Supporting Steemians and The Steem Ecosystem

silentscreamer 6 years ago (edited)

If you are a manual curator I would love to hear how you are handling your curation. Here are some questions:
Should I base my upvotes solely on the quality of the posts and thereby support people who already know how to produce?
Should I assign some of the upvotes to people to encourage them to become great authors?

I am mostly a content creator right now but when i started up i was a Curie curator and i have been posting to #openmic since week 78 ( i think).
Above all else, i have to say, you should do with your stake as you feel. It all depends what you want to do.

All i I can give you is my example. I am one of those creators that started creating for STEEM. Before that i had maybe 2-3 videos. Im a classical violinist and a singer that never had any experience making videos and because i found one generous orca (Vortac) that supported me from day 1 i am still here. He and 2 Curie votes basically bought all the equipment i use right now.
Because of that one person i managed to win 5 openmics, made a huge number of friends, introduced many people to Steem. Got my bf to start posting. Made professional contacts...

All because 1 Orca account thought i was good enough to support consistently. Consistently is the important word here.

What i wanted to say is that you could go and give a random upvote here and there, never voting anyone consistently, never choosing your "talent" you think deserves the attention. And that is your choice.

But because Vortac voted me consistently i am now looking to invest a couple k USD into a professional music video to promote STEEM. A year ago i sat in my theater and played Operas..

Find a person you believe in and put all your chips on their number. :)

Dropping a few $ all across the platform doesnt do much. We dont create any stand out creators and at the end of the day someone getting a few dollars a month unfortunately wont keep them here. Curie was succesful back in the day because it gave you a 140 USD vote which would keep your enthusiasm up for a long time.

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bafi 6 years ago

I can easily agree with you. I've to mention that's extremely hard to find real support in the platform. Unfortunately consistency relies on both a solid project and also a solid income (or upvote as you want to say).
I love that you are first and foremost a steemian creator, and that's something that it's extremely valuable.
I'll try to become one soon enough, I'll start Aerial-Italy soon.

wish you the best with Patreon too @silentscreamer

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silentscreamer 6 years ago

Thank you Bafi. :)
All we can do is our best and hope it pays off in the end. I really cant wait for the time when Steem goes up in price so i can start making higher budget videos. Even if it is hard to find support, maybe the price increase will be the support we need. :)

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Thank you very much for sharing your story. Great advice. Now I go and turn the volume up to make the screamer less silent ...

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silentscreamer 6 years ago

Hehe. :)

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

sounds really good - screwed up the thumbnail but the movie works 😀.

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chireerocks 6 years ago

@mariusfebruary, I am a Full Time Steemian and i consider below points in Outflow Of My Votes and Point Of Engagement.

Steemians with whom i travelled and travelling this Steem Journey virtually.
Community Initiatives specially steps towards economically brokedown support initiatives.
New Projects.
Ulogs.

I want to appreciate your thought that now you will going to come up with a Pattern and Strategy and definitely it will going to put your Steem Power in effective use.

Wishing you great results ahead and stay blessed.

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Thank you, @chireerocks.

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chireerocks 6 years ago

Welcome and have a blessful time ahead.

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mindtrap 6 years ago

First of all I would like to thank you for being who you are. You are an example for many steemians out there. As a person who has been benefited from your upvotes from time to time, I am glad that you enjoy(?) my content.

As for your curation goals, even though you didn't have to ask anyone for"instructions" you wanted to know what the community thinks over that matter...and I think it's great.

I can only speak for myself. I manually curate posts on the "new" category regardless of the subject. Different people have different tastes so what for me might be a great post for you might happen to be the biggest shitpost ever made. So quality is kinda subjective...I also have some proven authors whose content is great for me, in auto pilot You are one of the very big stake holders of the platform so your vote, even though steem's price has dived as never before, can still make a huge difference. Even a small% of it. For me, the trick is a) to keep supporting those who are consistent and have a relatively good quality, b)support some newcomers which are going to struggle for sure.

You are already doing a great job so hats off to you anyways!

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sequentialvibe 6 years ago

I think your three questions cover most of the bases and they are in combination what I do. I also delegate to Dsound because I am a musician and they manually curate for me!

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glenalbrethsen 6 years ago

Hey, @mariusfebruary.

So, that's the trick, isn't it? Trying to reward content that holds some kind of value, while at the same time, encouraging more by those who might not quite be there yet.

I wish I had the perfect formula. There probably isn't one. But since you're asking for opinions, I generally try to keep up with what's going on in my feed (I follow less than 40 people at any given time), while going out into tags of personal interest, and occasionally ending up on the New page.

I don't have any specific splits in mind, but I do feel more of a need to continue to upvote what I believe to be value adding content, be it proven, new and starting out, or somewhere in between. The ratios are going to ultimately be based on the fact that there's only so much you can do, only so much time, if you're strictly manually curating.

