This is not a place for self promotion. Drop links to posts by other authors in the comments.
Aspiring @curie curators please read the entire post and let me know you would like to become a @curie curator when you first drop a link!
Aspiring @curie curators should also read through this entire post and my responses to previous submissions in the comments before you start dropping off links - you may pick up some valuable pointers that will save us all some time instead of rehashing the same mistakes every beginning curator makes. For extra-credit reading please review my responses to comments at the Curator Incubator v2.0 & Curator Incubator v1.
Are you looking for a place to promote your own awesome post?
Newer authors (REP < 46) can promote their own post in the comments of my step-brother @thehumanbot's Charity Upvote posts! Here is a link to the current week's Charity Upvote Post (published December 10th) but please visit the @thehumanbot blog for the most recent post if you are reading this at some date in the future. Also, how is the future? Has Steem reached the moon yet?
What is new with Version 2.1?
Nothing major has changed from v2.0, hence no new major version renumber. The big change from v1 to the v2 numbering is that @humanbot / @carlgnash is not necessarily going to check every submission for original work and award a Badge of Originality if the post is original. The first post was a great success but going through every submission with the care necessary to award a Badge of Originality took more time than I actually had to give. See the CHANGELOG at the bottom of this post for a complete list of all changes.
Who or what is @humanbot?
@humanbot is an extension of @carlgnash; in a nutshell, the content review services that @carlgnash has previously offered on his blog are moving here. In addition, there are several new initiatives in the works to support great content on Steemit that will be gracing the @humanbot blog soon - stay tuned!
What is the Curator Incubator & Link Drop?
This is a place for aspiring curators and anyone who wants to help an undervalued post be seen by more eyes. Drop links in the comments to good posts (original content only please, no copy pasta) by undervalued authors.
If you are dropping off multiple links, please drop them all off in the same comment to make this thread more manageable as it grows.
How do you define "good posts by undervalued authors"?
"Good posts by undervalued authors" is purposefully not defined here. This is open to interpretation to a certain extent and any submission of original content by another author is welcome.
How will the Curator Incubator & Link Drop help undervalued authors and posts?
- @humanbot / @carlgnash will go through as many submissions as possible, awarding a Badge of Originality to posts that are both the original work of the post author and show some true originality and creativity (as subjectively determined by moi). When a badge is awarded the author will be followed by both @carlgnash and @humanbot and the post will be upvoted from both accounts as well. Read more about the Badge of Originality here.
- Good original content by undervalued authors (totally subjective determination here) will also receive an @r-bot upvote and associated trailing votes.
- I encourage everyone who drops a link here to take a minute to look at some of the other posts submitted in the comments. I would love to see comments from users of this link drop when I do go check on posts that have been submitted here! If you like a post, please tell the post author what you like about the post, or why you like it.
- Consider helping me curate the links in the comments here by upvoting submissions that you think are particularly good, to bring them up higher in the list.
Please do not drop links to your own posts here
This is not a space for self promotion. Dropping a link to your own post in the comments is a violation of the totally non-binding terms of service and may result in an alien spacecraft visiting your domicile and testing out the new transmogrification ray... but at the very least your post will be ignored.
To the aspiring @curie curators
@carlgnash is a curator for @curie. Let me speak in the first person here for a second as @carlgnash. I have achieved top curator status for @curie the past three weeks running and have every intention of doing so to the best of my ability in future weeks as well. Yes, this does mean that I can recommend curators to @curie any week that I was top curator the previous week. No, this does not mean you should DM me or otherwise harass me about nominating you. This post is the official channel for you to impress me with your curation ability. You can do this in several ways: - First, do not drop me links to your own posts or DM me about a curator nomination unless I specifically tell you to DM me. If you fail to follow these instructions, you will be instantly and forevermore blacklisted from future @curie nomination by me.
- Read this entire post and my responses to previous submissions in the comments before you start dropping off links - you may pick up some valuable pointers that will save us all some time instead of rehashing the same mistakes every beginning curator makes. For extra-credit reading please review my responses to comments at the Curator Incubator v1.
- Notify me that you are interested in becoming a @curie curator when you first drop a link off here in the comments.
- Drop me links to posts that you think are truly exceptional here in the comments so I can get a feel for your curation style, what you are looking for and what your idea of exceptional is.
- Please tell me why you feel the post is exceptional. Clearly articulating why you feel a post is exceptional and worthy of @curie adds bonus points to your submission.
- You do not have to stick to the @curie guidelines - I am more interested in getting a feel for what kind of content you think is exceptional.
- Bonus points if you submit good original posts outside of the fields of art/music/photography/travel blogging. It is harder to find good original content in areas like gaming, science, health, etc. There is a lot of copy pasta and it is often much more difficult to tell with those kinds of posts if it is plagiarism. Prove to me you can identify quality original content in tags like this!
