Fantastic post. Of course you had my attention just with the picture (is that a 6.5 creed round by chance?). Isn't this what the whole premise of Hive was about?
I for one follow a similar pattern when voting. While I'm not on any of the larger curation teams, I do manually curate my dolphin sized votes every day, and adjust my voting power accordingly to the quality from 10%-100%. I mainly stay to the communities that I have interest in, and folks that I know make quality posts often and I follow. I get really tired of looking at spam and garbage. I don't really care for the one picture posts, as you said unless it's really, really, really good, or has at least some story behind it. I generally quickly un-follow people that just slap a garbage post up every day for whatever reason.
As a photography buff, I do like to see the camera and settings detail if it's a photography type photo.
Six-five yes, well spotted. A slinky svelte looking projectile huh? That's what gives it it's ballistic properties though I guess..
I'm with you Kris, I get it...I spend a lot of time manually curating and voting and of course the OCD and curangel projects add some weight to my own voting power so I work hard at being consistent and to look for quality. Scrolling endlessly through feeds is something I do, have done a lot, and it's not fun. A little effort goes a long way and that moment I drop the link to OCD or curangel feels good.
I'm not against the camera settings either, it has a place...But a single photo and text body made up of camera settings isn't going to get curated. It's not hard to add 150 words and a little story to a photo right?
Thanks for your comment...Also, you'd make a good curator I think. Just saying.
Yes, totally agree on the single photo and only camera settings. I also don't like when people try to milk out a trip or outing that would be a great set with a little story, and instead post one pic a day from obviously the same area/setting. Just a pet peeve, I've had a few of those folks I stopped voting on completely or just give a minor bump. They waste their efforts on a few one or two dollar posts that combined would likely have generated ten or twenty.
...and not necessarily against curating a group/community, just don't know the details, commitment required, or how to get started.
Nutbaggery! Also a pet peeve of yours truly. (I have a few Kris). 😀
On the curator thing...I'm not in the servers on Discord much because I hate that space, but I'll keep my eyes open for anyone looking for curators. Maybe @acidyo might be able to point us in the right direction. I'll ask him on Discord.
There's not much to it...Scour feeds, look for quality undervalued posts and drop the link into the appropriate place on Discord within the rules and guidelines of the project. Consistency is the key, keeping quality up also, in my opinion at least. I'll ask Acid.
EDIT: Message to Acid sent.