I got the same problem again: My account is rarely upvoting other members from the pool. Between the last two upvotes are 7 hours. Basically I'm sitting most of the time at 100% VP.
For that rule regarding minnowbooster day. Are we able to see how much SP we still need to power up to be eligible for that day?
Powering up 0.5 SP per week but never receiving that day could be frustrating, so I would save some steem, then power up, just to be able to be eligble at least sometimes for that day.
Also, what is with those accounts with less than 15 SP? Everytime a red fish is powering up their delegation is reduced from steemit. They are staying at effective 15 SP.
That would mean that a freshly made account cannot receive minnowbooster day because it is staying at effective 15 SP until it powered up 14.9 SP. That sounds kinda frustrating.
see my reply above.
I know it seems to take forever to pay back the 15 sp loan but cash wise it's not much investment to buy your way to 25SP. If you can invest a few $'s a week the 25SP will come quickly. If your not happy with steem then just power down and cash out and really you've lost nothing.
Hope that give you other options to think about
I'm now above the 15 sp loan (That's a nice way to put it, I will remember that one.^^) It took me 134 days without putting in a single dollar.
Also to pay for 24.9 Steem it would cost 72.98 USD right now (without fees from banks and exchanges and bad exchange rates) and will link an account with your person. Unless someone is buying it anonymous with cash. I would rather not do that, just to keep my account separated for the time right now, until I can see where this is heading.
Also I don't see the direct benefit from it. To lease 14.9 SP from minnowbooster costs roughly 0.1 Steem per week. It's practically free money.
I'm just asking where is the motivation for the red fish sitting with that loan? That minnowbooster day is very benefical to them, but shadowbot cannot register a power up from 1 SP to 2 SP with monitoring the effective SP which will stay at 15 SP.
I know that there is abuse in the system and you want to counter it. To sort the wheat from the chaff is a challenge and I think it's necessary to do it.
But how about updating the blacklist, which shadowbot has? I think @steemcleaners will share their blacklist, so shadowbot could deny upvotes on their accounts until they appealed to get removed from it, while still using those accounts to upvote the pool.
I just want to see a fresh new Steemian joining shadowbot and receiving minnowbooster day once in a while for reaching 1 SP, 2P and so on.
So I'm not arguing for the benefit of myself, I'm now between the 15 SP and 25 SP and I think I can deliver that 1 SP per week. I should be fine though.
Also: Where comes the impression from that I'm unhappy with Steemit? That's definitely not the case, especially with a @steembasicincome investement. 😂