In a selfless act of monumental proportions, @fulltimegeek's Steem Power is currently delegated to around 50 users to help curate and support communities across Steemit.

If you have received an up-vote from myself, or anyone else in the following list over the past month or so, then you have @fulltimegeek to thank for the much larger vote you have been gifted.

If you wish to know 'why?' someone would loan out this Steem Power, you can find out here.

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Loaning out your Steem Power to Bid-bots?

In last weeks' blog, I had a conversation with @coolguy123 regarding loaning out his stake to a Bid-bot. @coolguy123 wished to confirm if this was a viable option for him, and following the discussion he decided to withdraw his loan back to his account in order to provide more up-votes to worthy content.

The result of this (I think) was an additional delegation to the both of us from @fulltimegeek. As often is the case, actions speak louder than words. Thank you @fulltimegeek!

Loaning out your Steem Power to other users/communities?

If you are doing this then you are a mini @fulltimegeek and winning!

Many stewards are now delegating Steem Power to worthy minnows and giving them additional power, which they can in turn use to support their communities. Well done everyone who is paying it forward in this manner!

Should we have a list of Stewards delegating SP to other users? If so, I may need your help each week to keep it updated.

To the numbers we go!

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Steward Statistics

Columns:

Name: Steem Username
Posts: Number of Top level posts in the past 7 days
Comments: Number of comments made in the past 7 days
Com_len: Total character length of all comments (excluding posts)
Wit_v: Number of Witnesses voted for
Votes: Total number of votes made in the past 7 days
Unique_v: Total number of unique authors who received a vote in the past 7 days
Down_v: Number of down-votes made in the past 7 days
Self_v: Number of self-votes made in the past 7 days
Self_v_%: Percentage of Steem Power used on self-votes in the past 7 days

(@crimsonclad witness proxy @followbtcnews)
Data extracted from @arcange's SteemSQL DB at 7:00 pm (UTC+4!) 25th January 2018.

@arcange's SteemSQL is now a paid service and so the support of these blogs (which has been the case since the beginning) is very much appreciated. Thank you!

Weekly totals

Totals	This week	Last week	2 weeks ago	3 weeks ago	4 weeks ago
Posts	328	383	372	423	490
Comments	7497	7562	7189	7733	7042
Up-votes	24742	23238	22582	23517	22509
Unique votes	10841	10264	10433	11025	9711
Self-votes	255	293	347	392	532
Down-votes	221	132	129	135	124

Stats and Star Stewards

This week, the number of Posts and Comments are up, and the number of Self-votes are down - nice!

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Well done to @cranium who has made over 1100 comments this past week - top interacting!

@taskmaster4450 leads the way yet again with an enormous amount of Comment text totaling 146599 characters - hail keyboards!

@hitmeasap, @cecicastor, @abh12345, @coolguy123, @lyndsaybowes, @crimsonclad, and @teamhumble have all handed out over 1000 votes this past week - up-vote legends!

@howtostartablog and @teamhumble - Master stewards of goodwill to all with over 1000 unique Steemians reached with votes this past week - sharing the love!

Summary

Stewards, how do you think you've done this week?

This past week I was lucky enough to receive a further delegation from @fulltimegeek (Thank you!!) and so I made a further effort to spread my vote and managed to appear in the Star Stewards list.

I think there is a balance in this 'Votes category' between going to thin and too thick with the vote weight. 1000 Votes, VP above 90%, and the SP I hold allowed me to give a minimum of 10 cents with every vote. Again, there is no right amount to cast, and I think it is dependent on the SP you have to some extent.

If you think there would be a place for other data to be added please let me know in the comments and i'll see what I can do.

Thank you @fulltimegeek!

On checking the delgations each week, I am noting FTG becoming more active in adjusting the the delegation amounts. This is great to see and is encouragement to continue try to do our best for the Steemit community.

As usual, more thanks than words can provide to the the lord of the steems, the @fulltimegeek.

Thank you so much!

Until next time, steem on Stewards!

Asher @abh12345