I admire what you do with your delegation initiative, @thedarkhorse.
It's a bit alike to what my Redfish Rockets contest was at the end.
I just changed my approach, because a lot of newcomers don't have a clue where to start, who to visit etc.
I'm currently targeting the people who have like 15SP, which allows them to make a post and 2 comments a day. I go look for them, because I believe changes are pretty small they will find my post in the neverending stream of posts.
Your way is more effective in the way that less SP goes to waste. Because I have kind of a lot of SP delegated to people who have disappeared after publishing two posts. Maybe I should think about a stricter follow up: I give them way too much time before I retract the delegation.
I used to have some conditions for people to keep the delegation, like publishing at least 3 posts a week. However, after getting a lot of feedback from other community members, I got rid of that condition. Maybe it would be a good thing to reinstate it - even if it is just requiring to publish 1 post a week and actively engage in the community.
I'm struggling with upvoting... I currently have 20 people I delegate to, and I feel like I should be giving them a daily upvote. Thing is that I don't want to automate that, because I don't want to encourage them when they post for example DW battles. But going around every day, is too time-consuming. Still trying to figure that one out...
All of the DW, Twitter feed, actfit, and so forth spam is getting really out of hand so I get not wanting to automate.
I think that a requirement to post is completely acceptable. IMO I want to support content producers so if someone isn't posting I see no reason to support them. But the nice thing is we can all take different approaches and cover a lot of ground.
I've updated my comment with some conditions:
Also, I am following up more closely, and react sooner when they haven't posted in a while.