For Those Who Do Not Receive Support From Steemcurator
A little Introduction
You may have noticed that the Steemit team recently announced the winning teams that will be curating the content in February using steemcurator04-08 accounts. I am part of one of the winning teams. In our team, we agreed that each of the participants will be engaged in curation for one day. My day is Saturday. Since I didn't know if I would be able to access my SC account today, I decided to find a few posts that were worth supporting just in case.
You may have noticed that the Steemit team recently announced the winning teams that will be curating the content in February using steemcurator04-08 accounts. I am part of one of the winning teams. In our team, we agreed that each of the participants will be engaged in curation for one day. My day is Saturday. Since I didn't know if I would be able to access my SC account today, I decided to find a few posts that were worth supporting just in case.
The Most Popular Question
If you have ever reviewed the results of steemcurator01 with https://steemworld.org/, you have seen numerous comments asking "Why don't you support me?" Similarly, I, wandering through various posts, often come across comments with complaints that steemcurator supports only a certain circle of authors, ignoring others.
Often the authors do not follow the basic rules, and then are surprised by the lack of support.
My Observations
In preparation for a possible job as a curator, I looked for posts that I could support. My subject Lifestyle. I started browsing the latest posts by tag #travel, #sport, #garden, and more.
First, I found a great post. I checked it for plagiarism, the text was unique. The author used the tag # club5050, I checked, it turned out that in fact the author withdraw 100% of the money earned on cryptocurrency exchanges.
I continued my search. The next two great posts, despite the #steemexclusive tag, were published on Hive.
Then I came across a few posts whose authors use bid bots. Such posts are also not supported by steemcurator.
Then there were posts that consisted of one or more photos of chickens, grass, roads, buckets (!) and other not very interesting things, posts that consisted of a few words, posts whose authors spent no more than two minutes to create them.
I looked through 32 posts, checked them for plagiarism and #club5050, but did not find any worthy support. It was a shock to me. Then I realized how difficult the work of a steemcurator is.
Then I changed my approach. I chose two posts from our community because most of the authors here are already well known to me. Then I visited the Steem-Travelers community. It is very convenient to choose posts there, because the moderators check them for uniqueness and belonging to # club5050, and the test results are written in the comments. Then I visited the community of Steem Skillshare, Steemit-Garden, etc. Finally, after spending another three hours, I found 8 posts that I would support if I had access to the steemcurator account.
Checklist
So, before you flood the steemcuratot with questions, "Why don't I get support", check yourself:
- Did I make an effort to create a post?
- Did I try to convey something to the reader (whether it is a text or a photo)?
- Did I try to write a good post?
- Isn't my post plagiarized?
If you have done all this, you already have a chance to get support from steemcurator. But to increase these chances, we continue to test ourselves:
- Am I in # club5050 or higher?
- Do I publish my post only on Steemit?
- Did I use the #club and #steemexclusive tags?
If you have successfully passed this checklist, then you can be sure that you deserve the support of steemcurator. Sooner or later you will be noticed.
Yes, I imagine it's a very challenging task... and — in a way — it also explains why we often get "stuck" in following and supporting the same smallish group of people we have become familiar with, and whom we know we can rely on to produce authentic original content.
I think about how few new people I started supporting in 2021, and I almost feel ashamed... but at the same time, this is not my job, so I don't often have the time to sift through 30 posts to find a "worthy" one.
It's a bit of a dilemma, isn't it?
You are absolutely right. I constantly support one group of authors. I like what they do, and I'm sure it's original content.
Now I had to get out of the comfort zone, and it's quite difficult for me. I am sure that in time I will learn to quickly distinguish quality content from garbage.
Curation of quality content is a difficult task. I thought I could join the Curation Trail and have no problems, but I need my voting power to support the posts I include in my magazine. But in my opinion Curation Trail is the best solution if you do not have time to search for quality posts.
Good evening @denmarkguy I am quite lucky to be one of the Steemians you started supporting in 2021 and you still do. It is really encouraging for an inexperienced writer like myself to learn from the more independent dolphins here and follow their lead. I love reading your posts and they always make me think and get carried away. Looking at @o1eh's label a dolphin emoji goes quite well with a top commenter's crown so I dream big and I aim high. Cheers and have a lovely weekend.
Welcome to the world of bigger curation 😀
Good luck and have fun.
Thanks! I will do my best!
Fortunately, I have enough time to choose posts during the week and support them on Saturday.
wow this is really really amazing
That's exactly the correct way to do your "job"! Thank you!
Thanks! I am proud that a writer who creates quality content shares my opinion.