- Read through the posts that are left here in the comments by other users and tell me in the comments here if you think any are exceptional, and if so, why you feel that way. Please do not go through the comments here and trash submissions, telling me why you think they suck. Only reply to a post submitted by someone else in the comments here if you think it is an awesome post, and in that case, please say why you feel this way. If you can clearly articulate what you like about a post dropped here by another user, that will be points in your favor when I consider recommending you to @curie.
- I encourage you to leave good thoughtful comments in response to posts that you find through the incubator. If you like a post, please tell the post author what you like about the post, or why you like it. As I work my way through submissions you will earn bonus points if I see you have been actively engaged in commenting.
- Check posts that are submitted here for plagiarism. If you can prove that a post submitted here for review is plagiarized, please leave any proof you have (link to the original content, suspicious posting patterns by the author, garbled language that seems to have been translated by software, etc.) here in the comments. A big part of being a @curie curator is being able to detect plagiarized content. Prove to me that you have a talent for this and you are ahead of the game.
Cheers - @humanbot / @carlgnash
Let the link dropping commence!
original @humanbot art by @carlgnash
CHANGELOG:
v2.1: 12.11.17 4:06am UTC
- Updated link to point to current @thehumanbot Charity Upvote Post
- Updated version change text to reflect no major changes since v2.0
v2.0.1: 11.20.17 9:06pm UTC
- Instruction added for aspiring @curie curators to read the entire post and responses to comments before dropping links; extra credit-reading link to v1 comments
- Instruction added "If you are dropping off multiple links, please drop them all off in the same comment to make this thread more manageable as it grows"
v2.0: 11.13.17 10:02pm UTC
- Name change to "The HumanBot Curator Incubator & Link Drop" from "The HumanBot Curator Incubator | Link Drop | Original Works Verifier"
- @carlgnash / @humanbot no longer promises to review every submission, but will review as many as time allows
- Link added to step-brother @thehumanbot for a place that authors can self promote their own posts
- Instructions to aspiring @curie curators updated and expanded
v1.0.1: 11.8.17 1:52am UTC
- Added Badge of Originality art and post link
- Added original works authors will receive a @humanbot follow
- Clarified original works will receive either a @humanbot upvote or a @carlgnash upvote (whichever is greater)
- Edited "To the aspiring Curie curator" section to encourage commenting on posts, and to encourage non art/music/photography/travel posts
SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED - please visit the new Curator Incubator Post:
https://steemit.com/curation/@humanbot/the-humanbot-curator-incubator-and-link-drop-v3-0
https://steemit.com/fiction/@ronyxoxo/faith-hope-and-love
Do check this Out . I wanna be Curie Curator
I really enjoyed this. Great submission. This is a post that could well have been submitted and might have been upvoted by curie, but I don't think it is a sure bet. There were portions that I would say are exceptional, but taken as a whole the writing is a little uneven. It is still a very good post. You are already impressing me :) Drop me by another good post here in the comments. Impress me again and we will talk about Curie curator :)
https://steemit.com/technology/@unacomn/japan-to-prevent-employees-working-overtime-with-drones
Okay that is just flat out hilarious. Both the original news story that prompted this piece, and the post itself. The real world is indeed stranger than fiction. Thanks for sharing this one! I awarded my "Badge of Originality" and the post will get the @humanbot vote trail, which should end up over $2.
BTW I forgot to ask, are you dropping links by here in part because you are interested in becoming a Curie curator? Of course I welcome everyone to drop by links here regardless, but looking at this piece through the Curie lens IMO it is probably a little short and the original news story would need to be sourced. I actually think the writing is exceptionally funny and the quality of the writing is quite good. Typically when writing is the primary device of a post (e.g. the post does not contain exceptional original art, photography, music, etc.), you don't often see posts of this length or shorter getting upvoted through Curie. I would think it was a risky submission primarily because of this reason (as well as citing the source for the news story, but that isn't that big a deal here as the bulk of the post is original fiction).
I have added this poster to my "Curie Follow" query and will not be surprised in the slightest if he ends up posting something that I can submit to Curie. Thanks for this submission here!
Cheers - Carl
A motivational Post.
https://steemit.com/motivation/@christianosei/you-are-destined-to-reign
https://steemit.com/life/@peculiarmary/give-me-that-heart-in-children-let-me-go-on-5bb00e8f8714
Checking these now. I am sure you were thinking you would increase your visibility here by upvoting but it actually caused me to miss these until now. Don't upvote your comments here, when I am checking this post I scroll to the bottom of the comment thread. I missed these because of that. I will report back shortly on the links :)
EDIT:
Okay I am back having read the links. The "You are destined to reign" piece is very clearly religious, which is one of the general categories of posting that is not eligible for a Curie (check out the Expanded Guidelines pinned to the #curie channel in steemit.chat for the full list). Even if that was not the case, the post is pretty short and the writing is not exceptional. This is not a Curie worthy post.
