I believe the #tenkminnows project is exactly on the right track @steevc.

Sure, one could make the case that we should be "making dolphins," but that misses an important point: If you're already close to dolphinhood, chances are you already have the posting and contribution habits to get there on your own.

When the focus is on Redfish — let's say people with 200SP and up who've at least committed to giving Steem a serious go — it's not just about getting someone across the 500SP finish line, it's about teaching the community interaction and engagement skills that will make them continued active members.

Including, for example, encouragement to become part of Asher's leagues, encouragement to join Paula's "power up leagues" and perhaps a willingness to pay forward the help they were offered by giving an occasional 50SP delegation to a struggling newcomer trying to deal with the RC issue.

Oh... and people will always end up giving you an upvote... because you're doing something postive for the community... it's reciprocity; it's a form of paying it forward, I doubt you can "retrain" people from that... so if I may; when you make these "community posts" why not just say that "the liquid part of the rewards from the post will be used to buy SBI units for promising redfish." That way nobody ends up feeling awkward because they either forgot to not vote, or just want to help out.

Well, I've babbled on enough! As you can probably tell, I have a very positive feeling about all this.

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