RE: Final Curatorial Report of July of Steemgrowth by Team Cosmopolitan
I don't think the idea of waiting for comments on an article before curating them is great, in that case, many articles would escape a curator's voting window and at the end of it all, your team would only have a little article to curate which tends to unused resources. This is not ideal.
In addition, this will only promote corruption when we already have users who handle 1, 2, 3, and more accounts, yeah they exist and one can easily tell when you see the articles written by them. Enforcing engagements on an article outside the engagement challenge would only lead to more corruption, they would device many ways to cheat the system like bringing up ghost accounts (for commenting) and so on.
I think your team needs to rethink your decision on engagement rules here, @huzaifanaveed1.
You have hit the nail on the head... Bringing in engagement before up-voting will only help promote cheating to the system because I think so many users will try by all means to bring ghost accounts to comment on their articles
Besides that, So many quality articles will always expire without support since it might lack comments under. And when this is done, it will discourage alot of users and demotivate them..
Again, what of people posting on their blogs? I have come across such articles and they are always of good quality.. So that means if the person don't receive a comment, his/her post will be ignored simply because of that which is very bad
In all, I think checking a post for steemexclusive, club status, bot free and plagiarism free are enough rules for an article to receive support
Cc @huzaifanaveed1
Exactly my point. Thanks for adding up to this.
Thank you @fredquantum for your time and your suggestion. Up till now the curation has been going on smoothly and we haven't curated less posts compared to the posts we curated before this rule. The resources are being utilized completely as even if a post is skipped due to no comments on it, it's sent on our discord channel and it gets curated by the next team member if it recieves a comment on it.
Yes I understand your concern and it's true that account farming is a menace on this platform. People are doing it openly and people have been doing it secretly as well but as I told my team members, one step at a time. Furthermore we're not curating post with useless comments on it such as 'great post' etc. I'm sure you know that users here want to get votes. It's a natural psyche of anyone using steemit. So even if for a week, wo curate, lets say, 10 posts less than the previous week, we'll see users starting to get comment as they'll know that they won't be recieving any sort of support from @steemcurator07.