Application for Community Curator for the Month of May 2024

Hello, my dear @steemitblog,

This is @dove11 from India.

I hereby apply for the post of Steemcurator for the month of May 2024 in response to applications invited by your good self for May on April 17th, 2024.

I hereby reintroduce myself.

I joined the Steemit platform on May 14, 2022, as I had nothing much to do due to my laid-off situation from an active job for over two years during COVID-19. I have been in a project job for the last six months, posted in Canberra, looking after my company's interest in the local market.

I have mentioned in my earlier application this will be my last project with this company, and then I will settle in India or Australia. I have a passion for writing based on my travels and photographs.

As I mentioned in my last application, I joined this website in May 2022 and have been posting regularly since then. I have experience on various Indian and international websites as a writer, editor, and moderator until 2013 so I am feeling comfortable and having a nice experience working on this website.

In my last four tenures as a curator, I didn't think the job of a community curator was easy, and my experience confirms that fact. I try to go to as many posts as possible before voting for a worthy user. I try my best to abide by the rules and give my best to support the users, irrespective of their rank and the communities or countries they belong to.

As a community curator I came across several users who were neglected otherwise so keeping them in mind I would like to reapply to join one of the teams for May 2024. I feel that my experience as a community curator will further improve my motive and improve the process of curation. I have been working with seasoned Steem Curators for the last four terms and every term gives me an extra opportunity to become better by learning from their experiences.

As a rule, I check to see if the users follow the set norms and rules before voting for them. My last experience proved that the role of a community curator is time-consuming and requires a lot of work to keep an eye on worthy users, and that's one of the reasons I have decided to offer my services for this responsibility once again.

Here is a little about me:

I have completed my Newcomers' Community Achievement 5.1 (Verified/2022). I completed most of these tasks as soon as I joined this site, as the member who introduced me suggested so that I understood the Steemit platform and all the rules and regulations.

I am a verified member of more than 40 different communities and contribute as and when I find an interesting topic in them.

Details of positions of responsibility I have held on Steem

Moderator for Traveling Steem (Travel Mod)
Curator Team-2 for October 2023.
Curator Team-2 for February 2024.
Curator Team-2 for March 2024.
Curator Team-2 for April 2024
Cofounder Dream Steem Community
Steem Representative (Appointed recently)

My professional expertise:

I am a qualified mechanical engineer and have a PG Diploma in Management and special alloys welding technology. I last worked as a DGM (marketing) before I took over project jobs in BRO, the Indian Army's Border Road Organization, on a contract basis, and later I took project work overseas as an expert in my field in March 2011.

I am no longer working as a regular employee in the corporate world, but I still work and manage projects on a retainer basis. Currently, I am working in Australia, based in Canberra, looking after the network management, maintenance, and service of our equipment for an India-based equipment manufacturing company.

I have completed a short-term online blogging and vlogging course from Udemy, an online education platform. I have a diploma in special alloy welding technology.

I worked as an editor and moderator on various websites until 2013, but most of those sites have been closed now due to Google's earning algorithm.

I am conversant with plagiarism checking, and lately, I have become familiar with ChatGPT and how it works. I have been organizing contests in various Steemit communities for a long time.

Country I live in and languages I can read fluently:

My permanent residence is 30 kilometers away from the city of Delhi in the National Capital Region of India, but I am living in Canberra, Australia, right now. I can speak several Indian languages, including Punjabi and Urdu, and have working knowledge of several other languages because I have traveled extensively in almost every part of my country during my marketing job, but I can only read and write English and Hindi fluently.

I have written in multiple languages on this website, including English, Hindi, and Spanish, but my Spanish writing is only a translation job that I do through DeepL or Google Translate, which I originally wrote in English. Let me make it clear that I face no problem reading different languages because I have set my browser to translate different languages.

My key stats about my own SP, CSI, reputation, and delegations

My reputation is 75.06 and I have over 23,500 SP of my own, which have mostly come through my rewards. My voting CSI remains over 15, but if it ever goes down, I immediately take action to maintain it.

Please note that if you see a small outage of Steem from my wallet, I have used it as a reward for my contestants.

I have delegated a small part of my SP to various communities, but I have enough SP to vote for worthy users.

Any subject you particularly enjoy curating

I have nothing special in mind, but I prefer literature, fiction, and articles about management, although I would love to see more about technology, metals, and metallurgy. Current affairs is one of my favorite topics, besides stories in different niches.

I would love to read more about lifestyle, health, and contests. By the way, I had very little interest in the diary section, but I now love to write and read creative diaries with a theme, so I am concentrating on diary posts. However, I aim to support the best posts and not the big names, whatever country or community they come from.

I am open to whatever team I am inducted into, including the newcomers' community, because that will give me a chance to support worthy newcomers with talent.

The minimum team size I would be willing to serve

I have no choice in that since I know that the current trend is four members per team, and I am with the rules set by the site management. So I have no choice whatsoever in this matter.

Finally, I can assure the management that if I am given this opportunity, I will carry out my work with all my might and responsibility and do the job with my best efforts and honesty.

Thank you,

My best regards

@dove11

Canberra, 10.25 p.m.
April 20th, 2024