Hello @lemouth, thank you for your contact. Yes you are correct, we did cede two of our payment votes for causes we thought worthy, the first being to the @steemsports charity project in collaboration with the @steempowertwins to deliver canned goods to the Holland Rescue Mission on behalf of @steemsports and steemit.com, thereafter we supported the @steempower twins themselves because they have really stood up and are trying to do good in the community, besides helping to deliver food for charity, they also provide worthy authors with personalised video comments to make the authors feel valued, but they can't really monetise the videos due to comments not being popular to upvote and need sponsorship to keep doing what they are doing for the community.

You are however correct, the right protocol would have been to announce that we would be ceding our payment votes to other causes and put it in our terms and conditions.

We admit that we got so caught up in excitement of doing good that it did not occur to us to do this beforehand. We have since been discussing putting out a post to signify our intent to cede up to two of our weekly votes to help other causes and maybe even new users in the introducemyself tag with a nice Steemit/Steemvoter welcome.

We think it would be really cool if we as a community pooled our votes to make a bigger difference than we could do separately. The contributors to the Steemvoter crowdfund will be added to a special channel soon and perhaps they would like to help us seek out worthy content for the votes we cede.

Thanks for your advice regarding updating our terms and conditions.