"Give me that heart in children" is a good post but not an exceptional post. There are quite a few errors in language usage - this can be excused when the author speaks English as a second language, but the post would have to be really exceptional to be approved by Curie in this case. Most of the images are not original and are not sourced from free-use sources (even though at least there are source links for all images). I think this post would fall under the category of a "nice" but not "exceptional" post, and Curie is looking for exceptional. I did upvote this post through @r-bot though :)
Cheers - Carl
Ok thanks I'll find some exceptional posts.
https://steemit.com/story/@jayna/writing-workshop-volume-10-perspective-and-point-of-view-pov-in-fiction-writing
Her workshops should be worth more!
Ah I couldn't agree with you more. This series is really an amazing resource for authors and is criminally under-rewarded. This same post, if by an author of REP lower than 53, would absolutely be a post worthy of submission to Curie. I was very happy to give this post a nice boost through @humanbot / badge of originality and @r-bot. Thanks for dropping this off here. Cheers - Carl
Thanks.✊
https://steemit.com/blog/@entrepreneur.hub/designing-a-killer-post
This is a pretty good post - I certainly agree with all the advice, and the original infographic is a nice touch. I would say however that in general, this type of article carries a lot more weight when it comes from an account that has been around for longer and already has a track record of writing good posts, not to mention accumulated some REP. It is almost a Steemit punchline to see a "How to succeed on Steemit" or "How to write a great post" post written by a brand new author/account who has not succeeded yet nor proven the ability to write great posts. If I had $1 SBD for every time I saw an author with REP <30 write a "How to succeed on Steemit" post I would be rich :) I do see some value in this post though, particularly with the advice to write about something you are passionate about and to take the time to edit/re-read and remove extraneous words to make the final post more concise. I upvoted the post through @r-bot. Thanks for sharing - Cheers - Carl
Wow what a piece of writing this one:
https://steemit.com/life/@sharonomics/to-give-or-not-to-give
It has everything that a good writing warrants. Sitting at over 5 hours at 46 cents it is grossly undervalued. I wish I was a whale or a curator to give it the push it deserves. Take a look and if you disagree I am outta here.
Agreed this is good writing. But I am getting some strange vibes from those posts on that account, all the commenters who are resteeming, and the website. I am not 100% sure I have figured it out. I left a relatively lengthy comment on the post you linked and hope a reply there from @sharonomics will give me some more clarity. I did upvote the post through @r-bot and hope I don't end up regretting that. I have to ask you point blank - are you (@bitbulls) and @sharonomics the same (are both accounts controlled by the same person)?
Well you can message me anytime on my Telegram group and provide me your email where I can share my telephone to talk to me.
I would prefer if you just answered what was a simple question - are you and @sharonomics the same individual? Looking at the early history of the @sharonomic account it seemed like this was a distinct possibility as they resteemed a ton of your posts in a row. The other thing I am wondering is if you are NOT the same, are you both part of some kind of resteem ring? Quite a few of the accounts that commented/resteemed the post you linked to got Cheetah flags/downvotes on their comments saying they had resteemed, and when I investigated all those accounts were pretty easily linked through the wallet transaction history to known low REP spammers...
Best case scenario, you are unrelated to @sharonomics and @sharonomics is just oblivious to the fact that they are handing out $1 upvotes to accounts which funnel their income to known blockchain spammers/scammers. But you can see why I want to dig a little deeper here. I should have done my due diligence before I upvoted the linked post with @r-bot, but now that I have already done this, I want to follow up as best I can to make sure I did not accidentally support spammers/scammers here.
Please note I am not assuming you are guilty of anything. I just noted some things that make it at least possible you are associated with this activity, and that is why I asked you.
EDIT - Ah, I see through the Telegram group link you shared that you are probably associated with Autonio, which has the partnership with AlgoShare / @sharonomics. That may explain some of the resteem activity I saw on the early account history from @sharonomics. Of course that still leaves the question of why shell accounts for blockchain spammers/scammers are getting $1+ upvotes from @sharonomics..
Cheers - Carl
Autonio is my project and the only thing @sharonomics has to do with it is a joint venture in which they want to use our trading bot to build a layer of AlgoShare on top and build a DEX. Sir, I am a simple guy neither as educated as @sharonomics, nor I am good with words. So I will leave it to him to do the explaining.
