Steemit Engagement Challenge- Application for Steem4Nigeria Community
Introduction
At Steem4Nigeria, we were delighted to see the update from the @steemitblog about the upcoming engagement challenge and we'd like to make an application for the challenge. In this piece of article, we would walk you through some important details about our community.
Steem4Nigeria's Purpose
Steemit is ever-growing and changing lives giving the privilege to learn, earn and increase their stake on-chain to become more independent with various initiatives set up by the team. New users also troop into Steemit to contribute to the growth of the platform, at the time our community was created, there were only individual communities created by Nigerians for specific purposes.
We created Steem4Nigeria to serve as the official home for Nigerians, that connects and supports people from this part of the world. As such, we can have these ones gather together under one roof and not continue being dispersed, they now have a place of their own. Our intention is to have an official community for Steemians from Nigeria to connect with each other, also, we accommodate our foreign friends too.
The History of our Community
At the moment of putting down this piece, the community is about 62 days old, created on the 12th day of February 2022. We made the first community introduction post on 15/02/2022. From the inception of the creation, the activities of the community have been controlled by the founding members, including moderations.
Our Introduction Post
When the community was about two months ago, we deem it fit to launch recruitment for moderators that would be in charge of commenting and vetting, and in essence, performing curation on articles made in the community and on the 11/04/2022, an announcement of two new moderators in the community was made.
Steem4Nigeria's Admins/MODs
The community has a total number of 6 Admins and these are the founding members of the community who conceived the idea and brought it into reality. A table below would be used to show each member's role and their club status.
| User | Role | Club Status | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|
| @fredquantum | Admin | Club75 | Nigerian |
| @ngoenyi | Admin | Club75 | Nigerian |
| @xkool24 | Admin | Club75 | Nigerian |
| @reminiscence01 | Admin | Club75 | Nigerian |
| @benton3 | Admin | Club5050 | Nigerian |
| @whitestallion | Admin | Club5050 | Nigerian |
In addition, we have just 2 moderators in the community at the time of writing this. Let's see their list below.
| User | Role | Club Status | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|
| @goodybest | MOD | Club75 | Nigerian |
| @lhorgic | MOD | Club5050 | Nigerian |
We intended to bring in moderators from another part of the world into our team, unfortunately, no application was received from any. In the nearest future, we would be looking forward to recruiting more moderators (including our friends of different nationalities). Interaction with articles made in the community is being done by moderators and admins also assist in the process, as such we have full capacity to handle moderation in the community.
Community's Curation Account
The creation of our community was accompanied by the creation of an official account, @steem4nigeria. @steem4nigeria has since its inception been our main curation account with delegations from the founding members. The account has a total of 14,162 SP at the time of writing this article.
The account has been used to support articles published in the community and we use it on other articles outside the community to increase our SP through curation rewards.
Founding Members' Contribution
| User | Delegated SP | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @fredquantum | 1,500 | ||||||||||
| @ngoenyi | 2,300 | ||||||||||
| @xkool24 | 1,500 | ||||||||||
| @reminiscence01 | 2,000 | ||||||||||
| @benton3 | 1,200 | ||||||||||
| @whitestallion | 2,500 |
| Type | Amount |
|---|---|
| Total SP | 14,162 |
| Owned | 1,142 |
| Delegated by Admins | 11,000 |
| Delegated by Others | 2,020 |
We look forward to strengthening our curation account sooner, as such we might set up a curation trail in the nearest future while we would continue encouraging our members to delegate to the curation account.
Account Keys
The posting key to our curation account is shared with all the Admins/MODs for vetting and curation. In addition, @fredquantum and @ngoenyi have the entire curation account keys, as such, no transaction involving the use of keys like active key, initiated without a consensus reached between the two.
Policy of Checking Articles
In the Steem4Nigeria community, we employ a few parameters for checking articles published in the community, this enables visitors/readers/curators to have an overview of an article. Some of the parameters used are as follows;
- Verified User: We check if a user is verified as we go through their achievement posts before verification. This feature is indicated when vetting the articles.
- Steem Exclusive: We ensure that published articles in the community have not been shared anywhere before. As such ensuring their articles are #steemexclusive.
