what you are doing is pretty cool and helpful towards the community. I keep saying that interaction is the key that we need to do all we can to maintain this. I have also said multiple times about the bad interface that not really helps adding to it but ok :P
My opinion is to give the sp for at least a month given the fact that as you said engage. Either way you can check their profiles before you delegate and see whether they "deserve" it or not.
If you wanted to give 50SP to every user, you could only help 200,000 of them.
By the end of this year, we will most likely have over 1,200,000 accounts.
but if suddenly someone gave 50 or 100 or 200 sp to only the daily active users as a reward for their activity and interaction who are around 55-60k (exclude the bots and double accounts and you gonna have 30-40k) it will be great and a motivation factor for anyone!
Stats only indicate that we are 55 / 60K daily active users. The Netcoins contest though proved otherwise....I highly doubt we are that many...
One can be active without participating in a contest. Many are being "active" with very little transaction and mostly trying to show themselves off, not even reading a single post about how important it's to participate otherwise too.
and many use autoving services and curation trails that count them as active! From my understanding because i made a post about the sad reality of netcoins the active users that interact both by posting and commenting are around 10k from those 55-60k
The problem with giving out Steem Power is that it doesn't really empower creators who received such a gift.
We also don't want to give up on encouraging users to buy more Steem Power.
A week that I mentioned here is just for discouragement. Yes, you read that right. I don't want greed to come to play that's why it's not really profitable for abuse, and quite complex to be massively automated.
But it is still a nice bonus to have for users, that really just need some more Resource Credits for their daily routines.
i think there is no right and wrong answer to that, it's a matter of perspective. For instance i made an "oath" and many others too, not to spend a single $ of our own and only earn and spent what we are making here. So there is no way "people like me" to buy more Steem and thus SP.
Also, for me that mostly everyday making posts, upvoting, commenting and replying (all manually) if somebody gave me out of nowhere a certain amount of sp or add me in his autovoting list i would feel like he/she is giving me the world. Like my posts actually deserve something cause right now and given the real active users and bid bots there is not actual interaction and true content value. Thus i would get the motivation to become even better and even more active and thus spreading more Steemit, cause i would feel great
As i said again it's a matter of perspective and i think we are both correct and wrong at the same time. Some people with the extra sp will get motivated and and become way more active and others will just become more greedy especially if the delegation is for longer time