Thank you very much for this response. I appreciate it. I wish you the best of luck in your venture, it really does look cool. Cheers
I want to apologize for choking up the comments of the post you linked with my long winded questions and replies. I just got the feeling I had unwittingly upvoted a poster who was supporting scammers here on Steem blockchain. From your reply and @sharonomics I am pretty sure that this was unintentional, and I hope I didn't cause you any distress. My apologies. - Carl
https://steemit.com/news/@entrepreneur.hub/top-10-start-ups-going-to-boom-in-2018
This is good info, I think it worth more
Huh this may just be a coincidence but it seems a little strange that a brand new account like the @entrepeneur.hub, that has so few followers, was linked twice here already - are you the same person as @afzal-anees / @entrepeneur.hub? Looking at the list of follows/followers for your account, @afzal-anees and @entrepeneur.hub it seems a possibility...
RE the post itself, it is a nice compilation of promising companies (although I certainly wouldn't classify Ripple as a "start-up" LOL) and it does appear to be original work. I upvoted through @r-bot
https://steemit.com/technology/@unacomn/the-ram-price-conspiracy
Interesting post, and sounds pretty credible. I wish that there were more sources provided or some kind of info on where he got this information - is it all just common knowledge? Maybe it is, I don't know. Seems like the kind of post that could definitely have used some sources at the bottom for further reading, if not inline sources for some of the various claims. Thanks for dropping this by here - upvoted through @r-bot
Wouldn't be a conspiracy if there were sources. But for the actual stuff: China entering the market next year, Samsung's CEO being arrested for bribery and embezzlement, 3 companies owning the entire DRAM market, those are common knowledge in this space. The only one that wasn't is the connection between drug money and the RAM market, that's not something that turns up at a simple search, so I sourced that.
Wait I didn't catch that you were a secret vampire before! It all makes a lot more sense now. I bet all kinds of things are common knowledge to secret vampires. Don't worry, your secret is safe with me and the rest of the blockchain LOL
Cool thanks for that! Like I said I wasn't sure as I am definitely NOT up to speed on this topic at all. Very interesting and at first blush it seems pretty likely that you are right on the money here :) Cheers - Carl
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@stellarr/introducing-my-in-these-shoes-what-will-you-do-series
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@stellarr/cut-on-her-shattered-pieces
https://steemit.com/funny/@stellarr/sms-language-do-you-mind
This Steemian is new to steemit but doing very well. I think her writing needs to be encouraged. Newcomers to steemit easily get discouraged.
Hey thanks for dropping these by. I really like her! I upvoted the shattered pieces through @r-bot and upvoted/commented on a more recent post with my main account. Totally the kind of good poster that we should encourage to stay here, you are right. I added her to my "Curie Follow" query and will be keeping an eye on her posting :)
Cheers - Carl
Hi
Although I have been Steeming for some time I still feel pretty clueless when it comes to promotion.
I have never looked to promote any of my own stuff. I would like to start to help promote new peoples work.
I came across this today. I would like to see this kind of content gain more credit.
https://steemit.com/ptsd/@khackett/confessions-of-a-twin-mom-being-a-parent-with-ptsd
Ah this is a raw and emotional post that hit me straight in the heart. I am grateful every day that my two sons (3 and 1) have had no health issues and I have been able to provide a safe loving home for them. They are my light and life and I can't even imagine what she has been through. I was very happy to support her post with the Badge of Originality and associated vote trail.
BTW I can't quite tell from your comment - when you say you would like to start to help promote new people's work, were you throwing your name in the hat as being interested in becoming a curie curator?
Feel free to keep the links coming either way, but let me know if this is an audition for Curie curator and I will give you feedback specific to that in the future.
Much love - Carl (@humanbot)
Although I have been Steeming for a good while I still don't know too much about the engines that drive this wonderful steem creation.
I will send you things with no obligation but to hope to promote great work.
I am interested in understanding what is involved with taking that step to calling yourself a curator.
I would be glad to hear from you. It wasn't an audition or request of any kind. I do however find myself wondering what direction to take on this platform, and would be happy for any ideas shared.
I mostly wanted to be sure I wasn't spamming you with inappropriate links.
Please do keep sending me links here. It is absolutely not spamming if you are giving me links to posts by other authors you have found and like. That is one of the purposes of this post. The other is a more specific purpose for folks that want to earn my nomination as a Curie curator - I tailor the kind of feedback I give, with specific "curie type" advice given if someone has identified as a prospective curie curator, and more general type feedback given for just any ole link dropper :) Much love - Carl
This is a good quality post by a new author. I think it deserves more exposure.
https://steemit.com/travel/@travelin-girl/australia-travel-part-4-sydney-overnight
Yes absolutely agree that she is an awesome poster, I believe I upvoted a different post from her with @r-bot and she received a Curie for another post recently. Definitely an up and coming author! I thought this was a good post, but what pushed it over the edge was that cover image photo. I have seen (as I am sure we all have) a million photos of the Sydney Opera House. She found a unique angle to take that shot, under the perfect lighting, and the result was magical. Loved it. I gave her my Badge :)
Cheers - Carl (and good to see you here buddy!
