The Mesopotamians System Status, Week 17

This is a weekly update of the status of @themesopotamians system.

I'm home and will start posting again slowly here. While my vacation was nice, I can't say I came home much less fatigued than when I left, so things may not spin up super-fast. Post-hf20 I'm still thinking a lot about how to accomplish the core goals of the system while using less of my time and energy.

On the bright side the voting bots worked perfectly while I was gone, and even with severely curtailed posting the account growth has done well and makes me feel good about long-term sustainability in terms of voting power. My key sustainability concern at this point has shifted to being able to find enough new users, as the governance decisions seem to be moving Steem away from attracting the sorts of people that The Mesopotamians wants to support.

But we'll see how things shake out.

ACCOUNT	LEVEL	STATUS	VOTING
@doctorworm	0-500 SP		Supporting 21 users
@particleman	0-500 SP		Supporting 23 users
@m-sargon	500-1100 SP		Supporting 12 users
@m-hammurabi	1100-1800 SP		Supporting 11 users
@m-ashurbanipal	1800-2700 SP		Following @particleman
@m-gilgamesh	2700-3800 SP		Following @doctorworm
@themesopotamians	3800-5000 SP		Voting all users

ACCOUNT	NATIVE SP	DELEGATED SP	SOURCE
@doctorworm	113.376	1511.598	@tcpolymath
@particleman	83.596	1524.670	Leased
@m-sargon	100.452	2012.120	@tcpolymath
@m-hammurabi	16.194	2504.265	@tcpolymath
@m-ashurbanipal	6.811
@m-gilgamesh	6.832
@themesopotamians	129.607	50.239	@davemccoy
-	-	-	-
System	457.228	7602.891

The Mesopotamians is a project to use ongoing support and gamification to encourage account growth and build a class of community-minded minnows and eventually dolphins. This project is run by @tcpolymath.

The Mesopotamians uses a six-level system of automated votes to encourage specific users to invest in their accounts and make community contributions. As a user progresses up the levels the value of vote they receive increases. Before advancing to each new level a user will be asked to envision, develop, and implement a new project with community benefit.

The Mesopotamians is an outgoing support initiative, not a vote-trading scheme. Support from our members is appreciated but not in any way required.

Users are chosen for the program by @tcpolymath in a completely-unfair and usually-opaque selection process based on what he thinks is important for the community and who he thinks would be a good dolphin someday. He's giving his own money away here so he's ok with that, but it's best to be upfront about it.