Hello @theaustrianguy!
First of all, thanks for the effort you put into the welcoming service! 4 days ago you found my introduction post and helped me boost my start here at steemit. It made me instantly beliveve in Steemit as a wonderful community. Where else would you get so many welcoming messages, and even get paid for making an introduction? I think these posts will boost the number of newcomers to steemit. Just think about the effect when I tell my friends that I made $50 for my introduction post. I should show you a photo!
I am waiting to get my delegated steem back, when I do I will make an delegatin to @welcoming!
1. How many posts should I resteem per day? 10? 15? 20?
I have many times been thinking about unfollowing @welcoming as it overflows my homepage. I would say at maximum 7-10, but not more than three at once, as have been said earlier.
One idea that comes to my mind is to resteem the 7-10 best introductions, and then make a simple post with links to the rest of the posts. (like: These new users is also worth checking out: Abraham link. Benjamin link. Charlie link.) This will give you the opportunity to share more than 10 posts, and give us the opportunity to still follow @welcoming, and upvote new steemers as we do not have to let the frustration over all the new posts from @welcoming make us unfollow @welcoming. This sounds like the top five which also is posted, but it is not. It would be "The rest of the posts that didnt get resteemed :)
2. Should I also vote on introductions I don't resteem?
I think you also should vote for those you don't resteem, but only the posts you think are "real". (that might be self-evident...) You could do as the idea mention in question 1, and the also upvote those you put in the daily list. If you do not want to make such a list that is understandable, but I think upvotes would be nice either way.
Thank you for the long and well thought answer :)
I am glad you are one of those I could support and make believe that this is real - I am even more glad to see you are thinking about delegating some power to @welcoming and therefore can help others to receive such a warm welcome as you did!
Of what has been posted so far, I will reduce the number of resteems to max 10 and max 3 per hour or so. Of course I am not a robot, so numbers will be fluctuating. I hope to hit it about right so that nobody feels annoyed by this service!
And I also started upvoting some other good intros with 20% each.
I am not yet sure about making daily post though, will need some more thoughts on that!
Anyways, thx again for the great answer and the though of delegating to @welcoming!
Cool! I am just happy I could help :) I got to wait for my other delegation to get back after the cool down...
Just one more thought: If you start posting with welcoming it would be more easy for people to start auto-voting on welcoming, and therefore give @welcoming more power to vote for new-comers. I love the ability to auto-vote, as that keep my steem power so I may use it for my own as well :)
The idea with posting via @welcoming instead of @theaustrianguy is a great idea for various reasons, I will definitely implement that.
I will post about the changes in about 2 hours!
Greets