So this voting checking thing has been the hardest part but it's back on track.
Voting Audit
So I found a great new tool here that shows how many times/month everyone has voted on silvergoldbotty, it will work the same as steemvp. Thanks to @jlordc for his comment yesterday.
So for the sake of transpancy, here is the list for the last month, please check it out.
So now what do I do?
If you take a look we can see that only 51 members have voted at least 27 times or more representing voting on a least 90% of posts, while 33 people have voted on all 30 post.
We all decided that voting daily at 100% was mandatory to continue receiving votes, but I feel 90% is likely good enough, auto-voters were down for a bit and 90% is pretty good.
So what do we do with the others that have voted less than 90%?
It's isn't many really, but a few have delegated or donated to higher levels?
I have an idea to have them donate an amount equal to the lost votes in SBD.
Example: member has 100SP, thus a $0.05 vote and if they missed 20 posts that would be an additional fee of $1, to be paid in SBD due to the fact votes on post are rewarded to Stax in the form of SBD (1:1USD)
What does everyone think of this idea and if they decline or don't make contact we just remove them from voting?
Is this too harsh? Sometimes I worry I'm too nice for the job...lol.
Donations and Delegations
Otherwise as previously discussed anyone that has met the minimum voting amount will receive a 1% vote from Stax daily and be eligible to obtain a tier promotion if they chose to delegate or donate.
Here are the proposed tiers for delegations and donations.
| Tier Title | Delegation | Donation | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 2500SP | 100Steem | 60% |
| Silver | 1000SP | 50Steem | 30% |
| Nickel | 500SP | 25Steem | 15% |
| Copper | 250SP | 10Steem | 8% |
| Lead | 100SP | 5Steem | 4% |
| Zinc | 50SP | 2.5Steem | 2% |
| Member | 0 | 0 | 1% |
Please remember it is also mandatory to be voting on Stax's daily posts at 100% to be getting your return vote.
As I mentioned before I also though we could open it up to more members if we could sponsor members to higher tiers. This can be done with a donation or delegation, but I would limit it too, Copper, Lead and Zinc tiers.
We will also be keeping the @raybrockman member of the week who will be placed at silver tier for one week, and can be picked with whatever criteria he chooses.
For anyone that wants to delegate here are the appropriate links, just remember to replace USERNAME with your username
You can also use this Tool below to delegate.
http://steembottracker.com/delegation.html
Or this tool if you want to run a vessel application yourself.
https://github.com/aaroncox/vessel/releases/tag/v0.2.6
We will continue to accept donations also, but delegations are much preferred and depending on the ability to obtain a lease this month, this option my be removed in the future or credit for donations may need to further decrease, so it's advisable to start working towards you delegated power goal (plus it just makes more sense long term).
Lastly I have some bad news about manual voting, it seams that even when Stax's casts a manual bonus vote on a comment on any post, it resets the vote timer for that user
Thus when I cast all those bonus votes yesterday, it reset and messed up everyone's timer, this may be an issue if it was close to your 24hr period rolling over. If that's the case let me know and we'll work something out, and I can manually catch up at the same time as one of your future votes/posts, or just give one larger vote to compensate.
Thanks again for all the help and feedback and we grow together and get this all figured out
