Thoughts on NewSteem and Rewarding Quality Content
I will try to sum up some thoughts provoked by this evening chat at #SteemSavvy discord and one specific post that I read a few minutes ago written by @mindtrap talking about curating under the #NewSteem.
Firstly, before HF21 I was one of those who was yelling from the crowd that the new rewards system will steal money from the authors and put into the pockets of Steem whales... But, on the other side, even I was worried about the lack of upvotes and manual curators on the network. There was a need for a change and it was needed to be done IMMEDIATELY! We were lucky that some other people on STEEM had a bigger picture of the changes and push them through.
Let be honest, it's not ideal... Far from that... But, it is better... I'm personally one of the "smaller users" here on Steem and I have felt on my own skin changes that #NewSteem brought. Some of my posts were upvoted by whales, others were upvoted by manual curating projects, etc... Before the changes, I have NEVER got an upvote from that kind of user, so I'm a living proof that there are differences! And, what is even more important, there are changes in approach to upvoting by bigger accounts.
Secondly, we had a little discussion in Discord about the content on #CTP tribe... What is the right kind of content for our tribe? Affiliate marketing content, personal development, Actifit, etc... More-less, it is clear what is welcomed on the platform and it is enough to take a look at trending or hot page and you can see how a quality post has to look. But, regarding all that, there are always users who post a picture totally irrelevant to our tribe and expect to get a bunch of votes for that...
As @jongolson said on Discord, we have to protect our #CTP token and community by downvoting content that is not connected in any way with our tribe. I would just say one more thing on this... If you are giving some value to the community, you are welcome to collect benefits from it... You will receive a bunch of upvotes and you will actually EARN money for improving the community... But, if you are here to use us, you are knocking at the wrong door...
We are lucky that we have already build a great base for our community and we have really awesome people posting great stuff... New people coming almost every day and we are helping them to integrate to Steem and CTP as much as we can, and as much as we know... Sharing ideas, sharing knowledge and showing all the possibilities that we have here on Steem...
In the end, I would like to thank everyone from our small community for their awesome content, personal journals, for bringing examples from personal lives to help others to avoid some big mistakes...
Keep on building great content, engage with your viewers/readers, and don't worry... Curators on #CTP and #NewSteem will find and upvote your valuable content... You won't be a millionaire after 5 posts, but you will find some great people here on Steem to help you out to improve yourself...
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Thank you for this great post, Zoltan. Our tribe is a unique and special one for sure & we definitely want to keep that good vibe going. ♥️♥️
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We are the best! Or, maybe not yet... but we will be... :)
Thanks for your comment, @pixiepost!
Your tribe need to improve the quality contents and stick to your niche. I checked a few weeks ago and I was deceived. :(
You are right... And that was exactly the topic of our Discord discussion... Trying to keep the right course... ;)
Thanks for your comment!
Anytime you want to create content you are more than welcome to.
As for quality content...What we are doing is bringing people in that have:
So I think we are doing pretty good.
Sorry you feel deceived. But if you wanna step up and create, we'd love to support you.
Nah, it's an ok bunch of people. Jon is right, some of them are completely new to content creation so they might have no idea what or how to write about.
Using the tag for milking is so wrong and unfortunately I see it in many tribes.
In what way were you deceived? I'm truly curious.
Really great post @ph1102, and it will grow, now I was not on that Discord discussion, but there have been a bit low on quality content here, however this last week has improved greatly and I have seen that myself first hand, both on my own curation and for my project there is way more quality posts just this last week, and this is one of them stay awesome.
Improvements are visible from day to day... And as Jon said, most of the people are totally new to crypto and blogging also... Rome wasn't built in one day... ;)
Thank you for your kind words!
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I was not in on that discussion, but I have to disagree with Jon's comment on down voting content "not part of our community". Anything that contributes to the growth of the individual should be welcomed. There are many ways to "profit".
Hmmm... I don't know at what comment you exactly mean, but I mostly agree with you about the content... But, on the other side, our tribe is niche-oriented, and there are out there some posts that are totally irrelevant to us... Cricket news, soccer results, etc.. that kind of post doesn't contribute in any way...
But, that is MY personal opinion about that... Others probably have different...
Thanks for commenting!
Thanks for a really great post and for your thoughts on this subject @ph1102, yeah it is clear what should be here Jon has laid that out, and as to quality content it is growing and I think it will continue to do so, and it's great that curation has also picked up, again thanks for a great post and your work writing it, it's awesome.
This post is AWESOME!
It has therefore got a manual 100% upvote from @thisisawesome, for the Awesome Daily Upvotes in category CTPtalk, I give out 1 such vote in that category per day, plus 3 more in other categories, and your post will also be featured in todays Awesome Daily report for more visibility.
The goal of this project is to "highlight Awesome Content, and growing the Steem ecosystem by rewarding it".
I totally agree with you! Our small tribe is growing and also the quality of the posts is getting every day better and better...
Thank you for doing a great job of picking every day the best ones with your curation project!
Thank you very much @ph1102, I do hope that what I contribute with will make a difference motivating people to create great content here.