It is an interesting idea. I don't know if centralized law systems work very well though. They tend to be corrupted.

Can be decentralised, but a central place for dossiers.

BTW, I meant new to me on my blog LOL but I am guessing you knew that.

Yeah I did 😆

What kinds of content do you curate based on someone being "doing good to HIVE." What are some things you look at to determine if someone is a good user?

Ooffff, that isn't easy, but I try.

Below is for my curation with the Curie powers I have. It started out as a community vote power back in 2017, for the music segment. By now, I vote any type of topic, but still go through the music communities and tags most of the days.

• Engagement is important to me: I look at post/comment ratio plus type of comments ('thank you' comments don't count)
• Content topic and opinions: doesn't matter to me, I curate almost any topic
• Post writeup: I look for personality and I like to see users own thoughts, opinions, ideas - I like to see text, writeup
• Styling: I like to see a bit of effort
• Blog channel: I like to see variation in posts (but this isn't an important one for me for curating, however, posts should be unique, ie not much of the post being a copy with some extra added each new one)
• HP: someone who is rock bottom all the time, I skip, mostly (depends on region of the world the user is from)
• Post value (current): Plays a role, but I do vote for posts with higher dollar value when post/user deserves it
• Post value in Blog channel: when constantly high, I tend not to vote, but depends - great posts still get my vote

Added to that, I may vote for users I know they do (good) things behind the scenes, outside of their blog/comments. For these, I may lower my expectations for their posts. Doesn't happen too often, but it happens.

Having said all that, I not always follow all the above. It depends. It can happen I like a post, but it is of 'low' quality, whatever 'quality' objectively may mean. If I have little time, I go more or less safe and go into communities and tags I know very well the users past behaviour.

For long, I wanted to create a post to start a discussion on curation. I never done this. Perhaps the above is a starting point 🙂🎶

The thing is, for each post and user I (can) have an opinion what I like, what I don't like, what I think is good for HIVE. To make general statements, like I did above, is difficult, since variations to what I wrote above may result in a vote still, or a no vote.

I am an idealist, especially for HIVE. I think we need content that has substance in one or the other way. Content that shows the writer made a real effort. I think, that could be our niche.

HIVE could do with any type of content, even the one photo ones, but we are so small as a community. We can't be all over the place. I do think we shall find our niche (until we grow much bigger) in quality, personalised and when possible, thoughtful content (in any emotion, including humour, much humour), where users make a real effort.

For instance, I don't like the microblog services. And even when I would say, ok, why not: We have 3 or 4 of those! WTF? With what? 2k active users or something? Many of them pushing low quality content anyways (I mean normal posts)? Oops, I should keep it all positive, not working towards a rant comment 😆

Having read all of that, what are your thoughts?