Hey @simplymike,
I'm happy to hear you are going to adopt a minnow! When I did it, my goal was to find a minnow that I thought was interesting, made great content and was fun. The thought was to give her/him visibility and hope her content spoke for it's self.
https://steemit.com/codependent/@whatsup/my-co-dependent-adopt-a-minnow-plan
^ That was the first time I did it formally, but since then I still do it quietly. The idea is to give them visibility without creating dependence (although I joked about it)
@brandyb was a great minnow, her graphic art and promotion materials were better than my own.
I'm still glad I did it and @brandyb and I had a lot of fun with it.
I quit doing it publically because in order to give visibility I had to promote the posts. Many saw this as using the minnow to promote myself. (Even though they seemed to miss I promoted many of her posts as well.)
It was a fun project and I think we both got some good things out of it. I didn't grow the project because it got kind of awkward with it being a win/win situation. Another group wanted to "Take it Over", so I just stepped back and it faded away.
Check out the adoptaminnow tag for most of the posts in that category. Feel free to hit me up on Discord.
Good luck with your future Minnow.
Thanks for the explanation. I did some further thinking and I think I'm going to stick to what I am doing now: give a small delegation to a couple of minnows, and offer them some informal support. This way I can help multiple people at a time.
Still, I'm not going to let go of the idea of an adoption yet - it sounds like fun :0)
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