South Africans are a colourful and cheerful bunch and I thought what better an image to use for today's post than these little houses in Muizenberg, Cape Town.
Alright, let's move onto the purpose of this post.
The Team South Africa Discord group has been successfully revived. This was the first and most important step that had to be taken. A big thank you to all those members involved! Whether or not you were there from the get go, slotted in yesterday or pop in once in a while just to say "Hi". We appreciate all your support and look forward to moving along from here.
Our work is far from over though... this is only the beginning. We've accomplished some of our goals however here is a further breakdown of what we want to do and accomplish going forward.
Teamsouthafrica Discord Group:
The basic outline of the Discord group is to create a vibrant and supportive community that will assist fellow members to grow their profile on Steemit.
What has been done to improve the Discord group in general?
In order to use the groups post promotion channel members are required to mention a fellow members post they have upvoted before being able to drop their own post links. This ensures that the post promotion channel is not merely being used as a dumping ground for posts and support amongst members is increased.
The general chat has been revived and members have been communicating on a regular basis. This helps to build relationships and increases the community drive and support.
We’ve created a Daily Nominated Post channel whereby one post is selected on a daily basis. This is to highlight an individual post and these posts are selected based on various criteria i.e. post quality, interaction, general support etc.
We’ve opened the group up to select non South African’s. The purpose of this is to increase membership and support. Please note though, that it is being done on a trial basis and could change going forward.
What do we plan on doing within the Discord group going forward?
We are considering opening a channel whereby anyone can drop competition related links. The reason for this is that competitions can be a great way to increase your account value and therefore your VP. The main criteria that will be taken under consideration for this is “What is the potential value to members that might win the competition?” It doesn’t help if this channel is filled with post links that hold a winning value of a few cents. The other consideration is that members who do enter a competition will not be allowed to ask for votes within the group. Therefore, the only allowance will be that a member can reply to a competition link by only mentioning “ENTERED”. Full details will be updated within the group.
We are also considering a channel whereby members may drop hints and tips on how to effectively grow their Steemit accounts. These may be popular tags, effective comments, groups that support specific content, whales that support good comments (by upvoting those) etc. This will not be a Q&A channel so any questions relating to what a fellow member has proposed need to be directed DIRECTLY towards that individual.
A new members welcome room is proposed. Certain members will be encouraged to give a warm welcome to the new potential member and engage the party to find out specific criteria. At the moment it is only admin that engages these members and this could leave someone hanging and potentially have them decide to rather leave the group. We would like to have it be more in line with being welcomed at a restaurant where hostesses warmly greet someone and makes them feel welcome and at home. This will require some settings for non members as well as another channel whereby these new potential members will end up. Teamsouthafrica will be looking for volunteers to assist in becoming hosts/hostesses and a detailed guideline needs to be drawn up on what the relevant procedure will be. We must give credit to The Writer’s Block where we noticed this wonderful idea. Members are welcome to contact me on Discord should they wish to assist or drop a response in the comments section below.
All pinned messages relating to channel usage and policies will be updated, where needed.
We would also like members of the group to make any further suggestions on where we can improve the Discord group. We’re only humans after all and this is a team effort.
What has been done to improve the 
account?
First off, as many of you know now, the voting trail for the Team South Africa account has died off. We tried to see if we could fix it however to no avail. It does seem to kick in randomly however we have no idea how or why. Alright, let's move onto the points.
We have run a few competitions to increase membership and regain support for Team South Africa.
Due to the previous voting bot that died we have started setting up a new voting trail on Steemauto. We’ll be looking at regaining some of the past followers of the
What do we plan on doing with the account going forward?
We would like to increase the overall VP of the Team South Africa account. The two main focus points will be to increase the amount of content created by
The prior will be done by getting more members involved in creating content on behalf of
since
can’t do it alone. The suggestion is that members who have been nominated to create content will receive an incentive for doing so by receiving a certain amount of the post payout. Currently we believe a fair payment would be that the SBD author payout goes towards the member that created the post and the SP remains within the account. To start off with we will be looking at doing 1-2 posts per week using the
The latter will initially be driven by
What is the deadline for all these changes?
We implore our members to remain patient since these changes will take time. We will however gradually instate changes and have decided to set a deadline for all changes to take place within a month of posting this article. We can’t guarantee that this will happen however that is the target that has been set and we will do our utmost to not only achieve it, but exceed it!
Team South Africa would like to thank its members for their ongoing support. If we continue to work together and help each other improve and grow we may well become one of the strongest communities on the platform. Remember, bigger isn't always better. Team South Africa has picked up on some truly talented Steemians, veterans and just all round wonderful people. We look forward to growing and learning together with all of you towards a better future for everyone involved.
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