Seasons greetings all, Stewards of Gondor, and Lord of the Steem

Peace and goodwill to all men and women, up-voters and down-voters, curators and spammers.... yeah not really sure where this is going!

Anyways! The new year is almost upon us, and 2018 promises to be a fantastic year in Steemland. Before we commence the new year, lets take a look back at how the Stewards of Gondor have hopefully been spreading the Christmas cheer over festive season...

If you are not aware, @fulltimegeek, aka Lord of the Steems has delegated almost all of his Steem Power to the list of people below. If you have recieved an upvote from myself, or anyone else on this list over the past few weeks, then you have @fulltimegeek to thank for vastly larger vote you have received.

If you wish to know 'why?' someone would loan out a million dollars (woooohaaaa damn!) of Steem Power, you can find out here.

Also, if you would like to see and hear just how appreciative the community is for this, @lyndsaybowes can sing it to ya - awesome job Lyndsay!

It is with great honor that I bring you this weeks statistics, the columns are as follows:

Steward: Steem Username
Posts: Number of Top level posts in the past 7 days
Comments: Number of comments made in the past 7 days
Com_len: Total character length of all comments (excluding posts)
Wit_v: Number of Witnesses voted for
Votes: Total number of votes made in the past 7 days
Unique_v: Total number of votes made to different authors in the past 7 days
Self_v: Number of self-votes made in the past 7 days
Down_v: Number of down-votes made in the past 7 days

Name	Posts	Comments	Com_len	Wit_v	Votes	Unique_v	Self_v	Down_v
@abh12345	9	317	48810	27	960	399	8	2
@c0ff33a	6	167	23790	27	370	80	6	0
@carlgnash	5	93	23638	29	858	509	1	0
@cecicastor	1	284	37249	5	1095	388	0	0
@cheneats	5	83	13739	0	139	36	0	0
@coincentrado	6	39	5026	0	177	127	6	3
@coolguy123	15	96	15772	30	1884	1198	8	1
@cranium	35	648	103535	5	806	165	38	0
@crimsonclad	3	86	13224	*	1115	364	2	0
@dakini5d	21	210	35851	0	652	341	60	0
@davedickeyyall	14	213	24663	30	456	183	12	1
@drakos	8	89	11192	30	251	148	10	0
@earthmother	7	66	8991	0	143	39	0	0
@fabiyamada	6	142	19062	11	293	114	6	0
@flauwy	12	166	22281	9	253	142	12	3
@frankbacon	3	74	12706	0	164	66	2	0
@geekpowered	5	41	11162	0	314	179	5	18
@goldendawne	14	393	69829	13	312	188	0	0
@greenrun	13	544	46801	5	432	211	1	0
@hendrix22	7	88	13006	15	183	78	12	2
@hitmeasap	13	135	39931	11	1825	613	13	8
@howtostartablog	16	125	7159	13	509	211	0	0
@ienrikex	2	3	1465	3	569	349	4	0
@inquiringtimes	1	21	2073	29	192	112	1	0
@kubbyelizabeth	8	270	29777	20	776	280	8	0
@littleboy	8	38	5733	6	171	70	27	64
@luisucv34	3	42	4150	16	926	477	3	0
@luming	14	98	16328	7	224	122	14	0
@lyndsaybowes	7	306	35718	30	836	177	0	245
@markwhittam	0	25	4479	2	182	83	0	0
@marxrab	8	83	13228	2	931	251	8	1
@mikepm74	11	115	56393	26	261	152	9	0
@mountainjewel	13	180	30101	0	166	83	17	0
@old-guy-photos	10	232	17701	3	265	83	9	0
@openmic	0	2	396	0	215	165	0	0
@orcheva	8	5	189	10	99	37	0	0
@paulag	8	50	4344	9	188	105	44	0
@public-eye	3	32	24190	5	94	30	1	8
@reko	9	85	11054	28	510	247	0	0
@skycae	7	98	15790	0	116	69	7	0
@stackin	12	253	17170	9	1490	435	12	0
@steembusiness	7	144	22456	*	567	241	11	0
@steemitqa	5	164	8959	14	477	156	10	1
@taskmaster4450	17	376	138666	2	694	322	16	0
@teamhumble	9	216	32028	30	636	227	4	0
@tommycordero	2	3	449	10	49	46	3	2
@votovzla	3	101	35956	10	162	109	10	0
@wwf	13	132	60023	13	213	67	1	2
@yagoub	5	139	26403	0	173	67	65	0

_{The table can be copy/pasted into excel for sorting and further analysis}

_{If you think you are missing part of the table, use Chrome or let me know and I will add a screenshot}

_{Data extracted from @arcange's SteemSQL DB at 9:30 am CET - 27th December 2017}

_{(@steembusiness witness proxy @reggaemuffin | @crimsonclad witness proxy @followbtcnews)}

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This week, the Stewards have written a total of 7312 comments and cast 24373 up-votes.

Last week these totals were 7645 and 22835 respectively.

I suspect time has been a factor this week, which could explain the slight fall in comment numbers. However, the up-vote total has risen, sweet!

Star Stewards

@greenrun and @cranium for topping 500 comments in the past 7 days - hail keyboards!

@taskmaster4450, who has written comments totaling a humongous 138,666 characters - amazing!

@cecicastor, @stackin, @coolguy123, @crimsonclad, and @hitmeasap, all handing out over 1000 votes this past week - up-vote legends!

@coolguy123 - Master steward of goodwill to all (again!), reaching almost 1200 different Steemians with his votes - sharing the love!

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So Stewards, how do you think you've done this week?

And budding Stewards - Do you think you've got what it takes? Would the numbers speak kindly of you?

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@fulltimegeek - Thank you so much for your selflessness and support this Christmas. You have and are currently changing lives for the better. Thank you!

Merry Christmas all, and cheers to an awesome 2018!

Asher @abh12345