Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. Steem Basic Income is delivered through providing regular upvotes to member content.
We are up to six pools, so your upvotes could come from 
There has been a spike in inactivity in the last few weeks. Managing voting power around inactive members is an ongoing challenge. The portion of inactive members has grown to 30%. Some of these actively comment, but not post, so they will start receiving upvotes when we finish our automation project.
We try to redistribute the excess voting power that should go to the inactive members to active members, so that it is not wasted. With so many inactive members, we have only been able to upvote 409 of the members in pool 1! We also see 
img source: http://www.steemreports.com/outgoing-votes-info/?account=steembasicincome&days=7
Last week we had a 2.9% self-vote, which means most of our voting power has been going to our members. We do have our own updates on auto-vote, so this will move back up toward 10% as we re-establish consistency in our updates schedule.
Pool 2 upvotes come from
img source: http://www.steemreports.com/outgoing-votes-info/?account=sbi2&days=7
We have made great progress in shifting inactives out of pool 2, and only 30% of the members in pool 2 are still inactive. With better management of our voting power, we have also reduced the need to self-vote on comments, and pool 2 has only 3.3% of voting weight going to
Pool 3 upvotes come from
img source: http://www.steemreports.com/outgoing-votes-info/?account=sbi3&days=7
Many of the inactives from pool 2 have been shifted into pool 3, leaving it with a nearly 40% inactivity rate. We will shift more inactives into pool 4 in the coming week to start balancing pool 3 down toward 30% like pools 1 and 2. The self-vote percentage in pool 3 has been decreased to 3% and we see a new name appear in the chart. 
Pool 4 upvotes come from
img source: http://www.steemreports.com/outgoing-votes-info/?account=sbi4&days=7
Pool 4 only recently filled to 500, so calculating inactives the same weight makes it look like 40%. According to my tracking, it's actually only 33%. As we will be moving inactives down into pool 4 (and it will take longer to fully rebalance pool 4 back to 33%, I would expect the inactive rate in pool 4 to climb toward 40% this week before falling again. Time will tell!
Pool 5 upvotes come from
img source: http://www.steemreports.com/outgoing-votes-info/?account=sbi5&days=7
We really start to see 
Pool 6 upvotes come from
img source: http://www.steemreports.com/outgoing-votes-info/?account=sbi6&days=7
We launched pool 6 this month to give a place for members that post so frequently that even pool 5 would have them paused. There are a couple bigger members, but since it mostly has members with few shares and high posting frequency, the distribution chart is more even.
Once full automation is in place, we will no longer be dependent on 
That will also mean that we won't have to open new pools until the bottom pool starts actually getting full! That's going to be a positive development as well. We will continue to provide more information about the program changes as we get close to full automation.
Last time I posted these charts, we had high self-voting percentages. I acknowledged that they would be a concern to some members, and asked for a little time to deal with the situation appropriately. We made some adjustments to the voting weight distribution and continued to rebalance inactive members across pools.
I appreciate the confidence placed in me by most of our members, as manually rebalancing voting weights is extremely time intensive. Full automation will resolve most of these issues, and it looms on the horizon! I think most of you will agree that it was worth being patient, since we have removed the need for extra self-votes on comments and brought the self-vote percentage for each pool below our maximum self-vote target of 10%.
If you want to get involved, or to increase the share of basic income that you receive, enrollment is pretty straightforward:
Just send 1 STEEM to
If you're unclear, please check out our full transaction memo guidelines and then let us know if you have any questions.
https://steemit.com/basicincome/@steembasicincome/steem-basic-income-new-transaction-memo-guidelines
The official currency for enrollment is STEEM. We accept SBD at our discretion (usually when they're very close, or when SBD is stronger) but you do not receive extra value or any partial refund for paying in SBD instead of STEEM. If we choose to accept an SBD enrollment, we accept the entire amount. If we choose to reject it, we refund the entire amount and request you to send STEEM instead.
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