SteemTrail – FOOD Category Guidelines and Curating Team

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So, food is pretty popular these days. People love eating it, taking pictures of it, telling other people what or how to eat, and they even share their most secret recipes with complete strangers on the internet. It’s one of the most popular categories on Steemit as well. There are lots of excellent food posts created by our users every day and we’re here to find them, to engage with them, to assist new users and help raise the overall quality of posts, and to grow the Food community on this platform!

The Hive account@food-trail team will be doing much more than just voting for your food posts. We are here to help you if you need it and we want to make the Food category one of the best communities for food-lovers on the internet!

The Hive account@food-trail Curating Team

The Hive account@food-trail team is small right now, so if you’d like to participate in the project for the Food category, please let us know! Like many users on Steemit, we love food and have experienced it in different locations and cultures. We’ve even tried different diets over the years and have plenty of recipes and tips ourselves. If you’d like to know more about our curators, visit their blogs or reach out to them on their posts or in RocketChat. The following data about our curation team is rounded and current as of October 21, 2016.

User	Reputation	Steem Power
Hive account@ats-david	61	1248
Hive account@richardcrill	60	969
Hive account@steemitrecipes	54	162

The Hive account@food-trail Guidelines for Posting

Please review these guidelines for the Food category. Following these guidelines when posting will greatly improve your chances of being noticed and curated by Hive account@food-trail and it will also help improve the quality of your posts, which is the most important part of blogging! This will further improve your chances of being noticed by other curation guilds as well, including being recommended for curation by the Hive account@steemtrail account. You are not required to do the following and there are no penalties for not doing so. These are only guidelines set by the team for our own curation.

These are the things we will be looking for in your posts that will help you to the front of the curating line:

Original Content – We appreciate enthusiasm about food and drinks and wanting to share the things you eat or find around the internet. More than that, we would like to see original writing, images, and personal touches in your posts. Your knowledge, experiences, photos, or tips will add content that readers will desire and value. We don’t need a wall of photos, but making a post your own is certainly very important to us. We want to see diversity of topics and personality. Bring something unique to the table and you’ll be sure to get our attention!

Accurate Tags – If your post is primarily about food, then please tag it accordingly by using “food” as your primary tag. This will help sort the posts that we curate for the Food category. Posts that are not properly tagged will have a lower chance of receiving upvotes from the Hive account@food-trail account. But don’t worry! We will help guide you and offer our assistance along the way.

Some sample tags for the food category are:

food
drinks
restaurants
dining
baking
recipes
vegan
vegetarian
sushi
tacos

Remember to use the “food” tag as your primary tag, then use the others as they apply.

Proper Citations – Content that is copied or plagiarized will not be eligible for curation. If you’re using images, quotes, or copied information from another source, cite those sources accordingly. If you use your own imagery, please let us know. It will not only make our job as curators easier, but it will also let your readers know that the images are original – adding a personal touch that may better connect you with your readers and followers.

Formatting – Posts that take advantage of Markdown and HTML to increase personalization and style will be more noticeable, not only to us as curators, but for readers in general. Formatted posts with good and relevant titles and headers will receive more consideration than others that have not been formatted. This is important for search engine optimization (SEO), but there is a balance to be reached and there are many options available to customize the formatting, so it may take some time to figure out what works best for you. Again – we will offer guidance for this, if needed. You can also visit the #steemprentice channel at https://steemit.chat for additional assistance with this. They have a very helpful team and there is a lot of information for new and old users alike pinned in that channel.

Good Writing – We really don’t want to nitpick spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation errors, but a well-written post is important for readers. Multiple spelling and grammatical errors can diminish the perceived value of a post. Give your posts a read before publishing them and correct any mistakes you find. Then give it another read! Your followers will appreciate the effort – and so will your curators here. Mistake-free posts will certainly help with our selection process.

Join Our Curating Trail!

If you love the Food category and enjoy posting, sharing, commenting, and voting, please consider joining our curation trail. The number of followers on the trail will impact the amount of rewards for our selected and curated posts. If you want to support our community initiative, following this trail will help accomplish our goals – and also earn you additional Steem Power rewards. This option would be especially ideal for those users who do not currently reach the daily 40-vote target.

The Hive account@food-trail account can be followed by obtaining an invitation code for Streemian.com and joining our trail there. If you are interested in joining this trail, please let us know in the comments.

Updates on Progress, Changes, Curating, and Contests

We will publish a weekly post about our curating statistics and related information. Any changes to our curating habits and targets will be posted as necessary to keep the community informed. The rewards from our information and update posts will be used for increasing the Steem Power of the Hive account@food-trail account and for covering costs of development and the curating teams.

We will also be planning contests and other community initiatives and engagements in the future. If you have any suggestions for this, please let us know in the comments below.

Encourage People to Join Our Food Community!

Bringing new users to the platform is one of the objectives for the Hive account@steemtrail project. If this is one of your favorite topics or categories, then tell people about it! If you know anyone who wants to share their food knowledge and experience, please encourage them to join us and participate in the Food community. They don’t need to know everything about Steemit to enjoy themselves here. We want to tailor this community for enthusiastic recipe-seekers, restaurant patrons, cultural eaters, chefs and bakers, a variety of dieters, and food lovers in general.

We want our existing users to feel the same way. Tell us about your favorite foods or tips for cooking. Engage with us. Support others in the category. Join our curation trail. When you join us, you’ll know that 100% of our efforts will be focused on the Food category and topics you love. You will ultimately shape the future of Hive account@food-trail and the Food community on Steemit! Bring your friends, your family, and bloggers that might enjoy reading and posting, and may want to contribute to what we’re trying to accomplish!

If you have any questions or feedback, please leave us a comment. Curation for Hive account@food-trail has now officially begun!

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