Friends of Gondor - Weekly Update 20: Dipped To 7500 SP, But Weathered A Mini-Storm

Weekly Update 20

Dipped To 7500 SP, But Weathered A Mini-Storm

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Week 20 was a tough week, as we dropped back to the 7500 SP (from above 8000 SP) primarily due to the normal weekly expirations from 13 weeks ago (mini-storm of expirations coming due), along with an early termination from one of our previous Minnow Booster leases! So for the week, we dropped a bit but were helped by a wonderful delegation from @crimsonclad who generously "freely" delegated 150 SP (she asked for nothing in return!). Thank you very much @crimsonclad, your awesome delegation really helped us through a tough week!
On the upvote of our post this week, we did get some quality upvotes, led by @fulltimegeek and his now disclosed merry band of robots and also a big upvote from fellow SOG member @drakos. The upvotes on the weekly post from everyone really helps us invest in SP, particularly like this week that was a slow week on the donation front. They are very helpful indeed!
We are almost finished on renewing our upcoming lease (due today) with @em3, as we only have 7 steem left to pay off and that will be 612 SP for another 9 weeks! We have a little over 2 Steem already and with the post payout tonight we should be close! Steem dropped a little during the week (back to the $1.30 lows) and our vote values dipped with them to $0.17 per post per steward (-$0.04).
During the week we received only 1 donation, as this was our slowest area again this week. The donation was from repeat non-SOG member @bashadow who has remained consistent throughout all 20 weeks and been there regularly when he has had available funds. Thank you very much @bashadow, it is always uplifting to see you and your goodness that you spread!

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Don't forget who we are helping, this is the full list of SOG members supporting FTG: @fulltimegeek @abh12345 @allseeingewe @buddy67 @c0ff33a @carlgnash @cbanks @cecicastor @cheneats @coolguy123 @cranium @crimsonclad @dakini5d @davedickeyyall @defango @drakos @einarkuusk @fabiyamada @flauwy @frankbacon @geekpowered @goldendawne @greenrun @hendrix22 @hitmeasap @howtostartablog @inquiringtimes @kryptokayden @kubbyelizabeth @leighstewy @lifttheveil411 @lukebrn @luming @lyndsaybowes @marxrab @mikepm74 @old-guy-photos @openmic @orcheva @originalsimulant @quitefrankly @realtreebivvy @reko @samiwhyte @skycae @somethinfishy @spiritualmax @taskmaster4450 @theuxyeti @votovzla @wisewoof @yagoub

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Tell your friends about what we are doing for the #stewardsofgondor, we want the program to continue to grow and support the many things the SOG members are doing.
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This Weeks Payment On Posts Today (~$6 sbd)

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Tonight we will receive the 20th weekly payout since the launch of this program. The payout will be equivalent to about $6 sbd (with the new payout formula, some was in steem too), and it, along with any donations will be used to initiate new leases if the rates stay so favorable. (NOTE: This week it will go to finish securing the 612 SP lease from @em3) The goal will be to add more new 13 week leases to replace the expiring 13 week leases each week that come due!
We have successfully built up and stabilized our account, and now we should provide a steady and growing upvote if we continue to get your support. The goal is to give the SOG members a real benefit and with your continued efforts to support us, we will continue to build the SP and curation trail.

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Friends That Have Generously Donated SBD (newest donations first)

Total 149.175 sbd and 26.586 STEEM

New Donations This Week

@bashadow donated 1.0 sbd (repeat donor)

@enrique89 donated 0.5 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@preparedwombat donated 1.0 sbd (repeat SOG donor)

@abh12345 donated 1.5 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@howtostartablog donated 3.0 sbd (repeat SOG donor)

@bashadow donated 1.0 sbd (repeat donor)

@abh12345 donated 1.5 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@themarkymark donated 20.0 sbd (repeat donor)

@preparedwombat donated 2.0 sbd (repeat donor)

@davedickeyyall donated 1.0 sbd (new SOG donor)

@abh12345 donated 1.0 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@bashadow donated 1.0 STEEM (repeat donor)

@profanereviews donated 1.0 sbd (repeat donor)

@abh12345 donated 1.0 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@preparedwombat donated 1.0 STEEM (repeat donor)

@four20 donated 1.0 sbd (repeat small donor)

@afifa donated 1.0 sbd (new donor)

