Oh, Lotus Goddesses, we've been working hard this month to reorganise the way we do things! The aim is to make this community more COMMUNITY and less centrally run, meaning the work is divided a lot more fairly and equitably, and the benefits flow on to the community. We're super proud of what we've achieved. These newsletters aim for transparency, and we're adding them to a collection as a record of where we're at and what we're up to. We're kinda flexible, dynamic and adaptable as a tribe, which suits our flow - but as always, it's about the green lotus heart!

Big Burn Time!

It's been a long time since we've had a LOTUS burn. This is when we reduce our supply by issuing tokens to Hive account@null. Traditionally (see our past newsletters) once a month we burnt all the LOTUS curation rewards from Hive account@lotusshares and Hive account@naturalmedicine - we never keep them for ourselves. We also burnt an extra MILLION this month - woo hoo! We're looking at burning even more soon, so keep collecting your tokens!

Beneficiaries

After some discussion with the Lotus team, the current beneficiaries are agreed as such:

LOTUS RECOMMENDS: 50 percent for post compiler, 5 percent for everyone whose post is included in multiples to limit of 2 x lotusmod/curator selections UNLESS only one lotusmod/curator is putting forth curations. For example, if sirenahippie finds 6 posts and no other person has nommed, she would get 6 x 5 = 35 percent.

Oh, and if you want to become a curator, get in touch. As above, you get 5 percent beneficiary for each nom chosen up to 3 noms. (oh, and a nom is shorthand for nomination, btw!)

Ordinary Curations: Beneficiary for curation posts other than lotus recommends. 70% author, 20% lotuspayroll and 10% for one of the featured authors, with preference to delegators.

One off Editorials/Curations: After negotiation with team.

Challenge Rewards are Changing

We're now setting beneficiaries for winners on announcement or challenge posts, instead of an amount decided by curator. This means no one is responsible for the active key or the active key owner is not on demand to fill requests. However, we may still do the occasional HIVE bonus for a challenge if we have some extra funds to spare. We're also teaming with Hive account@holos-lotus so we run parellel challenges of the same nature, thanks to Hive account@miriannalis. If you'd like to help out with a challenge, get in touch - we do offer renumeration for challenge organisers, writers and curators.

'Working' Accounts & Roles

A few changes, and account ownership. Of course, we've had the big powerdown to renumerate the old account owners for the thousands of HIVE and hours they'd put in to setting up and running www.naturalmedicine.io and the community. All the HIVE earnt since about 2 months ago is going into the community account, however. Both ex leaders are still working to hand over the community and help with organisation until it they are no longer needed, with a view to possibly taking minor or more equal roles with the rest of the community. The idea is to ensure that the curators and others working for the community are paid fairly, with all funds being used for the community and it's delegators. Funds are also going in part to the people who have worked the hardest in keeping the community alive and nourished over the past year. They'll be delegating back into the account after taking a stipend for their efforts.

@Lotuspayroll Account

This account is used for outgoings to pay for

a) Nitrous front end expenses
b) Payment of HIVE BUZZ badges.
c) Possible extra challenge bonuses
d) Possible monthly or quarterly bonuses for curators

The keys will be jointly owned by Hive account@trucklife-family and Hive account@minismallholding

@NaturalMedicine

Keys will be owned by Hive account@trucklife-family

It is the main upvoting account for the community, and funds earnt are used for upvotes - these will be mainly from curation. Delegators should delegate to this account.

Hive account@lotusshares

This has an autovoter and delegators will receive autovotes on any #naturalmedicine posts they write. Keys will be jointly owned by Hive account@trucklife-family and Hive account@minismallholding.

Rewards for Delegators

All delegators receive a 20 Percent upvote on any tagged #naturalmedicine or #hive-120078 posts, over 250 words. Delegations are organised once a week or so by Hive account@drrune, so be patient if you've delegated and your vote hasn't quite made it yet. Remember the upvote comes from Hive account@lotusshares - all newsletters written by Hive account@riverflows get 50 percent for Hive account@lotusshares and the collections posts get 75 percent powered up for the Hive account@lotusshares delegators fund!

Mental Health Awareness Badges

We'll be rewarding these once a week, so if you haven't recieved your HIVE BUZZ stars yet for your badge (up to 5 are available), simply use the #mentalhealthawareness tag in the community and if Hive account@drrune loves your work, a beautiful badge star will be coming your way!

Other goings on....

We're still doing the Plant Power challenge (thanks to Hive account@justinparke at the helm), Hive account@riverflows is doing her #gardenjournal for August so you can use the #naturalmedicine tag for that, and we're thrilled to have OCD curators on our team looking out for your amazing content, we're creating COLLECTIONS so you can find back issues of your favourite editorials super easily (with rewards being powered up for delegators). Go Lotus Tribe!

Any questions, do drop into our Discord or ask any of our curators for clarification.

Earn Instantly For Writing Natural Health Content

^{Earn LOTUS and HIVE rewards for sharing your natural health content on www.naturalmedicine.io. If you don't already have a HIVE account, you can sign up for FREE here. We support writers sharing about herbalism, TCM, yoga, meditation, vegan and other healthy diets, as well as earth centred practices such as foraging, permaculture and biodynamics - read more about us here!}

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