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RE: I will delegate 6000SP to 12 "real minnows". WHY? Because, I Feel Blessed!

in #delegation7 years ago

First of all I would like to thank you for this initiative and the opportunity @ejemai.

To be honest I don't have a resume as impressive as most of the people on this post. But I do know I use most of my upvotes(0.01 on a good day) on minnows good content(at least from my perspective) because I know very well how even that can make your day when you're just starting. I've been on steemit for 100 day now, in that time I've seen people come, get discouraged and abandon. E.g So far I only know of 5-6 Rwandese on steemit out of which only 2-3 are active(counting me too) and I think the main problem is the language barrier. Some struggle to write in english but they still do because they know they won't get noticed if they write in the mother tongue, and when post after post they don't get anything, not for lack of good content but because of grammatical errors, they give up.

I think if I could incentivize some to come back, or new ones to come join, tell them to write good content in the mother tongue, then @bmotive (haven't asked him yet but I'm sure he'd be cool with it) and I could curate them and then they write the post again in english. We would only keep rewarding those that really make an effort on improving their english. Surely they would be more motivated and more inclined to become ambassadors.

This doesn't just apply to Rwanda but many african countries where there is not enough SP distribution to really support each other. I think if this was done accross the board it could help with the retention problem that steemit is still struggling with.

And since the Rwandese community is still tiny I could also try helping out in other East African communities since I've already made some connections there. Hopefully I would also be able to bring in some Burundians since so far I've only seen one and he already quit too.

Also to be honest that extra SP would also get me more rewards, which would also help when I'm promoting the platform because so far most of my friends don't understand yet the value since I haven't withdrawn and they know I spend hours per day on steemit.

I have thrown upvotes here and there but I don't think that their worth would be enough to keep somebody who has a job or is too busy with school here.

And finally, within 2 months of being here I had made a contest to motivate where I gave out 4.7sbd(most of which I won from a few contests) and at the time it accounted for about 3/4 of my wallet. And I've also delegated to 2 projects I really believe in.

Thanks for the consideration :)

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Yeah I am not a judge but you deserve this brother. 500sp can make some change in our society.