Dear @albensilverberg

We have not yet connected on the Steem blockchain, but I have written this post as a proposition for you...........

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I notice that you are not currently active with regards to content creation and engagement, and that you have delegated approximately 45,000 Steem Power to a well known vote selling service.

A quick scan of your wallet tells me that in the past week, this delegation has earned you as follows:

Payment	Amount
11 hours ago	12.365
yesterday	11.384
2 days ago	11.881
3 days ago	11.989
4 days ago	11.792
5 days ago	9.833
6 days ago	6.855
6 days ago	13.1
7 days ago	8.48
7 days ago	12.59
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-	110.269 SBD

This is a reasonable sum, $110.10 at current SBD price, to earn on a 45000 delegation, but I would like to offer you 120 STEEM a week for the same delegation - $113.28 at the current price of STEEM.

Clearly, the difference in earnings is not much at $3 extra for you each week, but there are possibly other reasons why you would wish to delegate to a member of the Steem community, who supports other keen members of the community who are engaged and produce interesting content.

Last week, my votes reached almost 200 different accounts and a good number of these votes were cast on comments. I firmly believe that engagement and community are a key aspect of Steem right now, and feel that these aspects can be over-looked by an account wishing to attempt to grow their account buying votes.

The additional SP in my account would allow me to reach perhaps 100 more accounts each week, who will be hand-picked for their content and engagement. At my current SP, I've reached a limit to the number of people I can support, and I would love to have the opportunity to keep them, and others, engaged and active.

• I do not currently vote my own content, but with the cost of this lease may decide to vote up to 1 of my own posts each day

• It is highly possible that I may not be able to afford to hold this lease for more than 2 weeks, at which time I will let you know ASAP so you can cancel

• If I am more than 1 day late with payment, I expect the lease to be cancelled

• A smaller sum, with cost price adjustments made accordingly is fine by me: e.g. 22500 SP / 60 STEEM per week

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I understand from some of your posts last year, that you have an interest in helping the wider community prosper:

Are you more likely to upvote someone who already has $100 payout pending or the guy who is sitting at 3 views and $0.05? In my eyes, the lazy choice is to upvote the one with the high payout already. The question is, how does this help the community? source

And I'd like to think I can use your vested stake to 'help the community'. Hopefully there will be some comments made below that can support this message as a viable alternative.

Yours sincerely

Asher

@steemcommunity Witness