@abh12345 donated 1.5 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@orcheva donated 2.086 STEEM (new SOG donor)

@enrique89 donated 0.5 sbd (repeat donor)

@four20 donated 1.0 sbd (repeat donor)

@lynncoyle1 donated 2.0 sbd (repeat donor)

@marxrab donated 5.0 sbd (new SOG donor)

@bashadow donated 2.0 sbd (repeat donor)

@abh12345 donated 1.0 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@enrique89 donated 0.5 sbd (new donor)

@abh12345 donated 0.50 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@cranium donated 2 sbd (repeat SOG donor)

@four20 donated 1 sbd (repeat supersmall, big heart donor)

@abh12345 donated 1.0 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@profanereviews donated 1 sbd (repeat donor)

@abh12345 donated 0.50 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@preparedwombat donated 1 sbd (NEW donor)

@howtostartablog donated 5 sbd (repeat SOG donor)

@reko donated 1.0 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@cranium donated 2 sbd (repeat SOG donor)

@bashadow donated 1 sbd (repeat donor)

@abh12345 donated 1.0 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@whatsup donated 3 sbd (new SOG donor)

@hitmeasap donated 2 sbd (new SOG donor)

@reko donated 1 STEEM (new SOG donor)

@cranium donated 3 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@howtostartablog donated 3 sbd (repeat SOG donor)

@abh12345 donated 1.0 STEEM (repeat SOG donor)

@spiritualmax donated 1.50 sbd (repeat SOG donor)

@paulag donated 3.0 sbd (NEW donor)

@discordia donated 8.30 sbd (NEW donor)

@abh12345 donated 1.0 STEEM (repeat donor)

@smylie2005 donated 1.50 sbd (repeat newbie donor)

@simplymike donated 1.0 sbd (repeat newbie donor)

@lynncoyle1 donated 1.50 sbd (repeat newbie donor)

@bashadow donated 2.0 sbd (repeat newbie donor)

@abh12345 donated 1.5 STEEM (repeat donor)

@gracefavour donated 0.30 sbd (repeat newbie donor)

@cranium donated 5.0 sbd

@lynncoyle1 donated 1.5 sbd (repeat donor)

@abh12345 donated 1.0 STEEM (repeat donor)

@smylie2005 donated 0.50 sbd (repeat donor)

@amariespeaks donated 5.0 sbd (repeat donor)

@lynncoyle1 donated 1.0 sbd (repeat donor)

@howtostartablog donated 4.0 sbd

@abh12345 donated 2.0 STEEM

@theuxyeti donated 2.0 sbd (helping out his fellow SOG members!)

@profanereviews donated 1.0 sbd (SP total is 4 SP... yes that's right 4 SP)

@beeyou donated 1.075 sbd (her SP total is 41 SP)

@gracefavour donated 1.0 sbd (her SP total is 1 SP... yes that's right 1 SP)

@abh12345 donated 2.0 sbd (@lynncoyle1 @davemccoy donated in his name)

@simplymike donated 8.0 sbd (plus her 100 SP delegation)

@bashadow donated 1.0 sbd

@beeyou donated 1.0 sbd (her SP total is 40SP)

@smylie2005 donated 2.0 sbd (her SP total 19 SP)

@spiritualmax donated 2.5 sbd

@ricia donated 5 sbd

@lynncoyle1 donated 1 sbd

@mikepm74 donated 15 sbd

@abh12345 donated 1.5 sbd

@davemccoy donated 5 sbd

Thank you all for your generous support!

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As mentioned earlier these new donations and earnings of sbd from posts will be reinvested to grow the SP so that the SOG members get a bigger hit to their upvote. We have now started lengthening the leases from 13 to 20 weeks depending on market opportunities.

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What you can do if you want to support this project to help @fulltimegeek and his #stewardsofgondor

#1 You can follow what we are doing and tell your followers and friends through various methods
#2 You can upvote our posts to increase the amount of earnings we have to lease more SP
#3 You can follow our curation trail (84th place already) on steemauto and have your upvote show moral support (even 2 or 3% is something that matters because it all adds up)
#4 You can donate directly like the wonderful people above
#5 You can delegate any of your own SP for any period of time that suits you while this Quest is ongoing
#6 Last but not least, you can thank the individual "friends" that are supporting this effort directly. Sometimes just a stop by and a small note saying you appreciate their help will make a big difference to a donor's day!