Personally, I think there's lots of initiatives that are helping the newcomers regardless of their content. I'm looking for value adding content that I can then turn around and add value to, through commenting and curating.

Maximizing curation returns is going to be tough on any SP level, because basically, you have to get ahead of the larger upvote. If you are the large upvote, you're helping someone else. If you're not, then you need to know where the large upvote is going to go, and that's not an easy task if value is your number one goal.

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drumoperator 6 years ago

Marius, I can only speak for the @dsound community, but your patronage has incentivized a ton of great music content that had all but evaporated in the wake of Steemit Inc. pulling their delegation. I'm sure you can provide a similar lift to other creative pools on here that just need a little upvote power to begin galvanizing a core community.

Personally I've been giving the upvote methodology a ton of thought lately (thus why i asked about steemauto) ... as I round 10k SP I'm definitely looking to get out of the cycle of dropping 100 percent upvotes on 30 or 40 musicians at once and sitting on my hands while my steem power recharges. I'm going to do a curated list and just flat 10 percent upvote every name I recognize from the year and a half I've been manually curating music on here and go from there.

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blessed-girl 6 years ago (edited)

Hello, this is the second publication of yours that I read, and you seem to me to be very nice. Many people say that they vote for good content, but that is something difficult to define, because what is good for me, for you may not be good.
I think the idea of supporting people who are still small and have a pleasant content seems good.

My vote it does not have much value at the moment, but I vote for the people who publish topics that I like.

and if you want, you can see my content. to see if you like it, and if you like art you can visit my husband @theonlyway's blog.

Thanks in advance. :)

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marvyinnovation 6 years ago

Hi @blessed-girl,

Well said.

".... something difficult to define, because what is good for me, for you may not be good."

Obviously true.

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ddrfr33k 6 years ago

What you're doing right now definitely helps people. I'm more or less doing the same thing, albeit I'm just upvoting posts that I like. If I think it's a good post, I upvote it. If it's really good, I'll resteem it. I guess the biggest thing here is being positive through the whole thing, you know?

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abh12345 6 years ago

What a refreshing change, a whale who sees further than his own back pocket. If only there were more like you :)

May I suggest trailing @c-cubed who vote 10 times each day on the best content retrieved by over 400 curators working for @c-squared. @c-squared are also a witness and a good bunch of people.

Thank you for being here and doing what you can to help Steem grow.

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Thank you @abh12345 (it must have looked cool back when your reputation was 67). I am voting for c-squared and will look into c-cubed.

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abh12345 6 years ago

Ha! Yes I do remember noting the 1 through to 7 at that point in time. That's about as cool as it got for my spammy looking username :)

c-squared vote on a lot of posts, c-cubed vote on the cream of the submissions and output a daily post highlighted them too.

Have a nice weekend :)

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michelangelo3 6 years ago

I have noticed that I often stay in the familiar circle with my votes, although I would like to support new or rather unknown users. (For this purpose, I find this tool quite useful.) Also accounts like @driveforkids, @nosdos or @steemchiller who works tirelessly on steemworld.org - are great.

So I think a mixture of quality, encouragement, promotion of certain projects and of course personal preferences would be good.

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Thanks @michelangelo3. Wow so many new tools and accounts to read about. I know what I’ll do tomorrow.

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steemchiller 6 years ago

Wow, thank you so much for all your great support @mariusfebruary! You are proving the point that there are still a few creative, empathic and at the same time deep-thinking investors left in our world, who want to take part in healing the planet. Those are the real heroes of the new world.

As I see, my day starts with a big surprise:

That's a wonderful feeling and it motivates me to continue my path in 'working on a better world'. If you should miss anything in my tools or need a custom feature at some point in future, I'm your man ;)

Have a sunny day and keep your creative energy flowing.

LG, Chiller

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joshman 6 years ago

Yes, definitely 100% upvotes for @steemchiller!

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onepercentbetter 6 years ago

@mariusfebruary probably you can use the 80/20 rule
set 80% of your daily upvotes for goal #1, 20% for goal #2

If you're looking toward long term of steem chain future, i think of the 80% upvote for goal #1, again split it to 80/20
80% to new users from other platforms ie like you mentioned medium, fb, twitter, instagram, youtube etc to encourage them to start their journey on steem.

i remembered back when i just started, i was posting content on youtube and tried out steem. The learning curve was steep and so challenging to even make that $0.01 from a content i spent time and effort producing. If there's some sort of reward to new users, it will definitely help them to stay active on steem and spread the words to more friends and families in my own opinion!

PS : btw if you have friends that are already posting content on medium, get them to check out this TIMe save dApp. Automatically share those content over to steem chain with EASE. You’re gonna post on instagram, youtube, twitter, medium anyway, why not post and earn steem : https://share2steem.io/

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jadnven 6 years ago (edited)

Greetings dear friend.

