Yea, curating is a time consuming job. Since last three years am doing this with some Curie power in the music side of things on the HIVE chain. Eats a lot of time, and not necessarily I get the motivation from those I upvote, but by the intrinsic motivation I get from the Curie team allowing me to define my own rules whilst being able to give up to 3$ votes. While I started to distribute votes as much as possible, I slowly transformed towards giving 10 to 15 votes per day, instead of 30 or 40 'tiny' votes. Reduces the time a bit, but to be honest, I still open many posts I dont vote at all. Scan at least 50 to sometimes 100 posts a day, listen to self composed, and cover material, and decide which ones deserves more attention and a vote. Recently I started to place more comments to the curated posts as well, more time, but also I get user posting nice work, to communicate. Many at the HIVE chain, post their stuff and dont go to other users post to start some engagement. But even when I start the conversation, at least 50% of the users are not taking the time to reply, or come back with a stupid reply like 'thank you', while I usually put a question in my comment. When a user ignores me for some time, not reacting to my comments and questions, I kinda write off that user for further votes, even if the content is good. In the end HIVE (as well as LEO) will only be successful when the community is engaging. I rather give the 3$ vote to someone who is active in the community, want to engage, but may not have the best posts. Those who have excellent material to post, but are not engaging at all, I kinda started to 'hate' and are left out in my curation rounds more and more.
Am not sure if we have some curator teams in our LEO community. Thats maybe a way to distribute some of your vote value whilst the work to hunt for the right posts (and comments) is distributed as well. In the end, thats the only possible way for the longer term, since many stakeholders will only spend a little of their time to LEO, or HIVE. Large votes are cool, but when the number of posts are increasing, the result will be many quality posts (and users) will be left out of a vote. I've seen too many quality content creators leaving the platform after not seeing any traction on their work. Sure, some of them should've done more on the engagement side of things, but others who done good as well on engagement, still saw their posts (and comments) to go unnoticed.
Though I can say so much more on my past experiences, I'll stop here to make sure the comment fits a block at HIVE (yes, there is a limit!). Hope TORUK has some great time at LEO. Please say HI to him from me LOL :)
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Thanks a lot for a rich, meaningful comment. You raised many valid issues, and many problems.
Project "Toruk" will not be here permanent (I think), it's more like the off-road turn for fun & entertainment, for the coming Holiday season (enough of that COVID !)
I already see that I was wrong in hopping it will save me tons of time.
There are so many good posts, so in order to feel I'm doing those token-rich hits right, I still need to do much reading.
To make 7 HITS a day, still must read 40-50 posts, maybe more, to be confident I have not overlooked the more valuable targets.
Only 2 days have passed. Will have some more clear outcomes after a week or two.
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I did realise that already, meaning, not permanent :) Its how we roll here. From time to time we make adjustments. Cool you're doing that, since as you started your post: Even though you like something, when its in repeat mode, the task itself can become boring (I still very much appreciate the old fashion factory worker...that must be so hard to do the same task all the long, year in year out).
Reading... I would suggest to start scanning. For sure those posts of users you kinda know. New user post may require a little more attention at first. But scanning less work. And when done kinda like speed reading style, the time spend on a post can be much less. Sure, this will result in some posts not grabbing your attention, but you cant continue to spend 10 hours a day curating. At one point in time this will worn you out and you may drop everything.
Thats the thing. I had exactly that 'force' with me, but fortunately I left that behind, for the most part. A super post can be missed on day, always a chance to catch the next one. No user is entitle to get any fat vote, if that user gets demotivated after 1 or a few good posts. In my view, you dont have to give your votes to the best posts each single day. But would be super cool over time you can reward those users and posts that give value to the community. So please dont be too hard on yourself and only feel confident enough by a round of curation when believe you hit the top x posts for curation. Its not an issue to miss some cool posts. In the end you'll get to know these users since the chances increases over time you'll notice posts from that user and can give some votes when you found them. If notice some post from a user that is somehow ok, new user to me, I look in the history of posts....when I see a better one that qualifies for a cool vote, I either give it to that post in history or a smaller vote to the lower quality one and encourage the user through a comment to up the game again :)
Time will tell indeed :)
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