If you can't do any of the other 5 and you support what we are doing, then #6 is a very very effective way to help us. It encourage them to spread the word and rewards their efforts with "respect"

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I should be able to send some delegated SP your way on Sunday.

Thank you for your commitment and continued support! Aragorn is pleased!

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Awesome @fulltimegeek! That is very very cool! And of course we are all happy when Aragorn is pleased :P ... You are certainly welcome too and thank you for everything you do for all of us (Stewards and non-Stewards alike!). Have an awesome rest of your week!

Maybe teach me how to delegate?

Here is the RAW url I use to delegate:

https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=fulltimegeek&delegatee=fulltimeangel&vesting_shares=111%20SP

  • Replace fulltimegeek with davedickyyall
  • Replace fulltimeangel with delegatee's name
  • Replace 111 with how much SP you're delegating

You will need your master password or active key to make the transaction happen.

Thanks ✌👍👍

Thanks for the assist here FTG!

Hi @davedickeyyall! I`m here to help :) If you want to delegate, please make a comment (for example replay to this one) like this:
I want to delegate X sp to @user
Where X is the amount of SP and @user is the steem user you want to delegate to. For example:
I want to delegate 100 sp to @fulltimegeek
@tipU will answer with a delegation link. Hope this helps!:)

I want to delegate 100 SP to @friendsofgondor

Hi @davedickeyyall! Special squad of highly trained hamsters prepared this delegation link for you:
steemconnect 100.0 SP delegation to @friendsofgondor.

Very good.... You figured out how to do it! Thank you very much, that is awesome @davedickeyyall! :)

Let's get that SP back up where it belongs! Time for me to re-up my contribution to this bad boy. Sending another 15 SBD over to you now!

Thanks for all that you do!!

Thank you very much @mikepm74... You were the very first "large" donor we had... I will always remember you stepping up and leading the way on that one! Many have followed since and you were a big part of getting it going in the beginning! Its awesome to see you step up again! Have a wonderful day and week ahead!

I just wanted to take the time to thank all SOG members who have taken the time to up vote my content.
@frankbacon you have been the biggest supporter and one of the very few who look at my posts I want you to know how much I truly appreciate you.
@davedickeyyall thank you for your most recent up votes, it's people like you and Frank and @cheneats who keep me from being totally discouraged.
@defango, @abh12345 and @fulltimegeek each up vote one of my posts, thank you. @allseeingewe thank you for up voting my comments on your posts. And a shout out to @davemccoy for your help when I needed it.
I recently won the STACH poetry contest episode 1 - I got one up vote on my posting of that poem yet, the judges found my poem the best of the many entries...This is what totally confuses me about this platform....... My support small as it may be to FOG ($3) & to FTG ($3) is major to me as I only make fractions of a pennies per payout.
Thank you to the members who have recognized my contributions and I will donate again, once I have built up my account up.

Awesome comment here @four20 and thank you for recognizing the people you did and its awesome to see the SOG members supporting you :) ... And thanks for the shout out too, that was nice! You will always be a part of this because its people like us that help keep the SOG message going and spreading! Thanks again and good to see you are growing nicely too :)

I wanted to give your message a little lift to get it higher so people could read it! Plus thanks again for the shout out :)

thanks @davemccoy you're the best!

@four20 thank you for that... that is a very nice compliment :)

👍👍👍👍👍 please see and upvote my last post we can support each other.thanks

That is nice that you upvoted this acct @timewarp... thank you. Unfortunately this account can only upvote Stewards of Gondor members that were decided from @fulltimegeek. We don't even vote our own account, all the votes are only to the Stewards! :)

I am happy to see Steem popping to north of 1.40!!! Keep fighting the good fight!

Yes, it even had some more legs today and jumped north of $1.60... It is something that will definitely help with our vote values! :)

Thank you for your continued support. Take my little donation this week.

You're welcome @cranium and thank you for your donation. There is never anything such as a little donation. It is very much appreciated and will go towards a new order I secured today which will go into effect next week for another 660 SP! Thanks and have a wonderful week!

I'd like to delegate some SP to y'all but need help figuring out how.

Again, thanks! It was received and is definitely appreciated! Good job on figuring it out too :)

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