Photo: Spaghettification as I enter the event horizon of a black hole. Or maybe it's just the dryer. As time slows approaching the speed of light, we may never know if it was laundry or a singularity.

One Month Ago,

I wrote a post asking for nominations for five active members of the Steem community who would benefit from a @dustsweeper account to help them grow organically. Five sponsorships were available, as I had reserved 5 STEEM out of my recent push toward Minnow status.

The rules were:

• must be active / have recent posts and comments
• not already using dustsweeper

If necessary (if there were more than 5 nominations, I would give preference to smaller accounts, those who interact frequently and sincerely on Steem, and those whose content I liked. I received 7 nominations.

I upvoted recent posts and comments from each, with the intention of awarding the dustsweeper accounts in time for those upvotes to count! I failed in that intention, as my regular Steem activity was consumed by a new obsession (as discussed a few days ago in Down the Rabbit-Hole.)

Today, it's time for me to make good on those sponsorships, and I'm sorry for keeping you waiting.

In reviewing the nominations, I am pleased to report that all continue to post and interact regularly. Good nominations, @mayb, @rpgbuilders, and @fitinfun, thanks!

It appears that @chekohler already has dustsweeper, and @holoz0r seems to be getting comment upvotes of a similar nature from @frogcake - that one is new to me, but as long as engaged Steemians aren't losing the rewards they get from sincere interaction I am happy! I hope they will understand me ruling them out on this criterion.

That leaves five active, engaged up and coming Steemians for me to sponsor!
@myjob, @teresah, @wakeupkitty, @luueetang, and @mayb, please check your wallet transfers for confirmation of your Dustsweeper accounts. Dustsweeper will salvage the small upvotes you receive from the likes of me and other non-dolphins, by adding its own upvote to any upvoted comment that hasn't broken the 2¢ threshold after 5 days. It will continue until it runs out or you refill it, as explained in the Dustsweeper FAQ.

Enjoy growing your accounts!

P.S. @rpgbuilders, I think you should have nominated yourself! Since you didn't, I now nominate you. It will take me a few days as I have to convert some SBDs, but a Dustsweeper account is coming to you, too.

P.P.S. I am not affiliated with @dustsweeper, but I do benefit from promoting its use, and you should, too. I am a small account and I like to interact with others like me. When I have dustsweeper, I salvage both their upvotes to me and any curation reward paid to them. When they have dustsweeper, I know that my upvotes to them will count, not disappear in 6 day's time. When I collect daily rewards of $0.01 to $0.10 on curation alone, I am motivated to do more on Steem (it's far more than my tiny savings gets at the bank!)