BTW I don't think you have a steemit.chat account, or if you do it is not the same as your username here? I now have a private chat channel there for the Humanbot badge holders. You can drop off a post link there if you award your own badge to it and other badge holders may resteem/comment/promote, etc., and I will come through with the @humanbot account to upvote it so it gets the vote trail. Reply to one of my comments to let me know if and when you make a steemit.chat account, and I will add you to the channel.
Hi Carl, I have a steemit.chat account but it is different from my Steemit account username. On steemit.chat, I am wmd1978. It would have been more practical to have used the same name. It would be great to join your channel.
Just added you to the #humanbot channel on Steemit.chat :)
https://steemit.com/gaming/@unacomn/diablo-fan-fiction
While I can honestly say that I enjoyed the first two pieces by @unacomn that you dropped off here, it isn't really the intent of this post to just plug the same user over and over. I know you two are associated by your blog header but I am going to ask that you not drop off any more links from @unacomn here. Feel free to drop links that you actually curate (links to posts by other authors that you find and think are quality, undervalued posts - I would love to see them).
I hope you don't take any offense at this. None intended.
Cheers - Carl
Please check my post: https://steemit.com/freetopia/@aditya.aggarwal/day-2-traffic-hunt-goes-on
This is not a place for self promotion. Future links dropped to your own posting here will result in flags.
I am sorry... Did not know...
https://steemit.com/steemit/@suzn.poudel/beginners-how-to-increase-the-value-of-your-post
This poster posts videos and photos that are not his own work and does not indicate this or provide a source link. This particular post that you linked is not plagiarized, but I wouldn't call it "original" in the true sense of the word. Advice posts on "how to succeed at Steemit" like this are a dime a dozen and it is almost a Steem punchline to seem them come from an author who has not had success themselves. It is a poorly written post.
Is this original post ????
https://steemit.com/technology/@afzal-anees/designing-a-compressor-fan-for-a-custom-turbo-charger
Yes I think it is. I had some questions about previous posting by this author because I found one of the previous dune buggy posts had been published some years earlier in a paper - but I was not able to rule out the possibility he had been one of the original authors, and as far as this post in particular the dates in the screencaps are just a few days ago, the images and texts check out as original when I google them and I am pretty sure yes it is original. These posts are really good. They are definitely Curie worthy, but Curie does not typically upvote multiple parts in a series or multiple posts that are very similar by the same author, and this author already received a Curie for a "how to design" a part of his buggy post in the past. Nice find though - it deserved more payout and I upvoted through @r-bot. Cheers - Carl
Hello @carlgnash, I would like you to check out this author to see if it is fit for curie. Original images were used by the author.
Here is a link to the post https://steemit.com/howto/@sahrodion/how-to-change-or-upgrade-your-pc-ram-with-step-by-step-images-5d981b348a976
Have a nice day.
This is a great post, a clearly written tutorial with excellent photography to illustrate it. I would have submitted this to Curie if the author had not already received a previous Curie on a very similar subject (another tutorial post on how to make an external hard drive out of an old hard drive from a PC). One of the Curie guidelines is that Curie is unlikely to upvote multiple parts of a series or even two posts that are very similar from the same author. This would make it a very risky submission in my opinion. I think he is a great poster though. I upvoted the post through @r-bot. Cheers - Carl
https://steemit.com/travel/@dbo/belize-island-paradise
This is a great post. "Travel" is a very competitive category for Curie submissions - only the most exceptional are approved. This is a well written, well formatted and well photographed travel post. I believe the underwater photography and video would have pushed this post over the top - my opinion is this post would likely be approved if submitted to Curie... if this was not a repost of 2 year old material. It would have been a sure rejection.
http://www.danielbowden.com.au/travel/2015/05/15/belize-islandparadise/
I gave the poster an upvote through @humanbot and Badge of Originality even though I don't typically do this for reposts - I think the poster shows a lot of promise and I left a comment that I hope encourages him to produce some original to Steemit content. Nice find. But the specific Curie advice I would give here is to Google paragraphs throughout every post you are considering submitting. I did not turn up any matches for the first few paragraphs I googled but I did turn up a match to his linked website for one of the paragraphs toward the end. Reverse image search was not turning up the images either - Google had not indexed his old website very well, but it did eventually turn up the match.
@humanbot this content is very informative and original too..you might consider sharing it at curie
https://steemit.com/steemiteducation/@ornima/history-of-women-education-and-women-s-contribution
One of the skills required to be a successful Curie curator is recognizing strange word choices in a text that could only result from either (or both) a poster substituting synonymous words from a previously published piece to avoid plagiarism detection, or a text that has been auto-translated from another language. In this case I believe it is both, unfortunately. The original text is an auto-translated English language version of a http://www.banglapedia.org/ post. The below screencap shows how the poster you linked has swapped out enough words that the OriginalWorks algorithm did not detect the plagiarism. Google turned it up pretty easily. Google (and reverse Google image search) is how I back up the hunches I get but I knew this was not original work the second I started to read it.
