The Great Experiment is about to begin and the Lab Rats have been selected
The hiring is complete. A week and a day ago I promised to delegate 1000 SP for 1 month to a Redfish or Minnow on the site. The delegation is to grow the selected user's account in exchange for manual curation and positive engagement! The original post is here
Drakos contacted me fairly quickly after I made the announcement offering to match my offer!! 
and a really cute avatar...
I was pretty excited to announce we were able to reward 2 users.
(You know that guy who has to show everyone up?)
Suddenly, ^ That guy appeared and @irreverent-dan jumped in on the deal and committed to delegating 1000 sp to 2 users. I've never been happier to be shown up! Thanks very much
The interest and feedback on the post was amazing and positive! The post ended up with 274 relevant comments and suggestions! It was overwhelming on several levels, and I am sure you can imagine how difficult it was to chose. There were so many worthy, excited people ready to apply for the job!
So... Drum roll...
Here are the four future dolphins:
(yeah, it's crazy a month of delegation isn't going to make anyone a dolphin, but it will not hurt either.)
Congratulations! You all come highly recommended! The delegations will be happening quickly and the next stage of the experiment will begin! These New Hires will take on the job of voting for themselves and others and being helpful and engaging. The last day of the first round is July 21st! At that time I ask these future dolphins to provide feedback via a post or conversation on Discord about their experience!
As a community, I ask that these users be allowed to just go about their business and do what they are already doing! Engaging, helping and growing their account. (If you want to get involved, upvote their posts and help them grow their accounts. Or check out my original post for many more deserving applicants.) It is MY requirement that these LabRats vote on their own content as well. We need active, engaging users WITH Stake Power. So please don't give them a hard time for self upvoting!
It's an experiment, let's see what happens in 30 days! And go...
