This document serves as an official followup to the first iteration of the Intrepreneur community guidelines, with the main changes in this post being the omission of immaterial (eg. the quest for that week, literary redundancies etc,) so as to convey only what is relevant for longevity sake.
Intrepreneur.Life is envisioned to be a place where entrepreneurial bloggers can feel supported and appropriately appreciated for their invested time & effort.
However before we continue, let’s revisit what it means to be an ‘entrepreneur’ and by extension what types of material could be considered entrepreneurial here on Intrepreneur.Life.
What is an Entrepreneur?
An Entrepreneur can be described as -
"An individual who creates a new business, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards. The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services, and business/or procedures.
Entrepreneurs play a key role in any economy. These are the people who have the skills and initiative necessary to anticipate current and future needs and bring good new ideas to market. Entrepreneurs who prove to be successful in taking on the risks of a startup are rewarded with profits, fame and continued growth opportunities. Those who fail, suffer losses and become less prevalent in the markets."
Source - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/entrepreneur.asp
The tendency towards innovation, a willingness to learn & a desire to remain relevant in ever-changing markets are all necessary qualities of entrepreneurship.
Furthermore while almost any topic can be written about at an entrepreneurial level there are some major categories that tend to meet the entrepreneurial niche more readily than others,
These include;
(1) blogs about personal businesses, where they document their progress and/or are looking for feedback
Eg. updates on registered business activity
(2) getting crowdfunding for business start-ups & projects
Eg. calls for private tender agreements
(3) running ads for personal businesses, such as promotions & giveaways
Eg. posts about odd-jobs posts, paid dev/coding jobs, farmers markets, festival booths etc.
(4) providing educational material on learning a new skill or trade
Eg. long form publications, e books, crypto news, high quality photography posts etc.
This is by no means an extensive list, however it helps one to identify the types of posts that can easily meet the ‘entrepreneurial’ niche when done well.
Furthermore, such articles and any post written about at an entrepreneurial level (ie authors provides value, consistency & context in their posts,) will have the potential of being heavily rewarded via any of our heftily staked INT team members.
The value of upvotes made by the official Intrepreneur accounts will be determined by the Tier reward model described below.
For the chance to qualify for such rewards simply include the #INT hashtag on your posts and submit it to its corresponding Tier under our #post-promotion channels in Discord.
Tier 1 Posts - 10-20% upvote
Generally 250 words or less, often repeating information or formatting due to it being a regularly made 'update' or 'ad' style post. (eg. advertising a radio show's times with a brief description, also daily giveaways & contests etc.)
Examples -
- https://steemit.com/music/@thexreposts/txr-music-love-contest-round-4-voting-week-begins
- https://www.intrepreneur.life/spinvest/@yonnathang/confirmation-of-membership-to-the-steempower-investments-club
Tier 2 Posts - 20-50% upvote
Generally 250-750 words, may not have firmly established context but still shows initiative, creativity and effort, (eg. recipe posts where the article extensively explains how to prepare a meal with original images & a step by step guide.)
Examples -
- https://www.intrepreneur.life/int/@karamyog/intrepreneur-super-quest-examples-of-good-and-bad-post-on-intrepreneurlife-p75xu1rr
- https://www.intrepreneur.life/int/@yonnathang/the-language-barriers
- https://www.intrepreneur.life/spt/@zaku-spt/110-beta-packs-opening-and-profit-calculation-176-5-return-on-investment
Tier 3 Posts - 50-100%
Usually 750-1000+ words, has a clear direction & context for how the blog supports the individual’s online business through the use of well written and formatted posts.
Examples -
- https://www.intrepreneur.life/self-employment/@denmarkguy/my-to-do-list-has-to-do-lists-on-being-busy-vs-being-successful
- https://steemit.com/steemleo/@samest/the-reality-in-blockchain-facility-management
While the aforementioned covers some of the ways in which bloggers and entrepreneurs may benefit from utilizing our platform based on smartly authored material; the following section will serve address spam accounts & how we hope to alleviate the issue of reward abuse on Intrepreneur.life.
This official INT account has been powered up with 100k INT for the sole purpose of addressing spammy material on the Intrepreneur.life platform. This account is managed by multiple team members who will be routinely checking the INT trending page as well as our #report-spam channel for all posts that do not fall into ANY of the niches described in our aforementioned appreciation model (see fig. 1 for a quick recap.).
Posts that have been determined to be spam and by extension their authors are at risk of a series of disciplinary actions being taken, which is determined in accordance with their relative level/frequency of offensive behavior, as described in the example below;
As shown there are four levels when dealing with spam material on Intrepreneur.life, with permanent muting/blacklisting being reserved as an absolute last resort for authors that refuse to improve upon their content after repeated warnings &/or prior muting.
Finally, just a few last things to note -
Warning Level 2 - Downvotes
Downvotes issued by the 
Should an author/account receive more than 3 downvotes, they will be at risk of being muted from the INT platform.
Warning Level 3 - Muting
As mentioned in fig 2, persons can appeal their muting should they wish to continue to receive INT tokens, however they will be under probation for the duration of a month, within which time should their posts not show any improvement/return producing to spam material after showing improvement, they will be at risk of permanent muting/blacklisting.
Warning Level 4 - Permanent Muting/Blacklisting
Accounts that show a lack of desire to improve on their content after numerous warnings &/or prior muting will be permanently banned from receiving INT rewards.