This post is very interesting. It is educative and not the everyday type article
I will also love to be a curie curator
https://steemit.com/steemstem/@jajdgenius/did-you-know-biting-of-pencil-can-cure-your-headache
This post is not original work, or at least, most of it is not. Adding a short section of dialogue is not enough to qualify as original work when the bulk of this post is the sneaky worst sort of plagiarism where the poster is just changing some word order around and swapping out a word here or there from the articles being plagiarized - just enough that bots like cheetah and originalworks don't catch it. Check out the screencap below to see what I mean. Google turned up the matches pretty quickly. Interestingly the sources listed at the end of the article were not the actual sources that had been copied - this is "smart" on the part of the plagiarizer, just another sneaky maneuver :(
This post is very educative. It breaks down the topic and explains it so well.
https://steemit.com/steemstem/@shodiya/diabetes-mellitus-starvation-in-the-midst-of-plenty
While I do not believe this post is directly plagiarized, it is also not "original" in the true sense of the word. Just paraphrasing and rephrasing the information that can be found in Wikipedia and other online sources about an illness does not make an article original. There needs to be original thought and original conclusions; something to add value to the post. I do not see anything here except the short original story about a childhood friend who had juvenile diabetes that adds anything at all to what I can learn by just visiting the Wikipedia article. There is nothing wrong with this post necessarily, but neither would I say this post is exceptional. You see a lot of this kind of posting and it really doesn't add any value to the platform.
https://steemit.com/cloud/@xettrinabin/birdshapped-photography-3fd08cb6df197
Okay I actually enjoyed this one a lot :) That is a funny shaped cloud. It is a pretty good picture. I upvoted through @carlgnash and followed the poster. I wouldn't say the post is "exceptional" but I did enjoy it - thanks for sharing!
@humanbot this content is very informative and original too..you might consider sharing it at curie.
https://steemit.com/technology/@amity123/is-it-really-a-radiation-of-your-smartphone
This is not a place for self promotion. Please do not drop your own links here. If you do so again it will result in flags. Please read the beginning of the post above - this is a post for curators to drop links to content by other authors. Thanks
this guy deserves an upvote
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@raoyan18/rnews-online-news-portal-share-news-with-world
Huh I checked out the post but not sure what to say. It would have been nice maybe to have a link to an example of a website that uses this code so I could actually see what had been accomplished - as it is that screencap could have been from anywhere. I note the link to the github repository is a broken link - I was able to visit the repository manually and at least see the files there but there was no documentation there to speak of either - the readme.txt file was just the generic codeignitor readme file (codeignitor being the framework this was built on). There needed to be more effort put into this post to make it clear what was actually accomplished. I am not going to install this on a website somewhere just to see an example of what was done. You can see that the utopian mods had more or less the same opinion. This might very well be an impressive piece of coding but there is no way to tell at all from that post.
I would like to nominate this post:
https://steemit.com/substratum/@b-s/substratum-eine-open-source-stiftung-zur-dezentralisierung-des-internets
It's some german post explaining the substratum project in a pretty detailed way. I'm not sure if you can use this for curie upvote, but it's some absolutely undervalued gem and pretty nice to read.
Have a nice day
I wish I had a better way to evaluate foreign language posts. Looking at Google translated version it looks good but I can't really evaluate originality and quality in a foreign language post. To clarify RE Curie, a post has to be English language in the post body (or at least bilingual with English portion). BTW nice to see this post got up to $50 payout so at least somebody was able to read it and upvote :). Thanks for the submission though. I just don't feel qualified to really comment on foreign language posts.
This is an original poetry by the person that introduced me to steemit
https://steemit.com/poetry/@abmakko/the-good-child
Thanks I enjoyed this post. I upvoted a poem he published today with @humanbot and awarded my badge of originality :) Cheers
https://steemit.com/travel/@katarinamiliv/phi-phi-island-magic-parties-dating-tips-and-my-own-missed-opportunities
Great post. Please DM me on steemit.chat I would like to continue this one on one if you are still interested in becoming a @curie curator. Cheers :) Carl
Hello @carlgnash, been a while. How is the holidays going?
