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. To decentralize the community, and to boost involvement of members within the community a discord channel will manage the curation of posts.What is Geopolis?
Geopolis is a community that connects people who are interested in fields of "global" sciences. These deal with planet earth and the interesting interactions taking place on it. Although just as fascinating, they do not always fit in the categories of "STEM". Here at Geopolis, these sciences are the corner stone of the community. Each day well-written posts get upvoted and supported that deal with one of these sciences (see tags below). For involvement behind the curtains, check out our Discord!
What posts will be upvoted?
You can get your post reviewed by using the #geopolis tag, or one of the other supported categories: #geography, #geology, #anthropology, #ecology, #archeology and certain fields of #history. You posts does not have to be a perfect scientific report on a subject, but it should at least comply with these quality standards:
- Written in proper English
- Be original and decent content
- Sources cited and images credited when necessary
- Well-formatted
- Well-researched if necessary
- Have no more than 10 SBD rewarded from voting bots
Upvoting is done through a channel on the Discord server. A little mix of hand picked curators have the permission to get good posts upvoted they might come across. Almost everyday all new posts in the given categories get reviewed one by one. If your post wasn't selected within two or three days after posting you can ask in the discord server for personal feedback on your writing.
What does Geopolis offer?
- Geopolis offers upvotes and resteems for quality posts in the above mentioned fields. The size of the upvote depends on the type of membership the author holds within the community (see below). There is no limit on the amount of posts that can be supported, If your posts is well thought out and of good quality, it deserves the support.
- A post (Daily Field Notes) every few days containing a selection of posts from the different scientific fields covered by Geopolis. This way you can easily get a selection of posts that are worth reading.
- A curation trail on SteemAuto allows you to follow Geopolis and be the first to support quality posts on the topics supported by Geopolis. To set up an account is fairly simple. Go to https://steemauto.com/, log on with your credentials and find @geopolis in the list of curation trails.
- The community on Discord allows you to connect with other Geopolitans and interact with the community.
Memberships
Any account writing in the categories mentioned above are able to get supported by Geopolis. Base votes are currently worth less than one SBD (0.07) so your support will surely help many others. You can become a member which will not only help us grow, but also offers you bigger rewards. Depending on the amount of support you give, your possible rewards can increase as well.
Member statuses can be found in the discord channel or asked in the comments.
| Advantages | How to become one | |
| Member | Upvote worth 2x base vote |
A one time fee of 1 steem/SBD Transfer the membership fee to @geopolis and optionally ask a moderator on discord for confirmation |
| Member+ | Upvote worth 4x base vote |
Be a member and upvote at least 5 of the 7 posts written by Geopolis (Daily Field Notes) |
| Helper | Upvote worth 5x base vote |
Be already a member(+) Delegate 50SP to Geopolis |
| Hero | Upvote worth 5x base vote and posts get resteemed |
Be already a member(+) Delegate 100SP to Geopolis |
For the status of Member+, every few days the 7 latest posts are assessed. Members who upvoted at least 5 of those 7 posts automatically become a plus member. The roles on discord are not yet automatically updated, but this will be implemented in the future. When in doubt about your membership status you can always contact a moderator on discord who will gladly check it for you.
A very usefull tool to automatically upvote posts written by Geopolis is https://steemauto.com/.
Transparency
If you have any questions or doubts about the project, feel free to contact us on Discord.
Upvoting and resteeming posts of Geopolis allows us to grow which will results in larger upvotes flowing back to the people creating quality posts = you. All rewards from posts by Geopolis will be used by the community to grow.