After spending quite a bit of time curating content I have made a few discoveries that can help content creators and content curators exist together in a more symbiotic way. I have decided to make a list for content creators and one for content curators and hope they will provide a good guide for both to interact in a way that benefits both.
Content Creators list of things to do
- Always respond to legitimate comments
- Always reward comments that show curators have taken the time to read or look at your post
- Ignore posts from spam bots
Content Curators list of things to do
- Always read the article and make a legitimate comment
- Always try and vote for original creations and avoid people that just copy and paste from youtube, etc
- Look for new people by delving deeper down the hot list and new posts to discover more
- Use the search feature to find current content by date
Its important as a content creator to reward those who take the time to comment on your post and help to provide you with more visibility. We want to encourage more interaction so rewarding people with a decent comment reward incentives this even more. You want people to continue to upvote and interact in the comment section so reward those that help you the most and you will continue to get rewarded even more long term.
I have really gained more insight from spending so much time looking at and voting for many others content. It kind of feels like you are looking out for others and not yourself but that is very short sighted. I have managed to get my self votes down to under 13% and want to try and maintain a level at around 1% to 3%
Your best bet as a curator is to find those people that produce good content and at the same time reward nicely for good comments. Things work better when we help those who help us provided the quality of the content remains an important concern.