Still hunting for posts :).. Check out this detailed tutorial, you can check if it meets curie standards. https://steemit.com/how-to/@bniode/how-to-design-and-create-a-static-website
This is a great post. I am sorry I did not check this while it was in payout. I had a great time with family over the extended holidays but have been trying to catch up every since. I followed this author now and upvoted a post of hers from today.
https://steemit.com/sleep/@dayveedben/sleep-and-its-contibution-to-health
https://steemit.com/stach/@dayveedben/diabetes-and-dental-health
https://steemit.com/steemstem/@joshuaetim/gender-disparity-in-the-health-sector
@humanbot I found these posts educative
The first @dayveedben post I checked was blatant copy paste plagiarism, with a small section edited out of the source article which was apparently enough for Cheetah to miss it. I didn't check the second post from same author but usually when one post of this nature is copy/paste plagiarism they all are. You can check it for yourself - it is a good exercise. Google some paragraphs and see if you can find what article the diabetes post is copied from. Here is screencap of the sleep post plagiarism side-by-side:
I believe the @joshuaetim post was original, but for a post that makes a bunch of factual claims like this it would have been nice to have some sources and actual numbers to back up the points. As far as @curie goes, any post that makes factual claims like this would typically be expected to provide sources, and some factual data would have made this post a lot stronger in my opinion. If you are interested in @curie curation, look for the TRULY exceptional posts, with professional quality photography, or exquisite writing - and then of course make sure to Google the post a bit to make sure it is original! A good tip is to reverse image search the images as well.
Cheers and good luck - Carl
Came across this blog post a couple of hours ago and left it feeling very inspired to travel more and invest more in photography. Very original content as well as quite personal as it is someone's own experience.
https://steemit.com/travel/@mibreit-photo/7-places-to-visit-and-photograph-in-rome
The post you linked was already 15 days old (8 days past payout) when you dropped off this link here and the post had already received a @curie upvote and resteem, not to mention $225 payout. This is not really the kind of post that needs promoting :) It is a great post though. Cheers
Hello! I would like to give some attention to this post. Author is well-informed, has a comprehensive writing style and has the ability to write the article on M.Sc. student level that is still understandable for the general public.
From my perspective, I don't like the content in "science" tag because there are a lot of articles that are no science at all, articles that are just plain re-writing from some general newspapers and lot of text that are manual for high school (elementary school) classes.
For me, it's frustrating sometimes when some of my posts that were made directly from the scientific paper earn much less than some general post - but now, there is no way to fix it.
For example, my best-written Math post earned 0.37 $ while the best-paid math post got 37 $ although the first post was much more difficult to write.
If you focus on the amount of effort that a post took to write and try to make some correlation to post payout, Steem is going to be a frustration to you. This is not a blogging platform, it is a social media network. The amount of post payout depends almost entirely on the amount of time and effort the post author has put into engaging with other users in the social media network; making quality posts helps of course, but it is a MUCH smaller factor in this equation than the engagement with the social media network. The number one mistake I see people making when new on platform is to spend all their time and energy writing posts (and seeing very little reward for it) when time and energy spent reading and honestly/thoughtfully commenting on other poster's posting is more important to build up the network needed for success.
As far as the post you linked, I am reasonably sure it is plagiarized from a French language source but have not been able to prove that yet. You will note that all the images are French language and no source is given for the images. The language usage feels like auto-translated English version of a foreign language piece - there are some funny word choices that I don't think would have happened if this was just a poster who spoke English as a second language. Leaving aside the question of originality, a factual post like this needs to cite sources. Those images, which are definitely not the original work of the poster, need to be sourced. Sources need to be listed for the factual claims. I personally don't support science posting with upvotes if it does not meet this very minimal bar of citing sources for all material that is not the original work of the post author.
Problem is that people get frustrated too soon, with too little efforts.
My goal for the first month was - to buy myself a coffee (5-10 $)
And to write about the topics I like, cars and science.
It's a good fun for me and just the sharing of my regular daily curiosity.
At some point, I became a bit greedy, but I learned... It's ok now.
You are maybe right about my first young favorite.
But... I think we could have new, successful author.
And the nickname is nice @scienceangel
Oh yes totally understand what you are saying about frustration, and the main reason I shared that above is because I see this is a root cause of frustration - if you already have it in your head that your success is going to be less about the quality and time you put into your posting (at the beginning) and more about the time you put in networking, it helps to align the effort you are putting in with what will actually bring you reward down the road. The entire first few weeks or month is likely to be kind a slog if all you are doing is posting and are not spending at least as much time interacting and building the network. And the most valuable "reward" you can receive when you are starting out is the friendship and "follow" of an established user with higher stake - this means way more than a payout on a single post. Checking your submission now.
In future please link to a specific post and not a poster - it makes it easier to give more focused feedback. I enjoyed her last post and upvoted through my main account: https://steemit.com/health/@scienceangel/why-do-some-people-faint-after-having-their-blood-drawn
Clearly written and well cited. From the particular lens of Curie, this post doesn't really have any original thought and is more just a summary of the existing sources and literature on the topic - this is absolutely fine for a post in general, but to me I am not sure it meets the high bar of excellence I am looking for when submitting Curie posts. From the expanded guidelines: "Fact-based articles must be properly cited and with author’s personal take on them. Simply paraphrasing other sources without adding anything substantial does not qualify, even if properly cited."
