Hello everyone!!

Who wants to win some SBDs, and upvotes for 60 days from me? Of course you do!! So head on over to my Share The Steem Love Competition No 18 Post, and follow the instructions to enter. You know you want to!!

How about a few Mission stats?

It's been a great week for my #stsl mission, to Share The Steem Love. In the last 7 days I have upvoted 770 posts, and 191 unique authors as part of my support for my delegators, prizewinners, and #thealliance members. In the last 30 days, that number is 3200 upvotes on 238 unique authors.

In the 7 months I have been on my mission, I have upvoted 16886 posts and comments, and 657 unique authors. I am looking forward to seeing both number grow as my misison to Share The Steem Love continues!

Share The Steem Love Competition

Get yourself over to my competition post here](https://steemit.com/stsl/@stsl/win-sbd-and-upvotes-for-60-days-shar-ethe-steem-love-competition-no-18-is-now-live), and show your support. While you're there, you may want to nominate a fellow blogger who is making a valuable contribution to your community and deserves a few extra upvotes. If you win, you and your nominee receive some SBD, and upvotes for 60 days from me. We have a single entry in so far, so you're in with a good chance if you enter. It's never too late!!

My current competition winners receiving upvotes from me are:

• Comp 14 - 29-01-2018 to 28-03-2018 - @brainz and @zoneboy
• Comp 15 - 08-02-2018 to 07-04-2018 - @wdoutjah and @tpkidkai
  -Comp 16 - 21-02-2018 to 20-04-2018 - @ijele and @blinks (Euronation - Nigeria)
• Comp 17 - 06-03-2018 to 05-05-2018 - @allerie00 and @ankarlie (steemitfamilyph - Philippines)
• Comp 18 - You, perhaps?

My Voting settings

My voting power has been staying in a good range between 92 and 97%, and so I will keep my settings as is for now. The Steem price isn't helping my upvote value at all, but when my value is down, so is everyone else's. We just have to keep Steeming on until things get better again. And they will!!

Here is a snapshot of my settings:

My voting settings will only vote for one new post per account, per 22 hours. That means I will only vote for your post if it is created or edited 22 hours after my upvote for you previous post.

Current Voting Settings:

1. Prizewinners Upvotes: Winners of my #stsl competitions win upvotes from me for 60 days. Upvotes for my prizewinners returns to 24%, with an upvote value of $0.17, and 1 upvote per 22 hours.
2. Delegator Upvotes: These are the awesome members of Team #STSL, who delegate their Steem Power to me, and help me on my mission. My upvote for my delegators is staying at 36%, with an upvote value of $0.25, and also 1 upvote per 22 hours.
3. Community follow votes: #thealliance is my exclusive upvote community. With a member count of close to 200 dedicated to adding value, and great content to the platform, it is such a privilege to be able to support this community. My upvotes are set at 4%, with a value of $0.03, with one upvote per 22 hours.
4. Exclusive #thealliance Members 50 SP Delegators Tier: This is a new tier which will give members of #thealliance an upvote of 8%, currently valued at $0.06, with one upvote per 22 hours. #thealliance has a proven record of keeping each other accountable for posting good quality content, and engaging positively with their communities. If you're a #thealliance member, and would like to join my delegation team on this tier, click here to delegate 50SP, and let @bmj know on the #thealliance Discord Server.

My voting power is fairly stable, and does go up and down a bit. If it gets a bit too close to 100%, @bmj will step in with a bit of manual curation on some of my supporters' posts. If this happens a bit too often, then myh voting settings will be adjusted to keep me upvoting you at the best possible strength to maintaining my power withing the 92 to 97% range.

**These upvote values are indicative values, based on my current voting power as calculated on www.steemnow.com.

Join Team #STSL

Team #stsl is an awesome group of people who support my mission to Share The Steem Love, and support creators of good quality content here on the Steem platform. Without the generous delegations of Steem Power from my team, my mission would not be possible.

Team #STSL is:

@flipstar, @bmj, @underground, @ghoba.handcrafts,
@shellyduncan, @buggedout, @foovler, @phelimint, @ausbitbank, @tomekkk,
@ryivhnn, @jackmiller, @buzzbergeek, @ecoinstant,@gniksivart, @chrismiller,
@jpederson96, @family.life, @superoo7, @killerwhale

This week @cheeto.blue has moved on to new things, and I wish him all the best wherever he goes. Thank you for all your support during my my journey right from the start of my mission!

How do you join Team #STSL?

If you would like to help me on my mission to Share The Steem Love, all you need to do is delegate some of your SP, if you have some to spare. At the moment a delegation of 150 SP is the minimum, but I may setup my delegation tiers a little further down the line... This enables me to Share the Steem Love to many community members, without devaluing my upvotes to my prizewinners and team of delegators.

In return for your delegation, you not only help me on my mission, but you also get an upvote form me once a day on your post, currently worth $0.25. That's a pretty good return for 150 SP delegation. An upvote with 150 SP on its own is $0.03, so that's close to 10 x higher return.

How to delegate

Delegation has never been easier, with a number of great tools available to hep you get the job done. One really good tool which has recently been created comes from @yabapmatt, at steembottracker.com. This one lists all your delegations, and allows you to manage them quite easily.

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

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, click here.

To delegate 250 SP to my mission, click here.

If you're really feeling the love, and would like to give my mission a massive boooooost!!! and delegate 500 SP to my mission, click here.

That's all from me for today. Have a great weekend everyone, and don't forget to go over to my competition post and show your support!

Until next time...