I love it - Steemit is growing, people are posting and it is sustainable growth this time which is good news for investors and media to deal with rational numbers to calculate with. It has almost been a YEAR since the first steem-block was mined and boys and girls has it been a ride :)

It all started as a big sandbox

Four months ago, I made a milestone post welcoming user number 100,000 to Steemit. I did the same when we reached 50,000 Users but then we realized that a lot of these accounts are mining and bot-accounts just representing a 10th or less of the real user base.

So Steemit went through some great serious changes and now the numbers make more sense!

A few changes was introduced to Steemit after that, one of them the requirement of (1) getting an SMS verification embedded to get rid of name-squatters, and (2) Improving the SMS verification to disallow throw-away numbers and verifying over more then one single block which was a glitch that allowed a user to register 7-10 accounts with one SMS and take the free steempower.

Steemit is growing - with real users this time!

A lot of steem-leaks like this has been patched/fixed/repaired/replaced and the result gives us a much more sober calculation of user growth. Reports from blackhats, whitehats and mughats we have learned that it is no longer easy to get a free account on steemit anymore, which makes me very happy when I study the growth in user accounts being created and new users coming to this, eSteem, Busy or other SteemPowered platforms to play - I´m loving it! ---

So how is My "Vote For Everybody Experiment" going?

When I started this experiment voluntarily with my own account which I have invested with my own money the risk I was facing was to lose curation-rewards. That did not happen at all. In fact, I discovered the key to unlocking the secret door to maximum curation-rewards for myself while at the same time keeping most of the vote-power to manually curation - Like having the cake and eat it too.

Generosity - The Hidden Easter-Egg in Steemit!

I discovered in this experiment that STEEM has been coded in such a way that you have to be generous towards the masses while the act of selfishness has been erased as a money-making-factor to a certain degree.

Now I need more digits on the vote-sliders to keep up with the user growth!

If I vote for everyone with 1% my voting power stays at 100% all the time. If however, I vote for everyone with 2% my voting power goes down. So what I need is the ability to give something like a 1.50% upvote, I need 2-3 more digits after the decimal divider to avoid recharge breaks. ( @dan, @dantheman, @ned, @sneak )

How I avoid auto-voting for Plagiarism, Scam, Spam and hate-speeches

@SteemCleaners in action working manually On Steemit we have some good curation-guilds and individuals who voluntarily providing services for the larger community. For example: if a post has been flagged by @steemcleaners, @blacklist, @cheetah my bot is set to skip voting for those posts, allowing me to examine those skipped accounts manually.

@Cheetah in Action Doing quick arrests and shooting down accounts It is important to take the curation-roll as serious as possible because I do not want to reward thieves and parasites with my upvotes, and neither want the rest of the community so voluntarism works when it comes to basic security. These flag-bots provide our upvote-bots with red and green lights in other words, and you can be part of those projects by contact or by invitation.

@Blacklist in Action Keeps a list of repeat offenders and give them a mini-flag when they post

The Bot I use is FREE and OPEN SOURCE - You can use it too!

On Github you can download the latest version of Steemit-Autovoter So you need to install Python 3.xx since it is a Python-Script. You also need to install #piston by @xeroc after you have installed Python, since well - it is Python-based and this is how you do it:

Installation from shell/terminal

`git clone https://github.com/xeroc/piston/releases/tag/0.3.4` `cd piston` `python3 setup.py install --user` Note:The upvote-bot is written for this version of Piston, when there is a Piston 4 compatible version with the upvote-script ready I will post or resteem that information. Alright - now that Python3 and Piston has been installed successfully on your computer - it is time to run the bot:

Edit the files in a REAL text-editor for coders, and then: Go to your shell and type: `python3 votebot_everyone.py` and watch the magic happen!

@fyrstikken`s boat in action :) ---

My Steemit-Witness is @fyrst-witness and you can vote for him here! or set @fyrstikken to be your proxy