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.

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.