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Thank you to all the communities who took the time to submit applications for @booming support. There were 36 applications in total. We have now selected 14 communities to receive @booming support. It is hoped this number can be increased in the near future. --- --- ### Booming Support Communities

The communities selected for @booming support are… ## Tier 1
**Steem4Nigeria** https://steemit.com/hive-147599/@fredquantum/booming-support-application-july-2022-steem4nigeria-community **Steem Entrepreneurs** https://steemit.com/hive-120861/@steempreneurship/steem-entrepreneurs-application-for-booming-support **Steem For Better Life** https://steemit.com/hive-153970/@heriadi/booming-support-program-application-for-steem-for-better-life-community-july-2022 **Steemit Pakistan** https://steemit.com/hive-136998/@steemit-pak/application-for-booming-support-for-the-month-of-july-august-or-steemit-pakistan **Steem SEA** https://steemit.com/hive-103393/@anroja/steem-sea-s-application-for-monthly-support-program-july-august-2022 **Steem Venezuela** https://steemit.com/hive-193637/@hive-193637/application-to-be-a-booming-community-for-the-steem-venezuela-community --- ## Tier 2
**Crypto.Kids** https://steemit.com/hive-198626/@elinav/solicitud-del-programa-de-soporte-booming-para-crypto-kids-04-07-2022 **Hot News** https://steemit.com/hive-111300/@alee75/hot-news-community-application-for-monthly-support-program-july-2022 **SteemAlive** https://steemit.com/hive-167622/@focusnow/steemalive-official-application-for-booming-support-july-2022 **Steemit Philippines** https://steemit.com/hive-169461/@steemitphcurator/steemit-philippines-community-or-booming-support-program-application-july-august-2022 **Steemit Travel** https://steemit.com/hive-163291/@hive-163291/application-for-booming-support-steemit-travel **Steemit-Turkiye** https://steemit.com/hive-179764/@steemit-turkiye/application-for-booming-support-steemit-turkiye-community **Urdu Community** https://steemit.com/hive-104522/@urdu-community/urdu-community-application-for-monthly-support-program-july-august-2022 **Venezolanos Steem** https://steemit.com/hive-108800/@marcybetancourt/solicitud-de-la-comunidad-venezolanos-steem-para-el-programa-de-apoyo-a-las-comunidades-para-el-mes-de-agosto-2022 --- **Tier 1 communities will receive 8 votes per day from the @booming accounts.** **Tier 2 communities will receive 4 votes per day from the @booming accounts.** These numbers will be subject to change if further Booming Communities are selected. --- Booming support is given through votes from the @booming01-04 accounts, which each have 1.4 million Steem Power. Participating communities are invited to submit the best quality posts each day to receive the votes from the @booming accounts. Individual authors (including Admins, Mods and Community Accounts) should not receive more than two @booming votes per week from any single community. **Please would the leader of each selected community confirm acceptance in a comment below and include their contact details (Discord / Telegram).** --- --- ### Improving Communities

It was disappointing that we have not been able to select more communities at this time. There were a range of reasons why communities were not selected including… * **Admins currently powering down, or have recently stopped powering down.** * **Community accounts powering up very little, or not at all.** * **Community accounts cashing out significant amounts of their earnings.** * **Community accounts paying out significant amounts of their earnings to delegators.** * **Community accounts using significant amounts of their voting power on accounts not active in their community.** * **Community accounts giving significant amounts of their voting power to their Admins and Moderators.** * **Community accounts not using all their voting power.** * **Community accounts giving a high number of votes to one single account.** * **Admins (and Moderators) posting very little and not being very active.** * **Admins using, or delegating to, bid-bots or voting services.** --- **Our vision for communities and community accounts is that they should use as much as possible of their earnings (at least 75%) to build up their Steem Power so that they can give meaningful support to their members and lessen their reliance on @steemcurator01 and @steemcurator02.** This is the fundamental reason why we support community accounts. Unfortunately, a number of communities do not share this vision, and seem to view their community accounts just as a source of income for the community organizers. They are certainly entitled to take that course, but Steemit is not then obliged then to give them any extra support through projects like Booming Support. --- We are hoping all communities will take on board our observations and comments and change the way they operate. Over the coming weeks we will be monitoring the communities who applied and were unsuccessful. We will be on the lookout for any communities making significant positive changes to invite to join the Booming Support project. The communities now selected will also be monitored. Any that are found to be acting against the guidelines may be dropped from Booming Support. — — We hope the selected communities will make good use of the Booming Support. We look forward to being able to offer Booming Support to more communities who take on board our comments and suggestions. Thank you _The Steemit Team_ --- --- PLEASE NOTE : Because of the very large number of applications the selection of new Country Representatives is taking longer than anticipated. We hope to be announcing the new Country Reps by the end of the week.