So there was overwhelming support for once daily voting, so that change will go forward in the morning when I get home from work and have access the bot.

Voting Changes

The once daily vote will be the same as qurator in that once daily will mean every 22hrs, this will give people a chance to post around the same time everyday and get the vote, if for some reason you are early for you window, usually an edit will re trigger a vote, so please give that a try before reaching out to me for missed votes.

The reason for the change is that it was felt that content quality was slipping and people were feeling forced to post twice a day a get there votes and often lead to poor quality.

For the first 24-48 hrs the weights will remain unchanged and this will give Stax and chance to recover her power finally. Then they will be increased, but likely at an amount around 1.5x the current amounts. Therefore the gold tier which is currently 36% will become something like 50% and so forth down the line.

I also think there is benefit in the future to do a bit more manual voting to help support contests and good content here on the tag, this will also support some of the smaller and non-tiered members. I've been unable to do this much with the voting power being so low and still sitting around 85% despite the recent changes.

Minnow Support

I know there has been discussion and comments about Stax's no longer supporting minnows and new members but in fact she is and any member on the current community list which is now hosted by @silverstackerUK has the chance to get a vote currently at 1% or $0.28. All they need to do it a commit 1 daily 100% upvote to Stax's Post just like everyone else. Anyone with less than 100SP is only casting a $0.03, 100% upvote so this is a great way to support the minnows.

I also think with the new build we have the option to add some more minnow tiers as well, please see below.

For people on the tag like @silverfortune or @ajain (sorry to single you guys out, but I'm following a train of though from the comments yesteday) that are making consistent content on the tag, the exact same things applies, just start casting daily 100% vote for Stax.

I've been looking at new tools and I'm pretty sure if I use steemreports I can quickly check if someone is voting for Stax and likely add new members on a weekly basis if they have been voting for the last 7 days.

Tiers

Now that I'm getting the hang of the new build it is quite easy to add more tiers so I think there's the opportunity to add some more "minnow" tiers and maybe accept some very small donations or delegations for them and also allow bigger members to sponsor them for the month. Maybe a 1SBD/Steem donation could get a 2%vote and 5SBD/STEEM donation could get someone a 5% vote.

We should also be able to add a tier between the current nickel and silver tier since the difference between a 250SP and 1000SP delegation is massive and I know some members were asking about 500SP Delegations.

I also hope to move towards promoting more delegations from within the community. Stax continues to also be able to almost fund the total ongoing lease from @mattclarke. Otherwise the delegation market has become very problematic and we paid much higher rates for our current 20 000SP additional amount so I don't think we are making very good use of the additional donations.

I would like to only use donations for a few gold members if needed at the end of the month and perhaps for the minnow tiers, but hope to move fully towards delegations in the future.

We do currently have just over 12 000SP delegated from within the community and that's only from 30 members. Just think if the other 50 members were also able to try to delegate at least 100SP, that's an additional 5000 SP. I think delegating of SP also shows a long term commitment to platform from members who are vesting their steem.

I need to sit down and re crunch all these numbers before I have anything more concrete, but I think it will help everyone and make Stax's voting more inclusive.

Anyways I hope everyone is satisfied with the discussion today and please as always leave any further feedback