Thank you for a very nice post😇. I hope everyone who works hard gets rewarded🙏🏻 However, as you said, it must be difficult to find those who are truly honest and abide by the rules among so many posts.😅
I just still lack practice. I think I will learn to quickly find quality content.
Sounds good, even though there may have been problems at first, but your heart attitude seems to be the right one and I personally always find that most important by someone who has taken on such a task.
Thank you, with such support I want to do everything right.
wow.. what a difficult Job! That is such a lot of things to look through. I must say I also keep reading the same publishers because I get fond of their streem of thought or information and they feel like real people. I sometimes decide to check outside of My Friends and I get lost down a rabbit hole of contents I can´t be sure about or that I don´t connect to. It´s a bit like exploring music or books. I think I also get to new content thought friends who introduce me to it or by reference. I´m very impressed by all the effort that curators do here! I send out a big thank you. It´s a way to get to new content.
Thank you very much!
You are right, it is thanks to existing friends that I make new ones. When someone resteem a post and I like it, I start following the new author. I remember that you gave me some new friends, such as jmkartworks, which you wrote about. Thanks to the-gorilla I follow chriddi. And there are many such cases. That's how I get the content I like.
I now visit a lot of other communities. Some upset me completely. So far, I did not think that our platform is full of plagiarism, hastily made low-quality posts, spam, etc.
But in a few days I have significantly improved my skills in finding good posts. Now it doesn't take me that long. It gives me hope that I will complete my task successfully :)
Your post brought a smile to my face - I've not replied to your other comment yet but I will.
Your discovery is part of the reason I asked the question (in my other comment) - in creating the "tool" I've created, I visited a lot of communities and very few were actually a community at all - just a "play thing" for an admin or moderator to promote themselves (hence the nearly 100 pinned posts that I saw in one community - which incidentally, will totally fuck up my plan of a carousel for pinned posts).
I hope (and expect) the other curators to show the same diligence as you are in this task - also demonstrating why you're totally deserving of both the responsibility and the support that you receive from the Steem Team 👍🏼
I don't seem to quite understand your question. I thought you meant that there is no communication between communities, although there is.
Of course you are right. What is the StockPhotos community for? With almost 13,000 subscribers, there is one administrator and one moderator. Do they support members of their community? Do they hold contests? Do they have a curation account? Do they have a Curation Trail? Or maybe there are pinned posts with rules and requirements?
Now I visit a lot of communities, I see this picture often. I've seen a community where only the administrator is active and his posts are only supported by bid bots. Why do such communities exist?
Thank you very much for such words. I am a little worried that I may not succeed in this mission, but I will at least try to do everything right😀.
I think the question was around how much of Steemit you'd looked at because I'd only recently increased looking outside of the World Of Xpilar community and was generally disappointed by most of what I saw.
There are some communities that are just a scam, created to be a scam with the sole purpose of scamming. In some cases, they're created so that the scammer in question can keep track of all of the accounts they've created so that on the face of it they're supporting multiple users but are in fact just supporting themselves. I can't imagine that the system will change to curb such behaviour but you can always hope.
I've sometimes thought that Steem is a cryptocurrency like many others in that it needs to be mined. In this case, it's mined through a blogging interface where there are many methods to how it's done.
Before I got stuck in the WORLD OF XPILAR community I wandered through different communities. But then I didn't understand where fraud was and where blogging was. Then I wrote and read for a long time exclusively within the WORLD OF XPILAR. Only now, having become a curator, I wander around different communities every day.
The most horrible was my first day of wandering. Then I panicked that I would not find quality posts and would support 2-3 communities, so I will be accused of bias. There is so much garbage on this platform. In addition to fraud, there are millions of posts that are worthless.
That's right. I came across a cryptocurrency that can be earned by listening to the radio. There is also a game where you have virtual miners and earn cryptocurrency. But everywhere the principle is the same, there is a pool of rewards, and it is divided among all participants in proportion to their power.
Scammers take away part of the pool, and then bloggers earn less. Bloggers are leaving the platform and the share of scammers is growing. This is reflected in the quality of posts, garbage begins to predominate. This in turn discourages readers and new authors. This is the beginning of the end of the platform.
The problem is that the Steemit team wants to make the platform decentralized again. Therefore, the community itself needs to fight fraud. But the community does not yet have such resources.
I do wonder if we've already reached (and passed) the tipping point where the number of scammers outweighs the number of genuine users - there are certainly more accounts intent on scamming in some way than there appear to be writing genuine content. The power that ac-cheetah has is a huge step in improving things.
I've also been thinking about the difficult task that you've faced - especially with people using the club5050 or club100 tags when they're withdrawing all of their power.
