No, I'm not.... But just list me the 'good' stuff already and I'll vote it up for sure.... .
We need more curators not more Bid-bots
Without your work, and I class it as work as it takes time, this platform will have trouble growing and holding on to users who provide something to enjoy.
Keep going!
For everyone else, time for a change?
So what is 'good' content?
Well I can tell you what isn't good content according to
- Between 27 Reputation and 52 Reputation.
- Posts must be more than 150 minutes old, but less than 24 hours, with maximum $1 pending payout.
- A single author may be submitted only once in 7 days.
- Only original content. Articles, art, poetry, videos, recipes, etc. that appear first on Steemit. (I.e. no reposts of older work) Content must be exceptional and unique.
- No Steemit-related, religious, introduceyourself or political posts.
- English posts only.
Apart from the text 'Content must be exceptional and unique', the rest can be filtered automatically using code.
'Curate like a boss' 1 and 2 - Here you will find information if you wish to take a more programmatical approach.
For example. What about if your reputation is 55 and you've being 'grinding' here for 6 months without any visibility or rewards of note. One 'trending' article at this point could be the make or break - stay or go.
This is why we need as many manual curators as possible. Everyone should curate. And If you don't have the time but you have the SP (and can see past the Bid-bot $$$$$), help boost the rewards to the new authors.
If you delegate SP to me Mr/s Whale, I'll give you my curation rewards each week - deal?
Are you looking up or looking down?
This is a characteristic of the person you are I think.
Are you a taker or a giver? Do you like to receive or give? (that doesn't sound right!) umm...... Are you a 'I will help myself', or a 'I will help you' person?
For financial rewards, you need to 'look up'. This is where the Steem Power is. This is from where you will receive your first $20+ vote from.
At rep 64, with around 5000 SP I see myself in the middle ground.
The struggle between showing my face to the 100k+ SP holders, and giving votes out to the content I enjoy (and sometimes don't even enjoy but I respect the time/effort/quality) is real.
I need to 'look up' to get noticed and not make my efforts financially fruitless, and I need to look down to try to pull people up, keep them engaged, and wanting to stay around a while.
Finding this balance is a headache sometimes, but I'm still here. 0 cash-outs, 14 months in.
What to do?
As a minnow you are only looking up, this is a given. So I suggest to you the following:
- Don't power down (show your commitment)
- Try to fall into curie's guidelines (I hear they'll still curate into reputation 60+ if you really excel)
- Check out what tags
likes to stick a fat vote on
- Write relevant replies to posts - have you ever heard a whale laugh? epic (I presume)
As a whale, orca, adult dolphin I would love to see:
- Support of the curation guilds
- Support of
and the like
- Manual curation and/or, discounted delegation deals to committed and keen members of the community who are trying to make a difference
As a curation guild, I would love to see:
- A reduction in vote weight, so to spread the power around many more authors
- Comments on posts (post vote if you are trying to get ahead of other curation guilds) explaining to the author how the could improve next time
This blog is a follow up to:
and as a general response to:
What is 'good' content?
I can't be arsed curating because I can make more money selling my vote to a bid-bot and don't give a flying fluck about the future of this platform
and because, well I just wanted to write something to say:
HEY, I'm here, I can help, give me a shot!
and
Chin-up Steemians, better days are coming - we can make it so
Cheers
Asher