Hey y'all, Nate here with an update to our plankton support project!
This is an update to our fundition proposal
Part of what we're doing here at Homesteaders Co-op (besides trying to rethink the internet retail economic model) is focusing on new steemians and helping them get established. We put a lot of stock in supporting people in our community because we understand that more active people on the chain makes it stronger, more valuable, more sustainable, and more appealing to other potential users. While we're particularly supporting people in the #homesteading, #permaculture, #sustainability, and related communities, these actions will benefit the entirety of Steem.
Our grassroots efforts here started organically and early in the Co-op's story. At first it was just a simple "hey, how are ya, check out what we're doing" campaign, and has morphed into a more organized community project with more formal welcome comments from our contributors, dedicated discord channels, and movements that are nothing short of community rally cries where we all swarm lovingly to support new folks. It has also meshed into our efforts to make delegations to new folks and to offer access to free and instant steem accounts that we can provide to folks.
This newsletter is an update and explanation of our mission and progress on that front, as well as a curation of the accounts we're supporting.
Updates:
Unleash the auto voter! We've started setting the auto voter on these small accounts. During the previous curation and introduction of this project, we found that earnings on the posts where we first met these new people on the platform were very good. Later post payouts were not. Realizing that financial incentive is part of the steem model, we've decided to give these accounts our consistent financial support. Rates will be adjusted as we grow and experiment with the new system.
Setting limits. Seeing how many people are coming to the platform and going inactive shortly after, we've found it unfortunately necessary to set limits. We've decided that after one month of inactivity, we will pull our delegation and auto vote settings. This is in an attempt to give support where it is going to be used.
At the time of this writing, the newbies we delegate to are 
Our standard delegation is 30 SP, so there's a total of 630 SP currently delegated from 
Unfortunately, seven of those users have fallen outside the one month inactivity limit.
That said, here's some posts by people to support. We hope you see value in these new steemians like we do!
The rest of our plankton haven't had any posts recently, so we'll be reaching out to them to see if they're doing okay here.
That's what's going on here on this end. We're always brainstorming and developing this idea and seeing how it grows. Thanks for reading our newbie curation and for helping us in supporting these young steemians! Of course, if you have a suggestion, let us know! If you find folks that you think could benefit from our support, we really want to know!
Be blessed.
Be fruitful.
Stay relevant.
Nate
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