I do not belong to that elite of powerful curators, as my voting power is only $0.0013, however I have seen how some friends such as @xpilar or @electrodo have created organized contests or topics to discuss where users are supported according to the contribution or content they have.

On the other hand, I would like to answer the questions according to my way of being to see if you are interested in implementing such a strategy:

Should I base my upvotes solely on the quality of the posts and thereby support people who already know how to produce?

If the quality is good, "YES", since everyone should have the right to be rated when it shows high quality content, I have seen users with a repute of almost 70 while their publications only contain 3 lines of text or less than 20 words.

Should I assign some of the upvotes to people to encourage them to become great authors?

Votes are the main motivation for us Steemit writers no matter what the value. But, without a doubt whoever receives a good vote will be able to increase their performance and power as long as acceptable content is presented for the benefit of the platform, if most of us send the support received a large chain of support could be formed.

How much should I direct towards diversification? For example, to make the place more interesting by upvoting authors from many countries (that may follow ethical rules that would be called unethical elsewhere)?

All those who are loyal to the rules deserve support, here in Venezuela we live in strong times and sometimes I find it difficult to publish a post either because there is no internet, computer or simply because there is no electrical service.

I will always be grateful to those who seek to support others in a disinterested way and with all good will, God bless.

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Thank you for the detailed answers @jadnven.

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electrodo 6 years ago

Hello friend @mariusfebruary , before I begin, I apologize for my bad English, it really helped me a lot with Google.

Since I started in steemit one of my goals was to invest and be able to support more users the idea is to add people to the platform very difficult task but I have tried to do I have held events culture competitions customs and folklore with a team of qualified people to be as objective as possible.

But sometimes I have seen people with high SP with very low values of ethics that create monopolies and do not seek to help anyone, other people write very well but they are not constant and maybe a month later they say goodbye to steemit, there are those who ask only because it is the easiest way and there are those who do it because they really need or hunger if you do not help is wrong before the law of God and if you do it knowing that your publication does not meet even the minimum to be supported is not ethical.

So my friend is a difficult subject to handle and it will depend on the angle that is seen and the criterion or objectivity of the curator. A pleasure to visit your Blog.

Regards.

Thank you @jadnven for mentioning the work is being done and I see that it is coming to the community I feel very happy to be your reference.

Electrodo

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jadnven 6 years ago

Gracias a ti amigo @electrodo, conozco su buen trabajo y a pesar de no ser un usuario que haya recibido sus votos siempre estaré agradecido por el apoyo que brindas a otros, y es como tu dices, muchos se aprovechan de la buena fé y no corresponden con etíca. es un honor hacer referencia de su buena labor.

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maxdevalue 6 years ago

Hello, you got a nice heart, we truly need more of your personality kind.

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geekgirl 6 years ago (edited)

It is really interesting and welcoming to see more and more whale Steemians being interested in long term vision and gains rather than short term rewards. I think if this trend persists large stakeholders will see growth in value of their stakes. You are making a difference. Thanks a million!

I like your first strategy of rewarding those who are making a platform switch. Often times we hear people keep talking about marketing Steem and onboarding. But not much being addressed taking care of those come in as a result of the onboarding, marketing, and those who make the switch in general. I think this is a great strategy, as some just leave after trying Steem for a short time without much success.

I would focus on categories that interest you the most and what kind of content you would like to see grwo on Steem. Curie, ocd, Steemstem, utopian, and others try to support certain categories based on their criteria. Maybe curate and extend support to the under-supported categories that you may find interesting.

In conclusion, I think you can lead and make a big impact on a switch to Steem movement.

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Thank you @geekgirl for your great suggestions.

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joshman 6 years ago

I think there isn't one right answer. If your goal is to spread around some wealth, it will be difficult because you only have one set of eyes. I delegate a decent chunk of my SP to @ocdb and some to @accelerator, because not only am I getting a return, I have another set of eyes searching for quality content on my behalf. On the not for profit side, I delegate to @curie, and also follow their curation trail among others. There are also some bots (not bid bots) you can delegate to that give organic upvotes based on qualifying tags (like @artturtle, @thejollyroger, @tommyknockers, @steeming-hot). I get an upvote from them if I use those tags, but that isn't necessarily my primary motivation for delegating to them.

I also created a separate account called @steempatron and delegated about 20% of my SP to it. The sole purpose of that account is to track down influencers with large followings outside of STEEM. I'm trying to advance the idea that we have folks on this platform already that have millions of followers on platforms like Twitter, etc. For many of them posting to STEEM is an afterthought because their reception here is lukewarm. I also have a list of influencers who have come and then lost interest.

With whatever SP I have left, aside from curating topics that interest me, I like to dip into the #introduceyourself tag and give upvotes there, and also look for and support people trying to find innovative ways to create value on the platform, like @streetstyle and his #spud initiative.

