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RE: The Launch Of "Minnow-ASAP" Is Near! - Get Your Support Ready.

in #minnowasap7 years ago

I knew you'd be working on something. :)
I get you; one of the things that some of the pushes do is cut out those with less than 450. It's certainly slower going when they are lower. That's why I'm not being selective with my "For the Love of Comments" contests. I've had some amazing support from both mattclarke and simplymike on these, to be able to do them more often and to double what they get in delegation for the month.

There are two other things that could trip us up, I feel. One is at the lower end, with very new users. It's hard to tell whether they'll keep going or just lose interest and decided it's not for them. So I'm somewhat cautious of delegating if there's a risk of it sitting unused. So far every winner has gone on to make really good use of it. I've just finished round 4 and two of the winners have already passed 500, so I've been pleased with all selections. The first winner isn't as active as they used to be, but had great growth at the time which they still keep powered up. Anyway, the only thing I can really do for the new users is to let people know they can keep entering. This way I can see if newcomers are stayers. Any ideas yourself?

The other concern is that if so much help is thrown at users as redfish, then they get left to fend for themselves once the hit 500, they might suddenly find themselves not doing as well as they've become accustomed to then give up and power down. One of the ways I'm thinking to help balance this is by giving out SBI shares to the runners up as this will be a long term thing. I wonder if maybe encouraging them to go on to assist others as well will be helpful in keeping that motivation up. This is why I think the idea behind the drive is good, because we're saying that we want the minnows to be the middle class and the foundation, which hopefully illustrates the power that they will hold.

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Awesome work and good questions. Thank you!

Well, let's be honest. I won't use Minnow-ASAP, or my own "influence" to push a newcomer with ~10 Steem into minnowhood. I would never do something like that.

However, I don't want a limit of, say 450 Steem Power, to be eligible this, as I don't want to exclude people lower than that. Also, I won't push people who haven't showed their interest, and people who haven't proved themselves to be good candidates.

Let's use @cicisaja as an example. (Sorry for ruining the surprise but yeah, @cicisaja, you're on the list!)

Joined in January 2018 and have a total of 401 Steem Power. Sure, this user has more than 500 SP due to incoming delegations, but how awesome would it be to push her straight into minnowhood, so she had 500 Steem Power by herself? - That's what I'm going for.

I want this to be the motivation and encouragement these people need, to continue to be awesome. However, there are others who have less support but are doing a fantastic job already... And I want those people to get a nice "bonus", by pushing them. So they reach their goal even faster.

SBI-shares seems like a good idea to somehow "lock" people on STEEM. As long as they continue to produce content, they'll be rewarded for it due to the SBI-shares. So that's obviously a really great idea.

I have no intentions of pushing a small fish with 10 Steem Power into minnowhood out of the blue. I might be crazy, but not that crazy. They need to have some sort of credibility and they need to have somewhat "proved themselves" before I will consider anyone for a push.

I mean, even though donations are considered to be charity, this is not a charity event in that sense. I want this to be that extra small push these people need to continue on the right path.

So, all in all, one need to have some sort of criterias... Users must've done or achieved this or that to be eligible. I will most likely update Minnow-ASAP with more criterias, rules and whatever with time, but for now, I just want it to be "open for all". I'm looking forward to where it takes me and this project, and before I've seen how things turn out, I can't make necessary changes either.

Motivation is key. Motivation, inspiration and encouragement. I find that more important than the price of Steem itself. As long as we educate people, and teach them the ways to "steem", we will have a strong middle class in no time. :)

Congratulations to @cicisaja! A very good choice!
Thanks for your feedback and thoughts.

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I'm glad you agree. :)