There is a massive amount of voting power, just waiting for you to make your move!
Photo by Suzy Hazelwood
What Are We Looking For?
Simply put, we are looking for the best of the best. No compromises.
We only ask that your post to not be too controversial or too Hive-specific. Any posts regarding hive would need to be understood by the general public and attractive to a wide audience.
Your posts can be about:
- Art
- Photography
- STEM
- Economics
- Health
- Current Events
The Criteria
What we are looking for are magazine quality posts of 1600-2000 words minimum, well formatted, properly cited, and visually appealing. In other words, a showcase of the best Hive has to offer. We also expect that the author will engage their audience in the comments of their blog. Lack of engagement will cause authors to be excluded from future consideration. Posts will be checked for plagiarism and proper citation, and will have their rewards removed should any abuse be discovered.
Need an example of what we are looking for?
Check out this awesome post by @gabrielatravels:
https://peakd.com/hive-148441/@gabrielatravels/let-s-travel-together-138-geamana-the-sunken-village-and-the-toxic-lake-from-transylvania
Why Are We Doing This?
We believe having high quality posts at the forefront increases the value of the platform in multiple ways.
- It turns the trending page into a showcase of some of the best posts Hive has to offer
- It provides an aspirational target for future authors
- It sets the bar for what is considered a quality post on Hive
- It maximizes rewards for our best authors on a periodic basis
How Are We Doing This?
We have a large array of stakeholders with millions of Hive voting power who have generously pledged to upvote the best posts on hive. When doing so, these stakeholders are often giving up potential curation rewards they could have earned by discovering content themselves. Because so much power is being harnessed, we will normally boost one to two posts per day. If we don't find a post that meets our stringent standards, nothing gets boosted that day.
How Does An Author Qualify?
- The author must not have had their post boosted by @trendthis within the past 7 days
- The author must properly attribute any sources, including photos
- We prefer posts to be no more than 24 hours old
- We prefer posts that are original content created for Hive (blogs pushed from Steempress are okay, provided there is engagement on Hive.)
NOTE: The decision to boost posts are made at the sole discretion of the @trendthis team. Creating a qualifying post does not guarantee your post will be chosen. All rules are subject to change without prior notice. This project exists solely to incentivize professional quality work on Hive, and should not be viewed as a lottery system. We pledge transparency in everything we do, and welcome any feedback from the community
Any Questions
Please feel free to drop by our Discord: https://discord.gg/PkFUFMF or comment below. We are more than happy to work with authors to understand what we are looking for and increase their chances of being featured. If the Hive trending were a magazine, you could consider this project the editorial board.
You Can Help!
Follow this account, delegate, or trail its votes. Most importantly, follow and support the exceptional bloggers and posts we discover. If you pledge your upvote, I will tag you in the reply of chosen posts.
@trendthis was founded by @joshman. A special thank you to collaborators @azircon, @livinguktaiwan, @minismallholding, @riverflows. Of course this could not be done without the generous support of our participating Whales, Orcas, Dolphins and Minnows!
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Now that's the kinda post and initiative that will inspire hope for the content creators and give the impetus to put more effort in! Love it! Thanks to the sponsors for supporting this initiative and you for running it!
I was concerned at the bullet point about posting only on Hive but in brackets seeing that posts from Steempress are valid was a relief to see! Seeing as I get 99% of my interaction on Hive anyway, I gravitate towards here anyway!
I'm so happy to see @gabrielatravel's post flying high! She's been buzzing in our DMs ever since, you've really made a difference to her life so thank you 😊
Guess I better raise the bar of my shit 🤣
Of course cross-posted content has some value, but for this effort, the goal is to make the Hive platform more valuable, and our voters willingness to forgo curation rewards by voting exclusive content that aids in that goal.
Appreciate the reply and understand the drive behind it.
Definitely food for thought as I know there's a few who have written 3k, 4k, and I've even written up to 6k words previously (it took me well over a week to write haha).
Tagging in @fionasfavourites @plantstoplanks @traciyork @simplymike @justclickindiva @cheese4ead @foxyspirit who I know have written big posts previously and love getting themselves wet with the long form!
Hi @mickyhavey. Thanks for the mention and invitation to join in. Yes, I'm long winded sometimes and would love to see what I can find to write about.
Appreciate the support and encouragement to step out and participate in this initiative.
You're welcome! Nothing like stepping out from time to time and challenge ourselves or learn new skills!
Thank you for calling me over. I agree. Great initiative and it's good to have some acknowledgement of the work that goes into long posts.
Fingers crossed it lasts!
Thanks so much for the tag, @nickyhavey! I'll definitely keep this in mind when I do another post, extolling the virtues of the Hive blockchain for my WordPress blogging friends (just waiting for the official rebranding announcement of that awesomesauce WP-to-Hive plugin 😊 ), as well as some of my non-blockchain. long form (is that politespeak for, "wicked long-winded... 😂 ) meanderings.
Hahaha, I think you mean wicked AWESOMESAUCE meanderings 😃 And fully agree, that Wordpress plugin is awesome! Is there an update on whether it's rebranding or rebranded already? I'm kinda just going off what you tell me 😄
Awesome initiative and a great way to build a beautiful trending page.
