Hive account@welcoming? - What is that?

It's is an account with the sole purpose of finding promising newcomers in the #introduceyourself section and helping them with an upvote and a resteem. Hive account@welcoming will never post or comment anything - it only votes and resteems!

This service is not only great for them, but also for people who want to support some newbies, but don't want to dig through the masses of spam in the introduction area.

Up to date, around 400 introduction posts have been manually looked at and supported. If you haven't followed yet, that's no problem, there are many more resteems to come!

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What happened last week?

Last week was quite huge for the project - especially since whale Hive account@transisto decided to delegate 12,349 Steempower to Hive account@welcoming!

Yes, you heard right, 12,349 SP!!!

Together with Hive account@juicy-shark's delegation of 978 Steempower and Hive account@welcoming's own 743 SP, the service can therefore curate and support with 14,071 Steempower! That is awesome!

Hive account@transisto even goes a step further and doesn't want his share of the curation rewards - so the 87% of the curation rewards he would have got, stay in Hive account@welcoming!
Hive account@juicy-shark of course will receive his 7% of the curation rewards!

A huge THANK YOU to the delegators Hive account@transisto and Hive account@juicy-shark!!!

Another supporter I have to highlight again is Hive account@acidyo who is following and voting on most of the resteemd introductions!

Hive account@acidyo, thank you for your support too!

Besides discovering awesome introduction posts, I have also managed to discover a few cases of identity theft and reported them to Hive account@steemcleaners. (Watch this if you don't know Steemcleaners). I guess that's just another positive side effect of the manual curation :)

Thx to @WalnutJack, Hive account@welcoming has a cover image now! Do you love it as much as I do?

If you want to show him some support, THIS POST of him is about how he made the cover image!

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What is planned for the future?

The core funtion of the service is of course going to stay the same - Hive account@welcoming continuing to resteem the introduction posts of promising newbies.

I plan on voting posts with 66% once Hive account@welcoming hits 100% VP and voting/resteeming about 15-20 introduction posts per day. That way the VP would stay in high areas around 90-100%!

But one thing is on my mind - I really need your opinion here! Should I also upvote other introduction posts with smaller amounts?

There are many posts I don't feel are quite worthy a resteem (If I resteem more than 15 to 20/day, people will start to unfollow Hive account@welcoming cause it get's annoying!) - but would still deserve a upvote! I could lower the 66% from above to 50% and upvote 20 other introductions with 10% for example. Or 10 with 20%. And so on.

What do you think?

1. How many posts should I resteem per day? 10? 15? 20?

2. Should I also vote on introductions I don't resteem?

I really would like honest and well thought answers here. To underline the importance: The three best answers will each receive a 66% upvote from Hive account@theaustrianguy! With the current value of SBD, that is over 10$!

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How you can help:

• Follow Hive account@welcoming and upvote posts you like: This part doesn't need explanation I guess ;) Helping this platform grow will be one of the key things for it's future success!

• Delegate SP to Hive account@welcoming: You could also help the project by delegating some Steempower to Hive account@welcoming. I promise, that the account will never upvote anything else than manually curated introduction posts. Of course the curation rewards from Hive account@welcoming will be given to the delegators according to their percentage of the whole account's power!

• Upvote this post! Like I have done with the first post, all liquid rewards of this post will be converted to STEEM and powered up to the account Hive account@welcoming!

• Tell me your ideas! Do you have an idea what I could do better? Just tell me, when can talk about everything! Good ideas will of course be rewarded with an upvote!

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TL & DR

Hive account@welcoming is doing great, thx to a huge delegation from Hive account@transisto it's really powerful now and of course it will continue resteeming promising newcomers!