The Mesopotamians System Status, Week 6

This is a weekly update of the status of @themesopotamians system.

Things are picking up for sustainability, as we added 13.5 SP to the accounts this week and will add a whole bunch more next week as the Minnowbooster votes I bought with our Byteball money pay out. @particleman's delegation costs 7.5 Steem/week, so as long as we're growing above that rate it's at least slow progress. Byteball was a very nice present to the system, though, as it gave us a nice chunk of liquidity to use to grow the accounts and promote the curation posts at the same time.

I rebalanced the inactive accounts so that @themesopotamians now votes everyone in the system, while each inactive account's votes follow one of the active accounts. I'll probably be pulling my bandwidth delegation back from those and letting them run on their own next week.

We had our first level-up post this week, and will likely be seeing others soon. In light of that I've opened up applications for Level 1, and added a couple of new users already, bringing us to 40.

We also launched a private Discord for program members this week. I've been somewhat haphazard about inviting people to it, so please message me at tcpolymath#2171 if you want an invite.

ACCOUNT	LEVEL	STATUS	VOTING
@doctorworm	0-500 SP		Supporting 9 users
@particleman	0-500 SP		Supporting 20 users
@m-sargon	500-1100 SP		Supporting 11 users
@m-hammurabi	1100-1800 SP		Following @m-sargon
@m-ashurbanipal	1800-2700 SP		Following @particleman
@m-gilgamesh	2700-3800 SP		Following @doctorworm
@themesopotamians	3800-5000 SP		Voting all users

ACCOUNT	NATIVE SP	DELEGATED SP	SOURCE
@doctorworm	32.447	1505.306	@tcpolymath
@particleman	10.253	1518.323	Leased
@m-sargon	9.696	2003.744	@tcpolymath
@m-hammurabi	2.167	14.796	@tcpolymath
@m-ashurbanipal	2.249	14.796	@tcpolymath
@m-gilgamesh	2.249	14.796	@tcpolymath
@themesopotamians	6.709	64.826	@davemccoy

The Mesopotamians is a project to use ongoing support and gamification to encourage account growth and build a class of community-minded minnows and eventually dolphins. This project is run by @tcpolymath.

The Mesopotamians uses a six-level system of automated votes to encourage specific users to invest in their accounts and make community contributions. As a user progresses up the levels the value of vote they receive increases. Before advancing to each new level a user will be asked to envision, develop, and implement a new project with community benefit.

The Mesopotamians is an outgoing support initiative, not a vote-trading scheme. Support from our members is appreciated but not in any way required.

Users are chosen for the program by @tcpolymath in a completely-unfair and usually-opaque selection process based on what he thinks is important for the community and who he thinks would be a good dolphin someday. He's giving his own money away here so he's ok with that, but it's best to be upfront about it.