SPUD Day, Dolphin Promotion and @chops.support Changes.

It’s SPUD day again but I’m not seeing as many SPUD posts as last time, that is ones proving that they have powered up.

Still, I always find this SPUD day a bit of fun and powered up some this morning and yesterday too. I didn't intend to power up two days on the run but something was bothering me.

Yesterday I crossed the 35,000 STEEM line which technically made me a Dolphin I. If you don’t know the THREE levels of Dolphin hierarchy then they are listed below:

Dolphin III – >5000 STEEM Power
Dolphin II – >20,000 STEEM Power
Dolphin I – >35,000 STEEM Power

This is at least by the standard that the Steem-Plus Chrome extension uses.

I had crossed the line and yet I was still seeing Dolphin II. Granted it's not as big milestone as to when someone gains Dolphin III and joins the just over 2,000 strong club but I wanted to be in the BIG Dolphin club dammit!

I guess it’s all related to Vests, it usually is. Not the ones your ageing grandfather wears but vesting shares or it could simply be Steem-Plus on a go slow and not quite figuring the changes had been made yet.

So here’s my power up for today which finally lets me see ‘Dolphin I’ next to my banner. I haven’t powered all of it up as some of it is for a project I’m working on and that will cost me some STEEM.

The latest stats reveal we now have over 2,000 STEEM Dolphins but what I would like to know if someone can provide a breakdown of how many in each category? I'm sure @abh12345 or someone else can?

The middle class is slowly growing, and I'm glad to be a part of it!

In the spirit of SPUD I will shortly be going through the @chops.support account and removing some accounts who are constantly powering down and shipping STEEM out to @bittrex, @deepcrypto8 (Binance) or other exchanges.

This account was created as a thank you to some for helping me along when I was a young wee nipper, as well as to incentivise bloggers who want to grow their accounts and become Minnows and Dolphins (though there are some exceptions).

While this may sound harsh, there are limited spaces in this auto-voting account and I would prefer to see account growth AS WELL AS good authors gaining the reward once a day for their efforts.

Sure we all will power down someday but I can’t really justify feeding these constant power-down / ship STEEM out type accounts, it simply feels wrong so don’t take I personally if you find the vote is gone.

I'm sure @steevc and the #tenkminnows project has some prospective new people who want to grow their accounts and which could benefit from a @chops.support daily vote.

Thank you to the supporters of @chops.support, you are awesome! @daan, @goblinknackers, @preparedwombat, @shanibeer and @steevc.