Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 8 - Application For Steem Cameroon Community

Hello Steem Cameroonians and Steemit Team

Steem Cameroon Community writes this application this day to express her desire to be selected again for Season 5 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge as announced by the Steemit team, through this post on @steemitblog.

This is our second time applying for this challenge, as season 4 helped us grow Steem Cameroon community account strength, which we use to curate articles in the community, and all Admins and mods have decided to stay in at least club75 at all times, to help grow the community and Steemit as a whole. In addition, via season 4 we were able to set up a well-structured way of reviewing all articles/contest entries in the community, which will go a long way again this season provided we are selected.

The Steem Cameroon community was created by @saxopedia on 12/12/2020, with @fombae being the co-founder and ever since then, the community has been welcoming to but cameroon steemians and steemians all over the Steemit platform. From about 10 active posters on the date of creation, today the Cameroon community can boost over 57 active posters and 2,955 subscribers as of the day of writing this application.

Steem Cameroon community was created with the goal or aim of connecting steemians with divest cultures, ideas, and knowledge, in a manner that can never be achieved individually. Most especially give Cameroonian steemians a place to belong.

Steem Cameroon Community is presently managed by six (5) personnel, two (2) of which are administrators and 3 moderators, all of which are of Cameroonian nationality.

Photo and Username	Role	Club Status	Reputation	Information
@saxopedia	ADMIN	club100	73	Joined Steemit in July 2020, and has been active since then. Founder of the Steem Cameroon Community. CR for Cameroon. Own SP: 17,929.581S Effective SP: 10,315.830
@fombae	ADMIN	club100	72	Joined Steemit in July 2020, and has been active since then. Co-founder of the Steem Cameroon Community A former member of the Cosmopolitan Team Own SP: 11,091.688 Effective SP: 5,442.50
@chant	MOD	club100	74	Joined Steemit in July 2020, and has been active since then. CR for Cameroon. selected as one of the community curators for this month Own SP: 17,443.46 Effective SP: 19,430.44
@majerius	MOD	club100	69	Joined Steemit in January 2021, and has been active since then. Own SP: 5,425.00 Effective SP: 2,410.15
@bongk	MOD	club75	65	Joined Steemit in December 2021, and has been active since then. Own SP: 440.82 Effective SP: 339.72

Steem Cameroon Community has one official curation account (@steem-cameroon). Created with the aim of supporting all members of the Steem Cameroon community who publish good articles which meet the Steemit etiquette and Steem Cameroon community rules. This account was created upon the creation of the Steem Cameroon community and presently owns 22,941.64 Steem Power and 42,371.42 delegated, giving an effective Steem Power of 65,313.06.

The community account is built up in three main ways.

• First is by powering up post payout through the community publications (in cases where the post is set on 50%SBD / 50% SP)
• Secondly by freewill delegations from both all Steem Cameroon admins and mods, and Steem Cameroon members.
  *Lastly, by freewill setting @steem-cameroon beneficiary of any percentage of post payout.

The screenshot below from https://steemworld.org/@steem-cameroon give details about the community account.

All Administrative personnel of the Steem Cameroon Community holds the Private Posting Key of the community's curation account, while its Private Active Key and MASTER KEY are held by founder and co-founder (@saxopedia and @fombae).

Presently the admins of Steem Cameroon Community have established a google sheet whereby it is been updated with the links of all new articles in the community just to make sure we leave no article un review.

All administrative personnel of Steem Cameroon uses the above sheet to keep track of all articles published in the community, and to facilitate the reviewing, curating, and commenting process of all articles. This sheet has the following fields:

SN -> for the number of articles
Author -> account name of the person who publishes the article
Country -> Country of origin of the author
Club Status -> Club status of the account
Link -> links of the article published
Published Date -> Date of publication
Plagiarized -> to record all plagiarized articles
Admin -> to record the name of the admin or mod who reviewed the article
Review -> If the article is reviewed or not
Curator vote -> if the article in question has received a vote from either the Steemit Team, booming, or community curators.

The administrative personnel of Steem Cameroon together came up with a comfortable way of commenting on all articles. A sample screenshot of our comment can be seen below.

For checking for plagiarism, we use

• https://www.duplichecker.com/
• https://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/
  To check the originality of any article.

While For club status,

• https://steemworld.org/transfer-search
• https://www.steemcryptic.me/club5050
  To carefully check the authors club status.

• Communication between community members and admins. Steem Cameroon has both a discord channel and a telegram channel which is open and welcoming to community members and aspiring community members, whereby we get in touch with members, share our thoughts, opinions, and ideas on publishing quality articles, and also work effectively as one to build a better Steem Cameroon.

• The Steem Cameroon Community runs weekly contests to keep its members active and engaging, which also helps members improve the quality of their posts over time.

• There is a compulsory requirement of at least 250-word counts on every publication before it is qualified to receive support from the community account, admins, and mods.

• Explicit articles are usually published via the community account to guide members on the appropriate/correct use of tags to help fetch articles easily which intends to facilitate the review and curation process of articles.

• With the experience, we have had from the previous engagement challenge season, we are up to the task and ready to go in for another season

• The Steem Cameroon Community presently has 2000+ subscribers with an average of at least 57 active posts weekly

• We already have in place 4 amazing engaging contest ideas to carry us out through this season

The administrative team makes sure to check publications every single day, and good quality posts gain support from our official curation account, @steem-cameroon.

The administrative team comprises club100 members, as such we support the Steem growth project of Steemit.

Great improvements have evolved from members from the creation date till the present date.

The administrators are more than willing to grow on the steemit platform.

Steem Cameroon Community is the favorite of many authors.

Steem Cameroon Team
And our humble regards to The Steemit Team