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The biggest hurdle which steemit needs to address, in my opinion, is the problem of the quality reward system. At the moment, reputation is everything meaning that people with high rep who are posting mediocre content will make large rewards on posts which don't deserve it. This is not the case with all high rep early adopters, many of them are fantastic writers/creatives but the discrepancy between quality and perceived quality based on rep, leaves a bitter taste in the mouth for most new steemians. When you sign up there is no adequate explanation as to how things work, which leads to despondency and the belief that the cards are stacked against you. Discord communities are a great way to learn the ropes, but not everyone is a natural at networking. Some people are shy, or introverted, as I am in person, networking feels very much unnatural and stressful to them.
This is why I am passionate about the amazing work that Curie does. Curie manages to partly redress the balance between rep perception and quality based on merit.
I wanted to do something a little different for my curie story post, so I have decided to write and perform a poem detailing my journey and how curie helped me find my place on this platform. Check out the Dsound reading above and the written version + soundcloud version below.
I first joined steemit
nine months ago and counting
full of dreams of stacks
of crypto cash bounty,
my first month was full of doubt
I couldn’t figure
any of it out
meanwhile I made
pennies and found it hard
to muster a smile.
Then bam it hit me
a massive vote on my
latest post and
I’m left scratching
my head
wondering who
is this Hendrikdegrote
and how can I board
this curie boat.
I let these thoughts
gestate
for a week or two
unsure what to do
continued writing
felt excitement
each time I hit publish
as I battled my demons
whispering that everything
I wrote was rubbish
but somebody values
what I’m saying so lets
just keep on going
and keep on praying.
Second curie dropped
like a bomb on a post
I spent 7 hours writing
and editing, it felt like
a light had gone on.
Inspiration, elation,
smile a mile wide
igniting a pride
reopening my
writers’ eye.
I googled curie
discovered a story
of people hunting,
curating and rewarding,
I found steemit dot chat
curie room and felt
at home as I read.
I struck up a conversation
about the things that
frustrated me
in my steemit journey.
Plagiarised, copy/paste
waste of space posts
flying about, and shite
reaching the heights
through bought votes.
What I was expressing
must have hit a note,
tamacvet offered
to train me to curate
and I learned,
that a place needed
to be earned
through high standards
and hard work.
To cut a long story short,
I was recommended.
from then on I suspended
my self-doubts
learnt community
is the route
to success on steemit.
Re-lived that smile
a mile wide every time
I submitted and learned
that the post
had received the vote
it deserved.
See, without curie,
and other guilds
Steemit wouldn’t be
the same. New people
would only have one option
to play the networking game
in discord, to catch
any type of break.
Very few, would ever
know what it is like
to receive a whale
upvote.
Without curie
this platform
would mainly be,
top-down
circle jerk,
bidbot voting,
self delegating,
ego inflating,
abuse!
And real quality
would be
like a teardrop
in the sea,
quickly diffused.
So, go vote curie witness,
or better yet, if able
delegate to help keep
the curie vote stable
and encourage real quality
for all the committed,
consistent content creators,
just like you… and me.
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