RE: Final Curatorial Report of July of Steemgrowth by Team Cosmopolitan
Greetings friend. Thank you for coming up with your concern, it's a sign that you have read the report carefully. As for your concern, I already had a chat with a moderator of your community. We don't ignore posts which have been posted recently, only those which had been posted atleast 5-6 hours ago and still had no comments on it.
You have to understand that engagement is a very important factor on steemit. We encourage users to engage on each others' posts so that the essence of working on this platform is not lost. We don't have a personal issue against anyone. But still, I understand your concern regarding the difference in timezone. For that we have decided that to wait for a bit more to check if there are any comments on the post. Also, I had a chat with your moderator on which she told me that she'll try not to post in the late hours at night. Also, I assure you we will try to be as flexible as we can but please keep this in mind for the month of August we'll be curating only those posts that have at least one comment on it
I hope your concern has been resolved. If you have any further questions you're always welcome.
Regards
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.
Will this rule actually work out? I thought that for a post to be curated, it most follow 4 main rules which are steemexclusive, club status, bot free and plagiarism free.... So bringing in engagement for a post to have atleast 2 comments before your team will curate will extremely be very difficult because I don't think people will adhere to this
I have been curating with sc05 and if we bring in this rule in our team, I most say that at the end of the day, we will definitely curate little or no posts
Again, what if you are Curating and you come to a point where a user is just from publishing his/her content, will you skipp it because it doesn't have comments?? And If you Skipp it whereas it's a quality article, won't that discourage the user??
However, this Is a nice suggestion by your team, we only hope users can adhere to this rules by encouraging others to comment on their post
It'll if it's implemented strictly and we'll make sure it is.
Not two. One. One comment. Is it too much to ask? Tell me haven't you come across posts during your Curation period that have been written brilliantly but have no comments on it? What's the use of that blog when no one's reading it? We want to motivate users to engage on each others' posts so that the essence of blogging is not left out. Even if we skip a post, and that post gets a comment on it, it'll be curated by us. You can see such examples of curation today.
I hope the admins and moderators read this rule by Team Cosmopolitan and motivate their community members to adhere to it.
Many articles are great but tend to remain in the lower region which reduces their visibility.
Do you know that upvoting genuine content via community judgment takes them from the bottom and increases their visibility? Hence, they are more visible as such getting the attention of other users to read and learn from them.
Without upvote, I'm afraid such articles would remain in that region for long and even till expiry, that's some kind of demoralizing an author.
We can't compare different users' fanbase to each other, it would only pass across another message entirely.
That’s true. There are a lot of users on the platform who have gained recognition only after their posts have been curated by sC01 for a long time.
From @frequantum’s view I think upvoting a quality content will actually help it to become more popular and more people will engage with it.
The rule of people having to comment on your posts will only make it harder for some people to write under your theme.