We are happy to announce to our users that we are about to make some huge upgrades as the new platform is being brought online! One of these big updates is changing the requirements to be a Shadow Caster.
New Rules Effective June 1, 2018
All members under 5 SP will not receive any up votes at all. Our system resources are being drained by accounts that literally have 0.1 SP and add less than 0.00001 SP reward while costing our system time and resources and receiving far more than that in up votes from the rest of the pool! This is unfair and if you do not have over 5 SP by June 1st you will cease to get up votes from any other member.
All members between 5 SP and 25 SP will be limited to 1 post per week to be up voted on by the pool. This is not meant to be a punishment for minnows, but rather an incentive for them to work hard and reinvest in the beginning to get to at least 25 SP.. We consider a minnow over 25, anything less is well we will let you decide the word to use but basically a single cell..
All members under 25 SP with a Shadow Rank over 25 will be reduced to 25 Shadow Rank. You may power up now until June 1st to avoid a Shadow Rank reduction if you are under 25 SP.
All members under 25 SP will no longer be eligible for minnow booster day unless they have powered up at least 1 SP the prior week. This is to ensure that all members are earning and reinvesting into their accounts and will help weed out abusers who wish to get up votes from the pool without contributing anything back to the pool!
To clarify when we say SP, we mean your EFFECTIVE SP, not how much you have then delegate out 90% of.. How we look at your EFFECTIVE SP is:
Effective SP = (Powered Up Steem + Steem Power Delegated to you) - Steem Power you delegate out