Hi Everyone!!!

I hope you've all had a great weekend, and are ready to have an awesome week!! I had a great weekend, and am getting closer to my target voting power of 95%, currently in the low 90's, which was an awesome decade for pop music, some would say!!

While my power is increasing, the STEEM price has come down some way, and so my upvote value has dropped off a bit... When STEEM gets back up, we'll all be smiling again!! I'm holding my settings steady for a short while longer to get my voting power right up over the 95% mark, before making any moves.

Here is a quick update on my settings...

Voting settings

Every account I upvote a post for has a 22 hour timeout before I can vote for them again. This means that if you post within 22 hours of me voting your previous post, that post will be skipped. You can however wait for the 22 hours to elapse, and then update your post, which will be picked up by my voting engine and you will receive your vote.

Here is a summary of my voting settings:

1. Prizewinners Upvotes: Upvotes for my prizewinners are at 26% for now, with an upvote of $0.36, and 1 upvote per 22 hours.
2. Delegator Upvotes: My upvote for my delegators stays at 32% , with an upvote value up at $0.44, and also 1 upvote per 22 hours.
3. Community follow votes: #thealliance is my exclusive upvote community. My upvote count is up, and I'm super glad to be able to support such an awesome community. Upvotes at 8%, with a value of $0.12, with one upvote per 22 hours. The Alliance has made a few really good structural changes recently, which means that my upvote count may increase quite a lot here. I may need to reduce this % to accommodate the increased community base which I will be supporting. All these community members are putting out great content, and really support each other well, so it is an honor for me to be able to support them all.

If my voting power does get too high, my master @bmj may also use my excess voting power to manually curate some of my supporters' posts. If I am peaking to often, then my voting settings will be revised accordingly.

**These upvote values are indicative values, taken from www.steemnow.com.

Join Team #STSL

My team of delegators allow me to continue on my mission to Share The Steem Love by delegating some of their spare Steem Power to me. Without them I would not be able to upvote nearly as many posts, and support the members of the community who win my competitions, or who are part of the The Alliance.

This week I have a new member of Team #stsl to welcome. @chrismiller has joined the team, and we are super proud to have him on board!! Welcome to the team!!! Please head over to @chrismiller's blog and show him some love.

Team #STSL is:

@flipstar, @bmj, @underground, @cheeto.blue, @ghoba.handcrafts, @shellyduncan, @buggedout, @foovler, @phelimint, @ausbitbank, @tomekkk, @ryivhnn, @jackmiller, @buzzbergeek, @ecoinstant, @gniksivart, @chrismiller

It is really easy to join my team. All you need to do to support me is to delegate some of your SP, if you have some to spare. At the moment a delegation of 150 SP is the minimum, until I setup my delegation tiers a little further down the line..

By delegating to my mission, you help me to support Steemians who are putting in the effort to create good content, and allow me to give bigger rewards to my competition winners, who are nominated for their great work. You also get an upvote back from me as a thank you for your support.

Delegation Tiers Coming

My voting power is a little up and down right now, but I will eventually be delegation tiers once I have settled down. This will reward higher delegators with higher upvotes, but will also cater for accounts with less SP to spare, to enable them to join my team and receive upvotes from me to help their accounts grow. More on this at a later date...

How to delegate

Delegation has never been easier, with a number of tools available to hep you. One really good tool which has recently been created comes from @yabapmatt, at steembottracker.com.

All you have to do is follow the instructions onscreen to delegate your SP. Remember your account is the delegator, and @stsl is the delegtee :)

You can also download the Vessel Desktop Wallet to manage your delegations. You can find the installer here.

Or, if you would like to use the steemconnect delegation tool, you can follow these links:

To delegate 150 SP to my mission, copy and paste the following URL into your browser, replacing USERNAME with your Steemit account name:
https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=USERNAME&delegatee=stsl&vesting_shares=306885.090802%20VESTS

To delegate 250 SP to my mission, copy and paste the following URL into your browser, replacing USERNAME with your Steemit account name:

https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=USERNAME&delegatee=stsl&vesting_shares=511475.144222%20VESTS

To delegate 500 SP to my mission, copy and paste the following URL into your browser, replacing USERNAME with your Steemit account name:

https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=USERNAME&delegatee=stsl&vesting_shares=1022950.277776%20VESTS

SP Leases

I also lease some SP with the rewards I earn from my posts, but with the scarcity and high premium of leases, my current leases may not be sustainable much longer. You can help me sustain my leases, and lease more SP just by upvoting my posts to help me earn more rewards. All my SBD rewards get fed into prizes and SP leases to give my supporters, prizewinners, and the communities I support a bigger upvote. Thank you to everyone who is supporting me so well on my mission!!

Share The Steem Love Competition

Share the Steem Love Competition No 15 on, and the competition is really hot at my competition post. There are only a few days to go, so go over there and show some support to your favourite nominations by upvoting them.

ENTER HERE

You can only enter the competition on the post itself, and not on my status reports

That's all from me for today. Have a great week everyone!!!

Until next time...