September has closed itself upon us, welcoming the new month of October. We are continuing our program of rewarding our members and participants as outlined here. October 13th was the day that these and other monthly rewards have been sent out. Rewards for posts have already been sent out throughout the duration of the month.
We’ve optimized our count of comments, threads, and posts, thanks to the diligent work of 
We managed to get a little bit of info on referrals to the community this time – if you referred anyone to this community, or were referred by someone, please let me know asap!
The Rewards Sent Out on October 13th
Static Monthly HSBI Rewards
Curation Trail (1 for every month on the curation trail):
Mental Health Ambassadors (5 for each day of the week covering the role, plus HBD per contribution to the Mental Health Initiative):
Community Curation + Rewards Management – 65 HSBI + 3000 CCD
Comment curation (10 HSBI per month)
Deferred this month
Back-up Post & Comment Curator (5 HSBI per month + Coverage, as needed)
Deferred this month
Promotional Compliment Writer (10 HSBI per month)
Community Data for Posts + Comments + Threads (10 HSBI apiece, per month) + Data Interpretation (10 HSBI per month)
Nominators (10 HSBI each)
Threads Curator (20 HSBI + 50 LP)
HSBI deferred this month (50 LP to 
Backup Threads Curator (5 HSBI + equivalent curator pay if called)
Deferred this month
NEOXAG Sender (10 HSBI + 5000 NEOXAG)
Fitness Friday Writer (10 HSBI)
Total = 271 HSBI + 50 LP + 3000 CCD + 5000 NEOXAG + 7.024 HBD
Rewards for Comments – 1 HSBI per 10 comments, generously rounded up to the nearest 10
Note: repetitive comments and bot-command only comments were rewarded 1 HSBI in total; for users with a combination of these and regular/unique comments, additional HSBI were rewarded as above.
Total = 98 HSBI
Rewards for Threads – 1 HSBI per 10 comments, generously rounded up to the nearest 10-
Note: repetitive Threads and bot-command only comments were not rewarded; for users with a combination of these and regular/unique comments, HSBI were rewarded as above.
Total = 505 HSBI
Referrals to the community based on members who joined
Better than last month, but we certainly have more referrals than this, and I’m going to elicit
Total = 8 HSBI
Last, but not least, all inaugural members who joined as of March 1st, 2024 were each awarded 1 HSBI
Total = 518 HSBI
GRAND TOTAL = 1400 HSBI + 7.024 HBD + 50 LP + 3000 CCD + 5000 NEOXAG
Screenshots of HSBI Rewards
This time, we used 
Our inaugural members remained steady at 518 based on our analysis, including some individuals with more than 1 account. Using Peakd is making our screenshots more efficient, so I’ll be using this frontend to capture the sent HSBI from now on!
This month, we had a huge increase in engagement with Threads, but strange circumstances with a couple of the biggest users on Threads caused some changes in our count and rewards! Hopefully this month we’re going to have a fresh start and count things properly. We’ve also had a notable decrease in comments, and I’m going to continue to work to increase these, including specifically marketing our rewards for comments. I always want to find ways to ensure the posts created within FC are getting human engagement and am always open to further suggestions.
Check if You’ve Been Rewarded Correctly!
We’re all human here, and mistakes can happen. That’s why it’s best to double-check that you’ve been rewarded as promised.
NOTE: if HSBI’s website is ever down, check your total HSBI status using the !sbistatus command in the comments.
The best way to check whether you received the rewards that you were due is to check up HSBI’s website and input your username. You’ll go here, enter your username, then click on transaction history, and finally on sponsored HSBI. Look for hive-140084 under “sponsor.”
If I missed out sending you on any rewards, please let me know promptly so that I can correct it. It takes up to a day to process what I sent out, so if you don’t see it by now, I’ll send whatever you let me know is missing.
Within a few days, we’re going to post our contest for the Post of the Month, Compliment of the Month, and Non-Compliment Comment of the Month. This time, we’ll have 2 winners for our Threads Engagement Contest because we stayed in the top 2 tags with #freecompliments throughout all of August – so a post will be coming up!
Outside of contests/rewards, we’re going to keep improving our mental health initiative and provide further incentives, as well as continue working on the financial aspect of the community. I’m going to continue offering new jobs, incorporating projects/tokens, and optimizing our reward system so that, in the long run, we’ll run as smooth as butter. Exciting stuff, if I may say so myself!
Conclusion
We’ve completed HSBI Unit payouts for August, and continue to build our curation power and other initiatives. The community is growing wonderfully, and the foundations for its functionality have already been set in concrete. Once Hive as a whole has a resurgence of active membership, we’re going to explode in activity, earn lucratively, and most importantly: spread joy far and wide!
Don’t forget that you have the option to add hive-140084 as a 5% or 10% beneficiary to your post in order to support the community’s growth. We also give out a few promotions for posts per day!
Have I captured all of the rewards correctly? How else can we increase engagement within the community?
I would love to hear any and all opinions about these topics from everyone who is currently a member of FreeCompliments, since you’re all inaugural members! Anyone else who finds this page is also very welcome to voice their opinion. We’re all about free speech, and everyone’s experience has value.
More posts with further ideas incoming soon!
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Follow our curation trail and earn 1 HSBI per month!
Refer people to the community and earn 2 HSBI per person who joins, plus a chance at a bigger prize!
Here’s a permanent invite link to the FreeCompliments Discord!
