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RE: Steemvoter Guild: Author of Day - 1st Feb 2017 (The First BIG Upvote!)
I'm happy to see the SV Guild up and running! This spotlight is a great way to encourage authors, and I enjoy reading the thoughtful commentary. Will be watching these closely and hopefully will be a good way to discover some interesting people to follow. Nice first pick!
Hey @cryptomancer thanks for the encouragement, we think that the daily anticipation of the SV Guild vote could add some excellent gamification to Steem and liven things up a bit. We hope it will draw more users to Steem seeing other authors receiving relatively large rewards again. We try vote different authors so there is always fresh faces on trending. Oh.. we better leave her comment so she know she has been selected. :)
Yes, you should always comment on the selected posts. Maybe put a SV Guild stamp graphic along with a congratulatory message.
Would be fun if sometimes these are selected by community vote right here on Steemit. You could select, say, 5 finalists and then do a post asking the community to vote on the winner. Or else solicit candidate posts from the community. I remember a daily Steemit newspaper (sadly discontinued) which used to do that, and gave the rewards from the voting post to the users that submitted winning recommendations. There were also rules to keep it fair, like you couldn't recommend your own post, you could only do one recommendation per day, recommendation could only be a link with no commentary, etc
Cool sounds interesting, there are some logistics and additional complexity behind implementing that however. perhaps we should continue with the current format for a while and re-evaluate in a month when this format is getting stale we try that as a new idea to keep bringing fresh ways of doing things to Steem.
Sure, got to try things a step at a time and see how it works out. I think this format is great for now, will be fun to see what kind of posts you guys pick!
Yeah fun is the idea behind it all :) to create a fun community atmosphere.