From working individually to coming together as a team, one of the fastest growing communities on Steemit is finally getting some of the attention and rewards it deserves.
Why Now?
According to this report, Nigeria has finally broken into the top 10 most active countries on Steemit with Lagos coming in as the third most active city, climbing above New York and London!
A few months ago, there were only a handful of Nigerian Steemians scattered across the platform, doing their bit to grow themselves and the Nigeria community through meetups, closed circuit mentoring, and various growth plans. With these individuals seemingly doing fine for themselves, there has been an effort to bring everyone together and really build the community. It feels exciting to see that within this very short time, members of the community have been able to identify themselves and also identify more with the community.
With 91,880,032 Internet users as at Dec, 2016 (47.9% of the population), the potential for more growth is staggering. However, one thing that affects authors on Steemit is the lack of visibility for so many posts and the Nigerian community isn't immune from this; in fact, it is greatly affected by it.
Even though posts from this community are in English, not every content from its members will resonate with the wider Steemit audience, thus the need to have Nigerian curators who understand this and can go in search of these quality posts to give them the rewards they deserve.
The Team
The team of curators include @ehiboss, @gbenga, @onequality, @ogoowinner, @destinysaid, and @fisteganos. These curators have been identified by @donkeypong and appropriately trained to effectively carry out the task.
The curators are also being supported and mentored by Steemit veterans; @donkeypong, @hanshotfirst, and @infovore
Thanks to @xeldal, we have received a 30,000 SP delegation to @onequality for use as a part of Project Bigwaves. This means that votes are being placed with the @onequality account only and we hope to get more delegations to other curators to further help.
The Guidelines
For posts to be eligible for curation by Project Bigwaves, a few guidelines need to be adhered to. The following are a few of them:
Posts must be by Nigerian authors only. This project has been setup to grow the Nigerian community and so we will be focusing on Nigerians only.
Only original content. Please make sure sources are linked properly. Plagiarism is strongly frowned upon so if you just "copy and paste", you shouldn't expect to get any reward.
Posts must have the #nigeria tag. Using this tag makes it possible for the curators to find your posts. It is very important so make sure to use it.
A single author may be upvoted only once every 24 hours. This is to make sure that the reward is spread evenly across board.
The higher the quality of your post, the higher the power of our votes! We are not out to reward just anything but quality. The better the quality, the better for the community.
We would not be voting on any post @cheetah or @steemcleaners comments on.
How You Can Help The Project
1.) Support the authors we find, if you like their work. We are working hard to get them noticed and rewarded, but then it’s important for them to become established in the community.
2.) Leave comments on deserving posts and interact with the authors. More often than not, authors appreciate the comments even more than the money. A good comment could go a long way in helping them feel welcome and also provide some encouragement to continue working hard.
3.) Support the curators. Do not forget that the members of Project Bigwaves are scouring the entire community for worthy posts and are thus writing fewer posts themselves. When you see their posts on Steemit, assuming you like those posts, please do not forget what they are doing for this community.
4.) Support the project by delegating some Steem Power. If you'll like to donate/delegate some Steem Power to Project Bigwaves, please contact @donkeypong on steemit.chat
5.) Support the project by joining the trail for @onequality by logging into your account on Streemian and allocating a portion of your votes to follow @onequality.
We hope you agree that Project Bigwaves is an important addition to Steemit in our quest to make Steemit more diverse, and more representative of different authors, including the ones from our fast-growing Nigerian community. We can encourage people to post about what interests them. Instead of following trends, they will be driving Steemit’s natural expansion.
This is a great announcement of the Nigerian curation project and I'm so glad you have shared the curators' standards clearly with the community.
Great work. I'm always glad to see good projects coming from Africa. I think in the coming years we will all look towards Africa and the good, resourceful people there to show us all how to live well and make the best use of everything we've got.
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You would help me with a vote in my post., Thanks !!! ;)
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Good initiative to help Africans. How can I be a part of the curators?
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Hey! This is wrong. Stop spamming.