In any case, I do see your upvotes quite a bit out there, so you must be doing something right. If you're curating and rewarding, and consistently using your VP, does it really matter in the end if you are acting in good faith? Just do you, we need diversity in good faith action.

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Many thanks @joshman for all the insights. I trail @curie already but curious to learn about the other accounts/bots you mentioned.

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photocircle 6 years ago (edited)

Hi Marius, I'm glad to know your good intentions for the steem ecosystem, your final note have stated the best possible outcome that could happen with the combined effort of the steem community.

As for our curation style, the approach that I did is to run a contest that will motivated the participants to:

produce a certain theme of photo using a specific #tag
generate engagement among participants through comment contest
reward winning participants with tokens to have an added "sense of being recognize"

I believe there are other projects who use a similar format.

The winning participants' posts will then be collated in a single post and then share to other platforms via tweet, reddit, medium...etc
Currently, I'm utilizing twitter.
There are new users who mentioned that they learn about steem or steemit through twitter or facebook.

This method could also be applied to general "quality" long form of contents. A curator could perform in this manner:

upvote quality contents
collate in a single post and provide a credible introduction about the featured author(s) & their post
post to Steemit
cross post / share link to Reddit or Medium to attract attention

The goal is to motivate Steem users to produce quality contents and encourage engagement among other users.

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tts (1) 6 years ago

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therealwolf 6 years ago

This might be something you could use, so people can curate for you: https://wise.vote/

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Thank you. I briefly looked into it a few days ago but still have to get to understand it better.

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acesontop 6 years ago

The quality topic is pretty subjective and it's hard to say that, yes this post is a quality one and that is not, excepting spam of course. In regards of strategies to use your SP I really don't see any other better than just your gut feeling and inspiration. Whatever you feel like to upvote at the moment is the best decision.

Should I assign some of the upvotes to people to encourage them to become great authors?

I would definitely do that. I know how hard it was for me at the beginning to get some attention and I was posting four times a day. Pretty long blogs, not like the ones I have now :) I am sure that some newbies that have something to say and not too much attention will appreciate a lot your votes. Other than that I appreciate your intentions and it's great that you are thinking to manually curate instead of simply delegate to bid bots
and get your passive income for your vested Steem. I would do the same.

Great job and good luck!

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svemirac 6 years ago

If you are a manual curator I would love to hear how you are handling your curation. Here are some questions:

To be honest I just passed a benchmark of 5k steem, on my blogging account - which I see an achievement, but Can't really make a difference regarding curation. However, long ago I decided to join Curie curation team, and recently I was invited to OCD curation group (I guess the reputation follows :) ).

Should I base my upvotes solely on the quality of the posts and thereby support people who already know how to produce?

Ah that quality - and exceptional quality, these two words are so mystified on steem. To be honest, I don't like them - I like to curate interesting posts, something that radiates out of the mass production. The same thing is - photos don't always have to be made with the latest tech, but the composition and adding a bit of writer's soul to the post is what I'm looking for when curating. (I never had an expensive Camera - yet managed to get few rewards, but obviously, sometimes I really like to write :))

Should I assign some of the upvotes to people to encourage them to become great authors?

Another problem... The authors I liked and saw the potential in them were usually dropping non-effort posts, but whenever they but a bit of effort I would try to get them at least a bit higher reward than they usually get - just trying to get them to realize that it's okay to spend more than 10-15 minutes per post. So my answer is positive to this question, but carefully choosing which posts you curate and not too often, then people become lazy, and don't tend to change anything.

How much should I direct towards diversification? For example, to make the place more interesting by upvoting authors from many countries (that may follow ethical rules that would be called unethical elsewhere)?

Another thing we tried to do with the @crowdmind project, to try and unite as many countries as possible under one umbrella - and diversify curation of crowdsourcing activities, but usually all countries have their teams and try to stick together and they are not willing to change anything (sticking to tradition :) ).
So, if it doesn't take you too much time and effort to filter authors through a country of origin and language, that is a nice way to distribute steem all over the world - and I really like of the charity efforts done on the blockchain.

And that is a long read, sorry about that :) I'm so happy that.

P.S.
Your note at the end just shows what a great person you are! It's a pleasure sharing the network and words with you.

Cheers!

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svemirac 6 years ago

And since no one mentioned.... here is a little tool developed by my friend and sponsored by curie steem lookup. You don't need to register, but if you do you can save your searching filters. It is pretty intuitional to use - most left are the filters, middle line = list of posts, and a preview of the selected post. So you can use different filters for a different type of content curation - it is very useful and time saving.

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Thank you a ton @svemirac for your pro advice and insight and your kind words. This will help me revise/improve my strategy.

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tatdt 6 years ago

In the first words, I want to thank you for your support.