Too many Hive-related posts on trending.
I guess you are looking for blogs and not video content but just in case you do here is my latest #skateboarding vlog.
It's not my best work but it's definitely something different.
We also have a skateboarding community on Hive called @skatehive in case you guys wanna dig it up and support more skate content.
Here is the link :
Let's make Hive the best social media blockchain!
United we stand.
Thanks, at this time we are looking for written articles meeting our criteria, but that does not mean that a video couldn't be incorporated into the blog as a photo would be, it just can't be the main focus.
I got you man.
Big up for the great initiative and the hard work you are doing!
Cheers
I don't know exactly if this qualifies but I'll give it a try:
https://hive.blog/hive-148441/@acesontop/that-shot-of-heroin-called-porn
https://hive.blog/hive-148441/@acesontop/only-in-romania-how-our-fundamental-freedoms-are-being-violated-and-the-pandemic-is-being-transformed-into-a-state-s-business
Thanks.
Thanks, we will check them out.
This a superawesome idea that may motivate great bloggers that in some way feel their content is unrewarded, it's also chllenging given the word count your criteria demands which is gret. I love a good challenge! I wish you good fortune in the wars to come.
Dumb question: Do Spanish posts qualify? Best regards!
That's not a dumb question at all. I would love to cover Spanish posts sooner than later, but we don't have a team in place to evaluate them yet.
Thank you so much for your support Josh! I wish I was able to describe how much means to me but I literally feel like the words would not be enough! Just followed the account and delegated some HP, hope it helps even if it's not that much! ♥️
Please consider our introduction post and whitepaper for @tryeffect
#Tryeffect 's #introduceyourself post was a little over 2000+ words, and in our opinion, pretty well-formatted.
Let us know in the comments on TryEffect Whitepaper if you agree and kindly upvote that post if you do.
Thank you!
I made a post today a few hours back. Does that qualify or its only for entries going forward as of this post :)
Link it in a reply and we will check it out.
I do one of these post every Sunday: https://peakd.com/homesteading/@jacobpeacock/the-fantastica-chronicles-day-234-240
hi, I had music that I want to upload just waiting for this kind of initiative to came out!!
https://peakd.com/openmic/@joseacabrerav/hive-openmic-week-2-happy-earth-day-semilla-en-la-tierra-carlos-chaouen-cover-by-jose-cabrera
this is my last publication in collaboration with the initiative of @votovzla here i talked about my experience in this last month and i think it's great, you should review my proposal, you'll probably be interested. i'll need help with some projects...
https://peakd.com/cuarentenalife/@auelitairene/mi-diario-de-cuarentena-en-hive-colmena-o-tragamonedas-or-or-beehive-or-slot-machine
I did this post yesterday, and while it doesn't quite fit the criteria above (I'd planned to include more images, but ran out of time), I wondered if the topic is something you might be interested it, since it deals with blogging in general (not just on Hive).
https://hive.blog/hive-174578/@traciyork/numbersdontliehowblogging3timesaweekchangedmyblogtraffic-a5vqirh5x3
I'm planning to do similar posts (how to attract readers to your blog, how to network, how to make your blog visually appealing) in the coming weeks, so if this is something that fits, I'll be sure to shout out with links when they're live.
At any rate, I think this is an awesomesauce way to showcase all the talent we have here in the community, and thank you for putting it together!
This initiative is amazing. We need this kind of work in Hive, otherwise will become in a famous people of steemit trend platform. Your work would be to rebuild a comunity and create new generation of blog creators.
I just recently post 4 blogs about an amazing trekking that i did in Patagonia Argentina, surely with all the condition that you claim in your post.
If you like visit it you will like it pretty sure ! and maybe can help me supporting !
1- https://hive.blog/hive-148441/@ignacioarreses/hiking-in-patagonia-five-lakes-trekking-five-nights-in-the-mountains-1-3
2- https://hive.blog/hive-148441/@ignacioarreses/hiking-in-patagonia-five-lakes-trekking-five-nights-in-the-mountains-2-3
3- https://hive.blog/hive-148441/@ignacioarreses/hiking-in-patagonia-five-lakes-trekking-five-nights-in-the-mountains-3-3
4- https://hive.blog/hive-148441/@ignacioarreses/hiking-in-patagonia-five-lakes-trekking-five-nights-in-the-mountains-last-episode
All the photos and words are my own creation.
Thanks a lot for you interesting work.
Peace out !
hey !
this is a great initiative @joshman !
doesn't know if it qualify, but through, it is an art relative post :) A painting that I really enjoyed for different reasons, I let you see..
https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@anttn/these-boots-have-got-a-long-history-and-it-ends-during-this-lockdown-in-a-rather-absurd-way-watercolour-painting
I'll consider delegating some HP and going for a follow 😀
be well !
Thanks for sharing, I will check it out.
...it's a pleasure ! glad if you enjoyed :)
Yess I can't miss one.
@xxxxxxxxxx @innerhive
okay dude, if you think this moves the needle, do your thing.
Making backroom deals for votes is not what Hive is all about, eventually you'll figure it out.
Okay, well perhaps you are misunderstanding something here. Can we chat?