The Mesopotamians system status, week 9

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

Things have gone well here while I've been traveling, apart from the Steem price. Although there's a benefit to that as well - I have a bunch of USD stocked up and we're getting closer to the point where I can buy enough Steem to run the whole system. I'm in good shape at the moment to delegate to @m-hammurabi in a few weeks, and we'll see how things are going at that point in terms of price and automation. If things go badly in the price direction and well in the automation direction I might advance the timeline for the higher levels.

The system overall made a little over 12 SP this week, which should be a good baseline for where "natural" growth is right now, as I didn't bring any active keys with me, so no vote-buying. @particleman's delegation costs 7.5 Steem/week, so we're moving slowly ahead. (At this price point if I end up renewing it it will be cheaper, but that's a while yet.)

ACCOUNT	LEVEL	STATUS	VOTING
@doctorworm	0-500 SP		Supporting 17 users
@particleman	0-500 SP		Supporting 23 users
@m-sargon	500-1100 SP		Supporting 12 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	61.028	1506.985	@tcpolymath
@particleman	36.365	1520.017	Leased
@m-sargon	46.659	2005.979	@tcpolymath
@m-hammurabi	3.192
@m-ashurbanipal	3.299
@m-gilgamesh	3.305
@themesopotamians	31.879	50.086	@davemccoy
-	-	-	-
System	185.727	5083.067

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.