I cannot answer your questions, but I can tell you about my own strategy. The blogs started for me in 2006 when I discovered LiveJournal. I was captivated by the simple, creative and friendly atmosphere of this platform. It was software for free, no one wanted to make money on his blog. Subsequently, the situation has changed. The new LJ leadership made enormous efforts to monetize everything possible, and many bloggers followed suit. The platform has ceased to be intimate and cozy, and most of my friends moved to social networks, the number of users of which grew like an avalanche.

But I was not interested in Facebook and VK. Blogs on blockchains like Steemit seem to me much more interesting. I found here the possibility of self-expression and the opportunity to communicate with interesting people. Although my English is very far from perfect, I try to improve it in order to communicate with people from all over the world. Therefore, my curation strategy is very simple. I am looking for interesting people who write about their country and their lives and support their posts. Some of them always generate great content. I added these authors to the list of automatic curation. The rest of the posts I upvote selectively. But my SP is not so great to worry about the fairness of upvoting and strive to reach all worthy participants.

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Thank you @tatdt ... also for your great pictures from places I don't know yet.

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josediccus 6 years ago

@mariusfebruary hello? First of the best way is to look past the group of people you may be familiar with, there are so many particular content creators, I know you curate music and dsound a lot however you get also check great tags and ask for recommendations with posts like this one, just looking or setting your mind to the best Is the best strategy

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oldtimer 6 years ago

It will take you some time to figure out the best voting strategy. Steem is a very complex machine.

Maybe you should also start claiming free accounts with your ample amount of Resource Credits.

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Creating free accounts is an interesting idea. I was discussing this in Barcelona at the @dtube.forum as we were planning to onboard new members. Say I had claimed 100 account tickets using SteemWorld. How would I then proceed? How would I best feed these free accounts into an existing onboarding process?

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oldtimer 6 years ago

I just claiming and keeping them every day for now.
I think that at @steemonboarding they'll know more about this.

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gloriouskids 6 years ago

Hello sir @mariusfebruary , your intentions are right, Steem is diversified, in it one can achieve many things simultaneously; powering up here is good for business of making some gain from your investment and also for supporting other Steemians especially unnoticed good authors, it’s also not bad looking out for the less privileged, and organizations on steem; people going through difficulties.

We’re new here on steem, we’re a school found on love for the less privileged and orphans in West Africa, you can read our introduction post in our blog for more information about us. Sir we may also need your assistance here. Remain blessed. Yours @gloriouskids

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Thank you, I will go read your intro post.

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gloriouskids 6 years ago

Thanks a lot sir.

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randomwanderings 6 years ago

Hello Marius!

You really are the best type of Steem user. Not only do you have the means to invest large amounts into the system, but you are not just in it for yourself. It is great that you are looking for ways to help others grow, and in turn help Steem grow.

My personal answers for your questions are as follows:
#1 - Yes, I think you giving upvotes to quality content is a great idea. Even those that know how to create great content need that boost so they don't lose interest when they see their effort get no reward.

#2 - This would be a good balance to add in with #1. Along with that, perhaps if you find an author that you think has potential to become a great author, maybe delegate some small amount of steem to them so it is easier for them to move forward with posting, commenting, and voting. And the little boost they get from someone can go a long way to make them want to stay.

#3 - I think this can be done among accomplishing #1 and #2. It is an important aspect as well. For many Steem users a decent reward they can get from a single post can go a long way to helping them live.

I would love to talk to you about more ideas on how to accomplish all of those things. My name is Gene and I am co-founder of @c-squared / @c-cubed a curation group which you were gracious enough to give one of your witness votes to.

We have over 200 active curators bringing posts to us, and upvote more than 700 posts in most weeks. Then a smaller group of us choose 10 posts every day to include in a daily curation post on @c-cubed, those posts also get a 100% upvote from @c-cubed. Our votes right now are small, but support is growing, and we do offer some great exposure to authors as well. We also curate posts in 6 languages other than English which are curated by curators who are native speakers in each language.

Again, would love to talk to you some more. Feel free to contact me on Discord @randomwanderings #9929 or by email at [email protected]

Thanks for all you are doing here on the platform,
Gene

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Thank you @randomwanderings. I will DM you in the next days.

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tggr 6 years ago

Why overthink this? What’s wrong with the good old strategy where you upvote what you actually like and or see where the author has put some effort in creating. Isn’t that the problem that everyone is trying to find a formula for doing things, in process we forget the only thing what makes us different from machines: we’re unpredictable.

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Well said @tggr.

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prydefoltz 6 years ago

I also manually upvote and I can tell you there is no shortage of quality posts on steemit. So I look at it from the point of view that when steemit/sister apps succeed we all do. I look to upvote those people who not only create quality ... like I said ... there is no shortage of these, but also those people who are engaging beyond post writing on the platform.

If I upvote a post and leave a quality comment on the post, do you return the action? (General you and you specifially ;) Do I see you in the comments sections of others? Do you run contests or curate a posting tag? Are you building steem with me or are you dropping a post, all be it a quality one, and then just waiting for upvotes and not bothering to even comment on the comment I left you. I quickly tire of these kinds folks and move onto the builders, those engaged with building the steem ecosystem.

