chance post and going forward that post will also be resteemed daily.

I will work with any interested community members to incorporate other changes based on their feedback. I know we will likely need to consider some changes to membership, tiers and donations/delegation going forward.

I hope that Stax’s can continue to be a valuable asset and benefit to the steemsilvergold community.