Hey UpvoteBuilders,
Welcome to Upvotebuilders, the community where you receive boosted upvotes daily according to your membership level. Membership level is determined by your SP delegate to the community pool. You can upgrade, downgrade and undelegate anytime you please. We run contest regularly and you can participate in them to win double upvotes or next-level upvotes daily. Just been a member of the community gives you the privilege to participate, this is just an extra benefit of your membership.
News Updates:
Palcoin Post & Tag
Yesterday I informed us that we got 199 palcoin airdrop for the community account and that it had been claimed. I also mentioned that I’ll be doing our upvotebuilders from the palnet.io platform and including the #palnet tag so that we see how lucky we get earning more palcoin via authors reward and curation of members, this doesn’t affect our earnings on Steemit.com in anyway. We’ll just be earning from both platforms.
Upvotebuilders First Post From Palnet
Upvotebuilders Steemit Post Earning
The Palcoin might not look much to you right now, but with continuous staking of what we receive and upvoting a lot of our members that have also staked their palcoin, we should see something better in the future, hopefully.
The Big News
Yesterday I asked us to check today for The Big News. Well it is just actions we have to take now to ensure that we are positioning the community to be sustainable, grow in reward delivery to its members and take full advantages of the changes that are happening and will happen in the future.
In less than a week of implementing the membership level voting rate, I can say the result has been more successful than I had. Our 100% voting weight is now in the range of $0.38 to $0.41 instead of the $0.31 to $0.34 range we were hitting. The best part of this is that it keeps improving. I had thought that after a week our VP will be voting in the range of 81% to 90% which should deliver $0.35 to $0.39+ upvote at full voting weight as mentioned last week. But we are currently doing 87% to 92%.
AS WE ARE
We have a 3 month 1000 SP lease that was donated by our big sponsor and it will be expiring next month, we need to prepare for that.
I have been supporting as regards financing the renewal of most the leased SP that are about to expire of recent because our upvotes and curation rewards are not enough to cover the cost.
I funded the leasing of 3900 SP for the second account to help to help lift the pressure on our main account and judge 
A new change is expected from HF21 which should see curation at 50%/50%.
Average curation SP daily stands at 5.22 SP (using last 5 days starting from 6th June).
Average curation SP daily stands at 0.35 SP (using last 5 days starting from 6th June).
Average curation SBD daily stands at 0.13 SBD (using last 5 days starting from 6th June).
Current 
52.79 Steem is needed to extend all leased SP on
78.015 Steem is needed to extend all leased SP on 
Combined required Steem needed for the two accounts SP lease for 4 weeks is 130.808 Steem.
GOING FORWARD
We are heading to the level where we will be sustainable and be able to reward our members greatly as we keep growing. At the start of the community, we were meant to reward members from curation rewards but the reality on ground i.e. funding for SP lease renewal and low earning made a pause to that necessary.
While I will continue to provide funding where necessary to keep the community running until it attains sustainability levels. Here are actions been taken to help us move forward, overcome pending challenges and be ready to seize the pending opportunities from the changes that are head of us.
It pays the community that it is upvoting members at a reasonably rewarding manner as that also grows the community account and makes us bigger and better. Your success is our success. Together we form an awesome power for the benefit of all.
I ask that you read carefully and understand these actions. Thank you.
Steps
With an average daily curation at 5.22 SP it means that in 91 days (13 weeks) the community would receive 475 SP in curation reward. Bear in mind that authors reward and SBD reward are not included in this calculation.
It means 475 SP curation is what we can earn in total in 91 days time assuming everything remains the same i.e. no growth. A 450 SP power down will generate 34.62 weekly i.e. 450/13 = 34.62 which will translate to 138.46 every 4 weeks. This action will offset any pending SP renewal and also give us leverage to increase our SP via SBD the rewards.
We will now be leasing SP in smaller sizes 50 to 200 and on 12 weeks leasing plan because it offers cheaper SP lease and we will gradually be doing away with the larger leases as they were acquired at higher cost at 4 weeks and a drop in them usually affects the VP as that size is noticeable compared to a drop in 50 to 200 SP.
As an instance to the paragraph above and to support the push for 12 weeks lease instead of 4 weeks. The 1000 SP we leased for 12 weeks was at a cost of 50.42 Steem at an APR of over 18.6% which translates to 16.807 Steem for 4 weeks. Leasing 1000 SP for 4 weeks at the same APR of 18.6% will cost us 18.692. It means we saved 1.885 Steem by choosing the 12 weeks plan over the 4 weeks plan. That may appear small but when you look at all the lease we have going you’ll discover it is a substantial amount.