I think people over-estimate the whole importance of the "quality post' thing. We need more people engaging. If someone drops say just a meme (I have never done this) but then dozens of people visit the post and drop their owns memes and there is considerable traffic on the page, they are building steem way more than someone that wrote the next volume of shakespeare and no one read it. But they botted the crap of out it and it is worth a million.

I'd say find what you love(there's your quality control) and build your community around it.

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mariusfebruary 6 years ago

Great thoughts @prydefoltz - thank you. Engagement is key 👏🏻

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joseacabrerav 6 years ago

in my personal opinion you had to curate great quality content and content that is going to be quality content, you set the rules of what quality content means to you! (: but always a good feedback it's apreciated it.

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bil.prag 6 years ago

considering what you wrote at the end, you should do what feels good and right to you, and most important fun. If it ends up feeling like a chore it will stop to be fun. Vote posts that you enjoy.

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https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@srigari/hi-i-am-sri-and-i-d-love-to-share-my-failure-story-with-you - this one

slobberchops 6 years ago

I only noticed you a couple of days ago. You gave a nice vote to a new person who I found as a new user and resteemed it in an attempt to gain it some attention.

I do this a couple of times a week, but it's tough to find good ones. It's refreshing that you are doing this as we have the same goals in that respect.

Whether @srigari continues posting we don't know, but it helps to give promising people a good start. Thanks.

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isaria 6 years ago

Hi Marius!
I run the Minnow Support Curation Initiative. Each day the curators focus on a different tag/category.
I personally curate posts that are a few days old and are high quality with low payouts.
My overall goal is to help Minnows and new users who may be struggling on the platform to get noticed.
I also run a couple of contests each week where users can send me their posts and I curate them using a few different accounts and also award Steem prizes.
Thank you for caring so much about Steem and supporting Steemians!!!

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krnel 6 years ago (edited)

I would say go with what you value. That can vary from person to person. I started out here wanting to put out quality information that can make people realize problems in the world, and ways to learn and better ourselves out of problems to make our lives and the world a better place. Some was original content, some was based on other content. I also wanted to see more of that as that was valued to me.

Maybe quality infromation isn't what you're into, and instead quality posts of any subject matter is what you want to support. Go for what you value and want to see more of on the platform, I would say.

That's how curation should be geared as I see it, based on human evaluations for content each person values. I value valuable quality information that can change the world for the better, while the majority of people prefer less serious and more light and "fun" things. So if I want more of the valuable quality information to get out, it needs to be encouraged over the light and "fun" topics that appeal to a majority and quantity of the population. It may not be "popular", but it's what matters more to me, to see more quality information than popular quantity of content being posted to make Steem popular.

Different people want different things, and I've been developing KURE as a way to empower people to form communities and collaborate to curate based on shared values.

Good luck in finding your groove and rewarding what you value and want to see more of ;) Peace.

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crypto.piotr 6 years ago

Dear @mariusfebruary

I only had a chance to read your post now and it's already a bit to old to upvote. I wonder if you will even read my comment :)

In Steem I see the possibility to find great content while at the same time supporting the creators and the platform.

STEEM indeed gives opportunity for many content creators to monetize their work and to build their reach the way facebook or other centralized media couldn't provide. Not to mantion that steem is so much more transparent, and that builds trust.

However, I am still trying to find out how to best support people and projects on this platform.

I'm one of those whos efforts are supported by you and together with @neavvy, @jadams2k18, @fucho80, @juanmolina and @lanzjoseg we are absolutely grateful.

People like you are very rare and I would like you to know, that your efforts are recognized by many.

ps.
It's very difficult to find right answer for your question. I strongly believe that each of those strategies require different amount of time and effort which you would need to put personally. And that may be the most important factor to take into consideration.

In my opinion we have enough of quality authors. Steemit is lacking quality curators. So that's where I would still put my focus. On supporting those who curate content, which you consider worth rewarding.

I know you've been doing it already and doing it right. Keep up with great work buddy :)

Yours
Piotr

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machnbirdsparo 6 years ago

In my opinion we have enough of quality authors. Steemit is lacking quality curators.

I tend to agree. I suspect the reason for this are due to account created merely to siphon Steem rewards and frustration of many big accounts who began to automate.

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steemitboard 6 years ago

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daltono 6 years ago

I use SteemAuto to support certain users consistently by becoming a fan.
For instance if you wish to support my art, you can set SteemAuto to automatically vote for my posts when I post. I’ve found that 33% voting power works best for my voting schedule.
That’s just one option.

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partiko 6 years ago

Thank you so much for participating in the Partiko Delegation Plan Round 1! We really appreciate your support! As part of the delegation benefits, we just gave you a 3.75% upvote! Together, let’s change the world!

