Some days ago, I published an article detailing while I really feel like you should get invested with the CTP-token. Even before I had written the article, I heeded my own advise and kept buying CTP-tokens on a daily basis. I tried to do so without pumping the market too much but that also meant it was really hard to get a meaningful amount - there are just so few people willing to sell their tokens. My goals were to get to 10,000 CTP this week and to 20,000 CTP by the end of February. With the current price movement, I think it's now safe to say that I didn't make the 10,000 and I probably won't manage the 20,000 either. Just look at the spread right now, buying meaningful quantities is just super hard:
But this article is not about me complaining about how tough it is to reach my staking goals but rather about what I intend to do with said stake. So far, I've been following @ctpsb's curation trail with my curation account @khazrakh.cpt. With now 9,116 CTP powered up on that account, I feel like it's time to start manual curation with my stake. Why am I going to do this?
To make things clear right away, I don't object auto-votes/following curation trails. I follow them myself obviously and of course I'm grateful for everybody that gave me their auto-vote. Knowing there are at least some votes coming no matter how my article goes is a great feeling of course. Nevertheless, in my opinion, manual curation is where the true value of our rewards system is sitting. I've made that rule for myself, that I'm only voting stuff that I've actually read. I mean we are obviously all looking to earn some rewards with our articles, but me personally, I want to get read as well. If I found out that nobody actually read my articles and I was just voted by bots, I would be very likely to just stop publishing or at least I'd reduce the effort put in tremendously.
CTPtalk frontend and I will try to target articles recently published in the New tab instead of articles from my follow stream.To me, that's the key point: The higher quality the articles published on this platform are, the more valuable they are to the people reading them and the more people will actually come back to read more. So if we want to promote quality content, we have to make sure it is rewarded but also that it is actually read before being rewarded. So starting tomorrow, I will remove my follow to the curation trail with @khazrakh.cpt. Instead, I will follow @khazrakh on articles tagged with ctp but I will also do separate curation with @khazrakh.cpt. This part of the curation will be done through the
The issue with just following your own main account is that this leads to a situation where you always vote the same people. Consequentially, most of the tribe's votes just go to articles that were lucky enough to have the right tag(s) when they got their upvote. By doing some of the curation through dedicated voting in New, I hope to redirect some of my voting power to articles that were dedicated to CTPtalk. This should help to bring more value to actually posting with CTP in mind instead of just adding the tag for additional "free money".
Obviously, everybody is free to decide what to do with their votes themselves, but I can only ask you to consider doing the same as well. Getting some small upvotes can make all the difference between getting more involved or just leaving the platform behind for new authors. If you take the time to even leave a comment, this often times will be all it needs to keep an author going and try to deliver another quality article as soon as possible.
While I'm at it, I want to make a case to change the curation reward system to linear curation just like LeoFinance has done. There, the rewards are always split 50:50 between the author and the curator, no matter when the vote took place, no matter who voted before or afterwards. I'm not saying we need to move to a 50:50 split, but having linear curation rewards is a huge boon to the platform in my opinion.
Without it, the best course of action is to vote as early as possible on articles that will fetch as many votes as possible afterwards. This leads to a situation where it's a lot better in terms of returns to just auto-vote authors that you know will catch a lot of votes and/or follow a curation trail that takes care of that for you. With a linear curation reward system, there's no need for that any more. Ever since that change, LeoFinance manual curation and engagement has gone through the roof for the site. Because of that, I can do my curation once a day and vote articles (or comments!) that I feel deserve my vote, no matter if they were published 5 minutes or 5 days ago.
I'll do manual curation for CTP no matter the system we use for it, but I feel like it would be an (hopefully) easy to implement change that should help to boost interaction throughout the community by a lot.
Either way, I'm really happy I found this great community and I'm looking forward to interacting with all its members and to providing value for it through my manual curation. Things are going fast both for CTPtalk but also for Hive in general right now. It's up to us to make it the best experience possible for everybody and to me, that means reading and interacting with articles as much as I can!
And that's all from me for today. Thank you all for reading and see you next time!
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Amazing post man! Of course we have all a limited time at our disposition to actually read posts and comment on them. It's the same for me. However I try to read at least 5 posts a day and give a meaningful comment to them. This is my way to continue to learn new things every day. I also like to watch some videos on the blockchain. You are right that we tend to follow the authors that we like and I believe it's a good idea to check out new authors as well from time to time.
Regarding the linear reward curve, I'm a big fan of it. When you don't have to worry about when you drop your votes, it gives a totally different meaning to curation and values it much more. That is one of the reasons that I started to post much more on leofinance because I get valuable comments from people who actually read my posts. Their upvotes being worth the same whether they give them 5 minutes after publication or 3 days after that. In the end I believe that upvotes are great to have but what motivates people to actually write posts are the comments that they get...
This is 100% percent true for me and I think for a lot of others as well. I love being hit be the big curation trails just as much as everybody else, but posting an article and getting a dozen replies, each commenting on a different aspect of what I've written, that's what really motivates me!
When I started to publish through LeoFinance, the LEO I got was tiny in comparison to my Hive rewards and the rewards I've gotten on Publish0x. But the engagement was a completely different beast. Before LeoFinance, often times the only comment I got was from HiveBuzz...
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I personally am all in for linear curation . I hope it comes to CTPtalk along with the new UI .
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i use the same account for everything. With the amounts i have, it's not bad and i reward users basically with everything that i got all together! But i get you! with 20k you are considered a whale in ctp? i don't recall!
Anyways i think at the end of the day you will need to use some autovoting services given your time and many accounts. Upvote me, kind sir :P
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I'm not really sure about the classification, but then again it's all just names anyway. I just feel like I should use the stake I have to promote content I want to see instead of just blindly following a trail.
That said, I enjoy your content and if I don't miss it, I usually vote all your articles :-)
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I think what ctp has going on is really awesome. I tried doing their course on their site but the videos would often not give me the "finished" button which you can't move on to the next video without. so I barely got past the first couple videos. waah.
Which video was it? Need to make sure to watch the video through to the end for the 'completion' button to show....I'll tag @blainjones in here too so he can take a look.
ooh man it was a few months ago. I should have gotten in touch, you are obviously on top of things =) I'll try again and tell you.
Ahhh ok, yeah let me know. We did a few fixes recently, so wanna see if the issue is still there. Works fine for like 80% of our customers but then 20% or so can't seem to find the completion button.
Thanks for letting us know tho!!
Mh, that's not good, maybe @jongolson can look into that some time?
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he's on it =) hey this is random, have you checked out neon district yet? I'm really digging the art style and the game seems to have a lot of promise.
Oh wow, thanks for reminding me! I had started to check it out when my internet went down and completely forgot about it afterwards! I'll take a good look at it tomorrow.
You perked my interest. How can I try it out?
ah sorry for the late response, portal.neondistrict.io is the games site
no purchase necessary
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A very warm welcome to the CTP community.
A linear curation will be nice and I guess it might be implemented on later stage, tough it is not in "to do list" but I guess if community keep asking it will be finally implemented.
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Thanks a lot!
Hope you are right on linear curation, I think there's definitely demand for it :-)
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