@fisteganos great to work with you mate, let's get Nigeria on the steemit map. To other Nigerians, its time to start posting quality content, that's one of the main ticket to getting a suitable and rewarding vote on your work. :) if any question is on your mind, you can find me and others on steemitchat
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Very nice @fisteganos! I will keep an eye out for these posts. I know you will work your tail off on this project.
I am currently working with @ogoowinner to put a package together to see what will work or not work in regard to malaria prevention and treatment using natural remedies and mosquito repellant products. We may have also figured out how to use the site Jumia.com.ng using a US based bank card! This will help to save on shipping for products to Nigeria. Also, there is a new Steem account called @shopnowng and it is my understanding a new Nigerian e-commerce site will be launched that allows for payment in BITCOIN!
NIGERIA TO THE MOON!
We might be slow to catch up with new tech but once we do, we don't take it slow lol. Nigerians are amazing people, the potential has always been there.
Nice to see you trying to help. The Jumia Nigeria website is "jumia.com.ng"
Thank you for all the support!
Yes, we were talking about how Nigerians are very hard workers. I think people forget that others want a handup, not a handout. It's amazing what happens when a little technology and knowledge are thrown in the mix. You all are at the forefront of a movement and it's amazing to watch.
BTW I updated the above reply to reflect the ng. I have to remember that.
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In as much as i like the idea and the support. Its also good that we encourage our people to step up their game on an international and multinational platform. We must engage and interests other nationals with our posts hence good stuff besides i think its a good place & opportunity to promote our nation as well as numerous tourists sites available.
Good job fellas.
We definitely want all of that too. What we are providing is a bouncing board from which the best of the best can truly spring forth and take their rightful place in the community at large.
Great . Would do my bit to add some value too!
I am quite impressed with Project Bigwaves and fully support it. Deserving Nigerians need better recognition in steemit. I cannot thank @donkeypong, @hanshotfirst and @infovore enough for supporting this project and training the curators. Many thanks too to @xeldal for delegating 30,000 SP to @onequality in support of project bigwaves. Personally, I've been reading the content of 4 members of the team of curators ( @ogoowinner, @ehiboss, @gbenga, @onequality ) and enjoy doing so, because of the originality and quality. Another Nigerian, whom I have identified could be a great resource for project bigwaves is @smyle. He is less than 3 weeks (18 days)old in steemit, but already proving himself to be a good author, in my opinion. Thanks to @fisteganos for putting this together. I am proudly Nigerian.
Kind regards,
Mary Onah, E(Mrs.)
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This is a good initiative! Thanks @maryfavour
It is a good initiative. You can say that agian, @smyle! It's my pleasure.
@fisteganos, yay!! we just announced everyday as "steemit voting day" for quality posts of Nigerian authors. Nice to see the updates
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Great work! Go Nigeria! :) Resteemed.
Yay! Thanks for the support
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Love the project @fisteganos. Best wishes to your success and growth with Project Bigwaves.
Thank you!
this is a great and welcomed development for the nigerian nation of steemit. am really proud of the quality of nigerian authors i find on steemit.
This is really good to know. Expect them to get a lot better in days to come!
Excellent project. good luck with it. Looking forward to seeing big waves of positivity coming out of Nigeria . Resteemed
Thank you for the support :)
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Wow I'm just seeing this . True Nigerian spirit !!
Together everyone will achieve more !!!!
Big ups!!
Haha! You should see this https://steemit.com/curation/@fisteganos/big-news-bigwaves-got-bigger-overnight
Great work guys! I'm new to steemit and trying to get the hang of things (NEPA and my crippled laptop aren't helping, but Nigerians are known to thrive in the face of adversity), so I can only KINDA understand what's happening, lol.
Still though, it's a great development for us, hope to see tons of progress in the coming months.
Una wehdone!
You're welcome. Haha! With time you'll get a good hang of things 😊
Really impressive, brother. Watch out Everyone, Nigeria is coming to make a positive impact.
Yezzir!
I think this is a beautiful thoughtful and selfless idea..... kudos to all those behind it.
God bless Nigeria
God bless ya too!
this is really helpful. Thanks
This is really encouraging, I'm new to steemit and still learning the ropes. Thank you!