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ajks 6 years ago

You are really very kind and supportive. I hope sometimes I also get your upvote

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esteemapp 6 years ago

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rechylove 6 years ago

Wow wat an inspiring writeup, tanks 4ur contributions to steem.... more wins to u sir

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adenijiadeshina 6 years ago

Sometimes trying out different strategies based on reward content. I believe they are many authors out there who really needs to be encouraged about their content and work to become a great author. There are some people out there which out of frustration and lack of getting support, they have left steemit. Showing support and encouraging ones effort and content can go a long way beyond what we may imagine. I am an example

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clamon 6 years ago

Hi @mariusfebruary!!!

I met steem only a few months ago and I really believe in the project and in the fact that we need to create quality content to get a nice reward. This leads all of us authors and curators to improve, creating better and better content for the community.
As for the "curation", I personally follow people who publish quality content of my interest.
I support all of them (even if my vote at the moment is worth little!) and I donate a percentage of my vote based on the quality of the content.
important in my opinion, to find new authors to increase our catchment area, helping as many people as possible!
I believe in STEEMIT and each of us must do our utmost to grow the community!
A greeting and a hug
Claudio 😁

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adeljose 6 years ago

Dear friend.

I am pleased that there are still people interested in the development of other colleagues in Steemit, without a doubt this has become a centralized business among the great whales, there are very few who really bet on the balance and valuation of content in this network. I don't think there is any inconvenience in the way to support, everyone can be a designer of his own style, in the end the most important thing is that the goal is achieved efficiently.

There are ways such as working with a specific tag, or requesting to be mentioned in the article so you can track those publications through steemconect or another application, the contests are also valid, the #ccc team has several colleagues who promote contests to be voted like @pifc, all generate great results and benefits.

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arcange 6 years ago

Congratulations @mariusfebruary!
Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following category:

Comments - Ranked 8 with 58 comments

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ylich 6 years ago

Hello my dear friend!

Regarding your questions I think the following:

To the first point, I think both options are great and important. In first place I put the quality content itself, and I think it's important to keep some support to the authors we already know they made good content. Because in many time, like myself, we stay without upvotes, because some guilds consider we need no more support, or because of our high reputation we should not receive any extra help, and because we're not newbies anymore need not to get upvotes...

In second place the support for these people we believe can make a good job, as you said to encourage them to keep creating content, since there are many authors they start doing a great work, but they loose the hopes of getting rewarded.

To the third topic I think it's up to everyone. I you decide to support (for example) just music, it's fine, because your contribution will be a big one and I think sometime it's important to set a big reward to the authors to awaken a deep interest in the competition, in making really awesome content. But distributing that reward among many also has its merit and benefits for the entire community.

If I were in your position I would directly support some authors and projects and since it's impossible to make a daily curation for such high level, I would look up for the work of some communities and follow their trails.

But there is a saying that says: "every head is a world".

I hope this reflection will help you.

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mcnestler 6 years ago

Hi @mariusfebruary,

I am a small fish here in the Steemit world. I did not invest so far, but I do want to put in some money in the ecosystem once the prices will go down a bit after the recent increase :) I am here for about 6 months. Sometimes more active sometimes not. I see your point with quality posts and I had the same issue in the beginning. I came across @pifc where other steemians look for small accounts creating good content and support those who just started. The main problem here is that some people think growing is easy and fast but you have to put a lot of effort into it to grow steady.

To your questions:

Should I base my upvotes solely on the quality of the posts and thereby support people who already know how to produce?

I think you should consider autovotes on profiles you like because after 15 minutes the curation is the highest. When you set it up you do not have to worry about that you might miss some upvotes and therefore a curation. With @crypto.piotr mentioning it in one of his posts I learned that I can earn some extra by just doing that with the accounts I like :)

Should I assign some of the upvotes to people to encourage them to become great authors?

I might do not speak for everyone, but I consider this as a dream. In my case it is sometimes really frustrating when you do some research and want to produce an interesting post and have a payout of only 0.05$. I think with upvotes you can definatly encourage people to get better and to work hard so that you also have the pleasure to read interesting articles :)

How much should I direct towards diversification? For example, to make the place more interesting by upvoting authors from many countries (that may follow ethical rules that would be called unethical elsewhere)?

This is a more difficult one, but I would say that you can choose your beneficiaries based on your own opinion. If you like the content someone produces it does not really matter where he or she is coming from :) There are hidden gems from every country.

Note:

I totally see your point, that this project is also monetary driven. I mean what is wrong with it :P And as a normal business man, I can totally see that you are driven on ROI.
With the points I made in the beginning, I think you are good to go :)
I might have not the best Steemit expertise, but it is an ongoing process and I learn every day.

