[Popular STEM|Announcement] Pinned post slots available

Hello members of the Popular STEM community!

I wanted to post a short announcement, in case anyone missed it in my post on Saturday.

As previously announced, here, I have decided to start making use of our community's "pinned" slots in order to provide visibility for up to two promoted posts at a time in our community.

This means that if you use the Steem post promotion feature to promote a post in our community to the top-2 on our promoted page, the post will be eligible to stay on the very first page of our trending page or new posts page for as long as it remains pinned. The post will remain pinned until payout time, or until it gets outranked by another post in the promoted post list. (my own promotion that's currently occupying the top slot does not count as one of the top-2!)

Until further notice, I will be checking the Popular STEM promoted posts daily, and pinning the top-2 posts in the list for as long as they retain their position at the top.

To promote your post (or someone else's), you can send 0.001 or more SBD to @null with the memo field set to "@author/permlink". The higher the amount that gets sent to @null, the higher the post appears in the list.

It's important to note that I'm doing this manually and make no guarantees. Also, I reserve the right to not "pin" a post if it contains plagiarism or otherwise doesn't fit in with our our community's goals. If I happen to miss a promoted post, please feel free to let me know.

In the future, if we get enough interest, I have it in mind to eventually automate the pinning, and possibly to rotate all promoted posts, instead of just the top-2.

Finally, two technical notes:

• Only posts in Popular STEM are eligible to be pinned here.
• Transfers to @null are permanent and irreversible. Nobody controls that account and no refunds are possible.

Thanks for reading!