I keep seeing my name pop up regarding the curation of content.
I have always been open about how I use Steem and what I believe Steem will become.
I believe Steem will become the biggest social-economic ecosystem in the blockchain space. STEEM will drive it and SMT's/SE tokens will grow it.
It's been the essence of my blog for 3 years.
I still stand by my own vision for Steem after all those years.
But this vision doesn't manifest in a couple of days. It takes years. And Steem changes over the years with different Hard Forks.
Since HF 22, new rules have been introduced, obviously, I want to try them out.
So I talk openly about things like curating and about things I find out since the new system in a way other people would talk about a new expansion for World of Warcraft.
The way I play Steem has completely changed since HF22.
I used to make 14 posts a week. 7 about STEEM and 7 about good times with friends, beer, bbq, oldskool gaming.
I invested in STEEM to empower my own blog. I started with nothing, like anyone else.
Because almost nobody wanted to buy the amount of STEEM that I bought to empower their own blog, I ended up with a very select group of people still blogging (and not putting it into a bot) and having a decent stake that took the same risk.
You automatically ended up supporting each other in your blogging efforts because you are in the same boat and it gives income stability to your blog. And you also know they will keep that STEEM.
Very unlike those early content creators that where giving 100k+ SP without ever investing a penny and selling it all, and some slamming the door in your face on the way out.
Anyway. I no longer have to support my fellow risktaking bloggers and I no longer make 14 posts a week because the EIP has given me/us something great.
A way to still make my SP work for me, while my behavior benefits the platform more.
Is it perfect? no. Is it better? you bet it is.
I have realized that most people couldn't give a shit about my bbq posts, friends posts, beer selfies, gaming contests etc. etc. So I ditched all that and kept my Steem content. It's doing well.
Even though there is no view counter on Steem anymore someone is watching my vlogs cause they get a very decent amount of views for content so niche.
Also, Instead of allocating 8 votes a day to certain individuals (two votes to myself) I now support 40+ authors with an auto vote on several percentages. Usually, around the 4-5 minutes mark because that's the system that was implemented.
Do I read all those posts within 5 minutes? No, ofcourse I don't. I'm not a speed reader and some of these people post when I sleep.
Do I check the quality of their content? Yes, I do. But when it suits me.
Most of the users on my auto list are people I know have put a lot of time and effort into the platform and are still here after they went through all the shit.
Because the new system has just come out I see absolutely nothing wrong with giving back to those first.
I do swap them around. I removed 2 today and added a few more (some totally new) this morning.
I want to support these users because I think it's a good place to put some of the inflation which is my right to allocated as an SP holder.
It was funny to see to be instantly judged for that behavior on a person's post. Like it's all I do. I consider it another opinion formed without proper research to back it up. I have seen it a thousand time on Steem. You get immune to it and at times I just mute it because otherwise, I would go nuts.
I have plenty of votes left beside my auto list. 10 votes a day is a lot, especially when you break them up.
And I use them as I see fit.
This post, for instance, did very well, manually curated.
https://steemit.com/newsteem/@holm/i-just-turned-my-account-from-a-minnow-into-an-orca-what-now
I also sometimes go to the new page in the hope to find something decent. There almost never is. I don't enjoy it there very much.
But as it happens, this morning I did find something decent and upvoted it accordingly.
Sometimes I hear that making your SP work for you is something horrendous.
Well, that's easy to say when you never bought a penny of STEEM. But as an investor that's still buying STEEM today, that's simply too ludicrous to respond to.
Of course, I want SP to work for me, it's one of the most amazing things about investing in Steem.
I wrote recently I earned 950SP-1000SP on curating now. Or about 18% ROI on my SP (Absolutely barbaric!).
I believe that most of the STEEM I give away, for now, is going into the strong hands of people that believe in this place. Something this platform also needs. And I hope they pass it on to someone else.
I probably mix it all up moving forward, but this is how it it for now.
I don't see it as my role to discover new talent. I simply don't enjoy it. I do take recommendations though as I would if someone would recommend me a film or a book.
To me, It's up to the talent itself to get discovered. It's not a one-way street. Get active.
In my experience on Steem, there are certain individuals that make it work, get known, find support and grow their account and some can't do it. I don't know why that is, just that it is like that.
I can from here go on making a case that Steem is much more now than a content discovery platform and that some people live in the past when they only focus on that aspect of Steem.
But I think I rambled enough for a Sunday already.
So far I think #newsteem is pretty great. Giving plenty of options for SP holders to generate a decent ROI for showing behavior that benefits the platform more than before.
Not perfect, but better.
And it's catching on. Today for the first time in a long time the amount of liquid STEEM was reduced (200k powered up since yesterday).
If that trend can keep up I expect beautiful things.
Have a good Sunday.
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