12 weeks 1000 SP lease
4 week 1000 SP lease
To clarify, this is just to demonstrate that the 12 weeks leasing plan is cheaper than the 4 weeks leasing plan. However, we will stick with leasing smaller sizes so that we can afford longer term leases.
I will start manually upvoting
The 400 SP 
We are a growing community and I very much appreciate your support always and that is what is giving me the strength I need to continue pushing the community to greater heights.
With the steps and as we progress I am hoping we will return to our initial plan of rewarding members not only with upvotes but also with curation rewards as planned at the beginning. A lot of things are coming our way, the 50% curation rewards will really have a positive effect on the community, which why we need to grow above where we are before they start kicking off.
I greatly thank every member that has supported this community and have show love in all the ways have. We are marching forward to greater levels.
Post Promotion
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Steem Basic Income (SBI) Shares
Members can also support us with Steem Basic Income (SBI) shares donation, SBI shares guarantees that the community post receives upvotes and the more SBI shares we have the higher the reward value we receive through upvotes. It is a very sustainable way of growing the community and Steem at large. You can read more about SBI in the link below:
https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@steembasicincome/frequently-asked-questions
Our current SBI share is numbers are 79, see details of the donors below.
Please inform admin in the comment section of the latest post so that we can update the names of donors and properly thank you for your good gesture to the community. Thank you.
Steem Basic Income (SBI) Donations Received
Anonymous - 5
We thank you all for your donations and really appreciate you.
Membership Upgrade
Some members have been kind enough to upgrade their membership by delegating additional SP to their current delegated SP. This is really helping to grow the community SP which in turn grows the value of our upvotes.
Membership SP delegation will help reduced our reliance on leasing SP. Help us grow this community to encourage the content creators that are poorly rewarded through the upvote value they receive. So we need the big time delegators to join us and reap the benefits available for all members.
Upvotebuilders Animated Banner
If you’ll like to use our banner to further promote the community in your post, here it is below, we always appreciate your effort in growing the community.
Posts And Mentions
We are extremely grateful to members that have been spreading the word about the community through their post and mentions. This is indeed helping to promote and advertise the community to a broader audience. Your efforts are much appreciated as this is cheaper than using bid-bots.
Membership Status
We currently have 85 members with a total delegated SP of 12,737 SP, we leased 2,250 SP and 3,500 SP from a free sponsor. Our members SP is getting bigger than the leased SP, this is very good and we hope it skyrockets soon. You can check out all the details on the table below. Please remember that the early bird gift starts counting from the day of launch of this community.
Key: L - Level, SP - Steem Power, VW - Voting Weight
Members:
The community is grateful for your membership – There Is Power In Unity
Membership
Membership
To join just delegate SP to
Membership Delegation Levels
Level 1: 10 - 49 SP delegation - 4% voting weight
Level 2: 50 - 99 SP delegation - 8% voting weight
Level 3: 100 - 249 SP delegation - 16% voting weight
Level 4: 250 - 499 SP delegation - 24% voting weight
Level 5: 500 - 999 SP delegation - 36% voting weight
Level 6: 1,000 – 2,499 SP delegation - 48% voting weight
Level 7: 2,500 – 4,999 SP delegation - 60% voting weight
Level 8: 5,000 – 7,499 SP delegation - 72% voting weight
Level 9: 7,500 and above gets you 80% voting weight
All membership delegation levels will receive one upvote daily (every 24 hours) this is to curtail abuse of the system. You can always increase, decrease or undelegate to
How To Delegate
Goto https://steembottracker.com/bottracker.html,
• Click on "Tools" and then "Delegation Manager".
• Enter your username without "@" symbol as Delegator name.
• Click on "Load" button.
• Write "upvotebuilders" as Delegatee name.
• Enter amount as Steem Power.
• Click on "Delegate!" button.
• Steemconnect page will open and now you should click on "Continue" button to approve delegation.
You can also undelegate using this method by changing the delegation value to 0. Thank you.
In Conclusion
We appreciate all members that have joined and will continue to work so that you receive the best rewards for your commitment to the community. We need more members to grow our SP so continue to spread the word by resteeming our post. We suggest you put