- Plagiarism-Free: Articles published in the community are properly checked for plagiarism and the result is indicated during the check.
- Club Status: We ensure that articles made in the community are checked to see the status of the publisher and the result is indicated.
- Bid-bot: We ensure that our users are not the ones involved in buying votes, this is properly checked and only the ones marked clean are being considered for our support.
How the Community helps to improve Users' Quality
For the time being, one of the ways we help users to improve their quality is by vetting and leaving adequate comments on what they should improve on. We often direct new members to the newcomers' community to learn a few things from achievement tasks.
In the next couple of days, a set of tutorials would be rolled out to help members improve their content quality on Steem and as such, be useful for them off-chain too.
Why We should be chosen
There are a few things that make us more suitable for selection in this edition of the engagement challenge organized by the Steemit team. Let's see some of them below.
- We are new and the number of active members in our community contest with some old communities.
- The entire team members have been dedicated to the growth of the community, as such quality content is shared in the community which would definitely trigger engagements in the upcoming contest.
- Many of our team members are on the verge of leveling up their club status and this would pass a strong message to the community members on the importance of belonging to one and contributing to a healthy Steem ecosystem.
- If given the chance, our community might end up as one of the most successful and strongest communities on Steem. As such, this contest would draw more members and make us more established.
Conclusion
In conclusion, we have been able to present a few things about us in this piece of article, including our commitment to continually support the community members and contribute positively to Steemit development and others discussed therein. At this point, with gladness of the heart, we humbly present our application for the upcoming contest and we hope we'd be selected as one of the lucky communities. Thank you.
Admins Contact Details
- Discord: fredquantum#3622.
- Discord: reminiscence#0353.
Cc:-
@steemitblog
I've been waiting for this and Finally we have it. Am happy we are part of this. It shows how much we want the growth of steemit. I hope this application is given a fair consideration by the organizers as we would do our best to ensure that the purpose of this initiative is not defeated as far as our community is concerned.
#upsteem4Nigeria
Thanks for the addition, @lhorgic. We hope for the best on this.
We deserve to be given the opportunity because as a Nigerian community, we intend to support all Nigerians and make them feel at home. More success to us all
Thanks for your valuable addition, @ngoenyi. We hope for the best on this.
It is great being a part of this community. The first general community for Nigerians and friends as well. Even though, we are just bare 3 months old, we have seen increasing hive of activity in the community even without booming support. That is really commendable.
I strongly believe that if the community wins this contest, we will expecting astronomical increase in the communities activities.
Thanks for this great addition. The community is established and if this opportunity is granted, we believe that would be the beginning of another phase of massive growth on Steem.
Thank you for writing an application on behalf of the community. We are confident that we have what it takes to participate in the contest and hope we get selected at the end of it all. Thanks @fredquantum.
It's my pleasure.
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I’m not from Nigeria but was welcomed with open arms as part of this community.
I wish you the best for your application🤞🏻
We are glad to have you and others as friends in the community. And we appreciate your support on this application. Thank you, @patjewell.
The pleasure is all mine! (•ิ‿•ิ)
This is the first and ever indigenous community for Nigerians, I pray we should be given the opportunity, I wish us success!
Thank you, @goodybest.
Wow, this was a well articulated article from you @fredquantum to all of us at #steem4nigeria community. The community does not only host a large participation in the steemit platform but also serves a larger population therein with a singular font. An opportunity given in this regard is inevitable... Congratulations to all of us ahead!!!
Thanks for your valuable addition on this, @xkool24. We wish for the best and nothing less.
I wish our dearest community best of luck in the selection process.
Thank you, @patience. I appreciate the time spared to leave a comment on this. You are blessed, dear.
Amen
I am from Nigeria and I am proud of this improvement
I would like to delegate 1000 steem to help support the community
Thanks so much for showing interest and believing in the community. At the bottom of the article below, you can find the links to make the delegation. Thank you once again, @nikoyana.
https://steemit.com/hive-147599/@steem4nigeria/the-effects-of-inflation-on-fiat-cryptocurrency-a-way-out-or-or-reward-pool-30-steem