For just under 60 days @benjojo has been delegating 90,000 Steem to the Minnow Support Project. We've used this steem to build an organization with just under 4000 unique members in a Discord Channel. An @minnowsupport project with 2800 followers. We've sent @siersod to STEEMFEST on behalf of the minnows. We've created about 10-12 smaller bots that have goals from curation, to increasing liberty, to supporting those that make the Minnow Support Project function. We're creating a steemit publishing house, spreading poetry, helping writers, giving language support, helping to feed Venezuelans, supporting disabled Australians, and a million other projects.
We have put out two Medal of Honor winners so far. @netuoso who created a central program to help manage all the various public accounts associated with Minnow Support Project. We called that bot MSP3K in honor of us reaching 3,000 people in Discord. We also awarded one to @crimsonclad and @followbtcnews for their work on the www.minnowsupportproject.org website, which is nothing less than stunning work.
We're building a radio station to be housed in our Discord channel. It's called mspwaves.com and it'll help spread the voice of the minnows in the pond to the larger Steemit Ocean. @sircork is helping to lead the charge there.
@benjojo has been exceptionally patient and wonderful towards us as we work to figure out how to grow the account, handle the growth, invite moderators, support new witnesses, deal with intollerable flaggers, teach a scammer a new way to act on the platform, and love us while we're learning to best fulfill the mission of growth hacking steemit and supporting new members with a community.
For personal reasons @benjojo has to start withdrawing some of his delegated SP. That started today and will continue each week for the the next 4 weeks by removing 5,000SP/week. After that time we have to reassess where we stand.
The eventual goal is to get and keep @minnowsupport at 100,000SP. If there is too little SP there isn't enough of a starting draw to drag minnows into the community. Too much SP and there are too many reasons to game the system. So, we're looking at having 100,000 SP on the public bot. There's a total of 115k SP on the account right now. 110k SP from delegations. 5k SP from posting and curation. With @benjojo planning on pulling at least 20,000 SP from the account we're going to be a little shy of our continued hope for 100,000 SP and we need to start planning for when @benjojo wants/needs to pull a further amount.
For those reasons we're reaching out to the community to support us. If you're a whale that isn't using all of your SP please consider delegating some of that to the public community account. If you're a whale or dolphin who is an active curator, but believes in the mission of the Minnow Support project please consider delegating a few thousand SP to the project. If you're just a minnow we'd love to work with you on donations even as small as 5-10 SP, but please don't delegate anything that would put you below 50 SP to make sure you always have enough power to act on the blockchain.
So, that's it. We need your help. Please click this link and delegate SP to help us continue the mission- https://mspdelegator.herokuapp.com/
And if you see @benjojo out there please send him love and support because he has been and continues to be a magnificent benefactor to this project and on behalf of all the minnows I'll share we are intensely grateful! Thanks bud. You're the best!