I'm thinking that another bit of automation is on the cards where I filter the posts by steemexclusive and club100 tags and sort them by the length of the post - and then look at the account's transfers and if they have any going out, they're removed from the list. Similarly if they have the krsuccess hashtag or are upvoted by UpVu, Tipu or one of the other well known voting bots. This would leave you with posts that have presumably taken a lot of effort to write and have potentially been overlooked - especially if I also remove posts that have received booming or steemcurator votes already. Perhaps also only highlighting posts that have received fewer than (let's say) 10 upvotes. I'll have a bit more of a think and see what API steemchiller provides but I could potentially automate a daily list for specific tags... 🤔
I admire the capabilities of programmers. You are here like a fish in water. You can work miracles. Such automation would definitely make life easier for everyone.
Regarding the number of fraudsters. In my opinion, they outnumber bloggers in number and power. I see no reason why this should change. The biggest problem is the bid bots that fund them.
Today I suffered a bit from automation. About two weeks ago I joined the Downvote Trail, it turned out that when my Downvote power reaches 0 then my voting power is used. Today I saw that 15% of my voting power was gone.
I'm getting there 🙂 I need to work out all of the bidbots and exchanges and the users who upvote if you've delegated to them - like justyy. Having looked into this before, do you have a list saved anywhere of the voters I should be adding to the "ignore" list?
Yes, I learnt that lesson with endingplagiarism. I think you should be able to set a limit for their bot to stop - mine's something like 15% or 20%.
I have a list, but I'm sure it's not exhaustive:
upvu
tipu
upmewhale
shy-fox
justyy
sct.krwp
coin-doubler
robiniaswap
nutbox.mine
boomerang
bot-api
successgr.with
gotogether
templar-kr
heroism
support-kr
steemvote
bidvote
xiguang
I've almost finished the code 🙂 What's the time period for club100 to be true? Is it no withdrawals within the past 3 months?
😮 Yes, three months.
I can totally relate to your situation at the moment. When I got to know that my team has won for the category, Life and Humanity, I also checked thediarygame tag for the first time to have an idea. It was overwhelming to see the number of diaries posted in an hour. Since then I had been figuring out how to do this task in an effective manner. I want to curate maximum quality posts but there are limitations. I have to choose between giving small votes to cover maximum authors or significant votes to few authors.
Even when my one post goes un voted or I get a small vote, I start panicking and think what did I do wrong that sc01 ignored my post.
For the first time, I put myself in sc01's shoes and I felt for them. God knows what will happen when the actual curation will start. 😁
Personally, I will vote with such power that my vote brings the author at least one dollar. Further power reduction simply downplays the importance of the steemcurator's vote. But this is my opinion and it may be wrong.
😂 You made me smile.
By the way, I also try to analyze which of my posts receive more support and which less. In order not to write on topics that are of no interest to anyone.
I am still convinced that these changes are for the better.
I wish you success in what you do, it is not an easy task. The questions asked were also very correct and appropriate. I've been asking myself these questions for a long time. I also know the answers. and I have just begun to reap the results of my labor. You have described it very accurately. It is a very correct guide for friends who are just starting out or who are on the wrong path..
Opportunities always continue here.. Thank you..😇
I have reviewed your posts. They are very good, but you know it, because many of them are supported by steemcurator. You, like me, have seen that if you try to do a good job, it works. Now our task is to convey this to other authors. Thank you.
Conveying this awareness to new writers is really the most basic requirement of the system... an unwritten rule. 😇 I'm glad that you like them, thanks..👍
Hello, your article gave me hope. It is good to know that sooner or later you will see the value of the articles we have prepared with care. Then I continue to write even more beautiful articles ☺️✌️
I can tell you from my own experience, as soon as I started writing posts in which I wanted to convey something to the reader, illustrate my posts with photos, design them, I was immediately supported. At first I was supported by members of the community, and then by the steemcurator. Don't give up.
I also like to share my knowledge by adding the beauties I see to my photos. I saw your justice in your article and I couldn't help but mention that you gave me hope. I have friends who support , I think I'm just at the beginning of the road. What is possible for the better? 🪄☘️
I have reviewed your posts. It's hard for me to give you any advice, because they are wonderful. I also noticed that one of the recent posts got steemcurator support. You are also in the #club100. You are already doing everything right.
The only thing that can be improved is to write more often, but it takes time.
Thank you for taking the time to read and review my articles 🦋 you are very kind, you made me happy. Covid affected me a little bit, I couldn't write for a long time. Now I will post more regularly and frequently. Thank you for your recommendation. ✌️