Have a good start into the week,
Max

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blueeyes8960 6 years ago

I came to your post because I recently received a nice upvote from you and wanted to say thank you. I couldn't begin to tell you how to curate or best distribute your votes. I hope to someday have this problem for myself! As it stands for me now, I love to curate and read all kinds of posts, but an influencer with vote power I am not. I would like to think my motivating comments would be at least encouraging for other content creators. I know how much a meaningful comment by someone who enjoyed my content means to me. I just had my 1 year anniversary on Steem a few days ago, and it is a rough start and a hard platform to get to know. But over this year I have made countless online friends. I appreciate your willingness to tackle this upvoting and curating problem from the direction of how best to help Steem, instead of how best to line your pockets. Steem could use more of your integrity!

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kaminchan 6 years ago

Goodness! This article is just amazing and blowing my mind!

Are you ready?! I have never met someone who is so logical and ethically minded at the same time!

Your goodness and amazing intention are just incredible!

I wish you were a bit psychic so that you’ll know whom your upvotes would make such a big difference to someone’ s life that day!

Wishing you all the success and lots of good karmic results!

Cheers.

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marvyinnovation 6 years ago

Hi @mariusfebruary,

First things first. Of late, Whale Steemians like you, but very few, are taking a step forward, that too, very broadly, to develop this Steem community, by helping planktons, minnows and small fishes.

As said by many Venerable Steemians, our Steem community is undergoing a favorable shift towards prosperity and this is what is needed at this critical juncture to make #Steemit a force to reckon with!

"Should I base my upvotes solely on the quality of the posts and thereby support people who already know how to produce?"

To save our Steemit, we need to support "Quality posts" and your upvotes must be SOLELY based on this single criteria. Every single upvote is invaluable and so this criteria must never be sidelined come whatever may. Please don't think whether you're are upvoting known or unknown, but also encourage with your upvotes to those new entrants to Steemit who are posting quality content.

"Should I assign some of the upvotes to people to encourage them to become great authors?"

Definitely Sir, you must.

This is my humble opinion, @mariusfebruary.

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isaria 6 years ago

Thank you, Marius, for supporting the msp-music initiative!❤️

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jadams2k18 6 years ago

Thanks for your support. I'm trying to do my best everyday

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joedukeg 6 years ago

Hello @mariusfebruary, is there any way to contact you? I have a proposal that you may find attractive, you could benefit a large community, help the Steem blockchain adoption and obviously benefit you as a supporter.

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dreemsteem 6 years ago

I didn't know that you were a whale... Only noticed some of your votes on my work recently!

And happened to wander around and eventually find this post of yours!

I can say ...I've been here since Nov 2016, and have grown steadily... (JUST became a dolphin!! Woo hoooo) and it is SO incredibly significant and encouraging STILL to see new names appreciate my work!!!

I agree with @abh12345... What a wonderful refreshing concept! Hehhee to see that there are still whales that believe in the platform and want to encourage!!!

As a dolphin (now... Again... Woo hoooo!) I try to help those around, above but especially below me!

Even as a minnow, I founded Welcome Wagon based on the principles of TRULY helping the newbie . We were never about numbers. Always about hand holding quality Steemians ans making this place better.

I've since handed that project over to two amazing people (@shadowspub and @bluefinstudios...though I still do things behind the scenes hehehe) but now I spend more of my time on my other passion... Helping families! (With Spunkee Monkee)

I realize this is a long comment on an older post...hehehe so I hope you see this and at least know how much people like you are appreciated!!!

Thank you so much for taking the time to curate! Though people may not pay attention to amounts or frequency of your votes... They DO see a new name and think...oh cool! I got a new interest! Hehehe

Thank you again 😊

When I start to get worried about steem... Its people like you that make me think...a new wave is just around the corner hehehe

Leah 🙂

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blewitt 6 years ago

I know I’m about 2 months late to this post but I wanted to thank you first and foremost for being here. It takes a set of balls to buy a ton of Steem, power it up, and try to help the community prosper. The alternative which is to rape the pool is too easy if you have the means...so kudos to you.

You had a ton of great input here so I’m probably just parroting a bit, but I don’t think there is a perfect formula to manual curation.

I’ve seen so many folks here talk about only quality content is deserving and all that. I disagree. That’s never going to bring the masses here. Granted, should we all strive to put out something useful or of interest...of course. But at the same time, the guy talking about and showing off his new car or the student discussing the stresses of midterms...those are of value as well. Maybe not to you or I but to someone. We just need to bring the people here.

In my main field which is Collectibles, most people here outside of a handful truly give a shit. But I know to those folks, my posts hold value as theirs do to me. That’s why I’m trying like hell to grow that specific community.

I think that’s important and sadly i feel I’m in the minority in that thinking.

I personally support those in my field, those working to make this platform a better one through various methods, friends I’ve made here, and of course...posts I find that hold value to me.

Not sure if that helps at all but figured I’d throw my hat into the ring as well. Looking forward to conversing more.

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