You could argue that the author did add a short story RE her personal experience with this issue, and added a sentence of conclusion at the end. My personal opinion is this does not qualify as adding anything substantial to the information that was already in the sources.
Definitely a quality poster, I have added her to my Curie follow query.
Cheers - Carl
https://steemit.com/love/@akashpoudelnp/love-just-happens-anywhere-or-anytime-201811t81447156z. Check this out
This is not a place for self promotion. If you drop links to your own posts here in the future it will result in flags. This is a place to drop links that you have "curated" - posts by other authors that you think are exceptional and need more exposure.
https://steemit.com/smartphonephotography/@akashpoudelnp/stages-of-iife-explained-by-this-picture-201814t175245401z
Read it once
Read my note above. This is not a place for self promotion. Please read the post if you are unclear as to the purpose of this post.
https://steemit.com/travel/@steef-05/vietnam-backpackers-route-for-4-weeks-part-2-of-2
This guy's photography and writing are top notch.
Ah yes wow this is the kind of quality in a travel post I would look for as a Curie curator. The photographs are ABSOLUTELY professional. Really top notch. I think this post was still way undervalued, gave 100% upvote through @r-bot. Thanks man! BTW don't think I have asked you this - are you just dropping off posts for more exposure to the post authors or do you also have interest in becoming Curie curator?
Oh, I don't think I've got what it takes to be a Curie curator. I just happened to spot this post in #vietnam and thought it was undervalued. Thanks for showin' the author some love, Carl!
Hello @humanbot ! Sohail is here! I wanna be curie curator and for that reason I have reviewed many posts and I select one of them which is quite well written.
The Best thing about the post is;
He dare to tell the world , Yes I am an addict human. But there are many eye catching points that I have noticed. His writing skills, shamelessly he wrote every thing, the way he wrote with some pictures so that reader doesn't get bored and in last I have found him a kind hearted suggestions for newbies. He described his every single issue, that he thinks can be killing for others too. So have a look please if you find it better. He has gotten less than $2. and it's just 3 hours ago, he posted it.
Have a look :
https://steemit.com/life/@maverickfoo/confession-i-m-an-addict-for-over-3-months-now
Okay this is pretty funny. I gave him a full upvote from my main account. As far as Curie goes I don't think this would qualify as it is definitely a "steemit related post" and that is one of the main categories of posts that are not eligible. Remember to review the "expanded guidelines" pinned in the main #curie channel of steemit.chat if you have not already.
Ok thank you so much for the reply! I appreciate it and I will try some more...
https://steemit.com/story-300words/@sbamsoneu/my-secret-should-i-tell-my-wife.
this fiction Story Is just too awesome please check on it. I want to be a curie curator
Hi I enjoyed this story and gave it my full upvote. From the perspective of a curie submission, in my opinion, it is "good" but not "excellent". I do not think it would be approved if submitted. Here there is not anything I can point to that is necessarily WRONG with this story - it is original, the images are sourced, and it is enjoyable. There is just a difference between "good/enjoyable" writing and "excellent" writing. I will try to give you a specific example.
There is a saying in writing - "show, don't tell". This author is TELLING us everything that happened. The author *tells* us that they made love. He tells us that they became deeply in love with each other. This is not exciting writing. A good author will *show* us what is happening in the story - the author will describe the events, describe what falling in love looked like, what it sounded like, etc., not just tell you "we fell in love". A truly exceptional author would never need to tell you they fell in love - instead, the reader would experience the moments and feelings and would *know* they fell in love, having witnessed them falling in love.This is just one example I pulled out but the entire story is written like this - again, it is not BAD, and I enjoyed it. I just don't think it is exceptional.
One tip I can give any curator, yourself included, is to think about what your own areas of expertise are. Those areas are where you are going to be most likely able to detect exceptional posting by others. Are you a video game fanatic? Curate video game reviews. Are you a photographer? Curate photography. Are you a science teacher? Curate science posting. Etc.
While I myself do not choose to focus my posting here on original fiction, my reading comprehension of the English language and ability to analyze writing on many levels has lent itself well to curating for Curie. It is why I have a >95% approval rate for my submissions, in addition to being thorough while checking for plagiarism and reposts. But not every curator is going to be able to detect truly exceptional writing particularly if English is not the curator's native language.
wowo you took Out your time to put out all this, thanks i really appreciate. I just learnt something now, and that is to focus on my niche
I hope you drop me a link in the new post :) New Curator Incubator up. Cheers - Carl
SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED - please visit the new Curator Incubator Post:
https://steemit.com/curation/@humanbot/the-humanbot-curator-incubator-and-link-drop-v3-0