https://discord.gg/E2fYkeb
Cleaning up
This week has been about cleaning-up and streamlining channels. There is a TON of spam in the channels that do not have an assigned channel mod. The more you don't follow the very simple and fair rules, the more we have to clean up after you. It has reached the point where kicks and banning are happening.
Each room has a description. READ THE DESCRIPTION. If your post does not fit into the description, it will be deleted and you will either be kicked or banned depending on your activity level with the group. If you are kicked, you are welcome back, but that is your final warning before banning. PALnet is a resource to learn and network, not for you to spam your post to 10 different channels without giving anything back to the community.
The general channel only has a couple of very simple rules. DO NOT use the room to upvote, register, or post your non-msp steemit posts in the general channel. We can only assume that you haven't even tried to see what is going on before doing this and we can only assume that you aren't interested in anything other than self promotion. Some of us will kick on site, some of us will ban. Don't test it.
Now for the positives
We surpassed 2000 members this week and of this writing, we are at 2344 members. Not all of them are active but there are hundreds that are in there every day helping new people learn while making new friends and connections.
Two new Delegation bots went live this week. If you delegate 100SP or more to any of the new bots you will be put on a list for the delegation bot. This is hands free, BUT we must be alerted to your delegation. The three bots are
** minnowsupport - This is the original with that $upvote is used with
** msp-lovebot - This is the level 100 delegation bot that you will receive an extra upvote from on all new posts once you are entered.
** msp-creative - This is the artistic lover's bot. It is highly specialized and selected by @sammosk. If you are an artist, musician, photographer, wordsmith, etc. AND you put out constantly awesome art in your blog, this is where you want to delegate.
** We are working on a new read-only channel called start-here. This is where we will be placing guides and information anout MSP and what to find where.
Wrap-up
It's been a busy week, and at times it seems like there's more to do than what can be handled. We're continuing to make strides on improving and creating a better user experience, while still having a load of fun.
If you have any questions on delegation, do not hesitate to find me in Discord https://discord.gg/E2fYkeb
####Disclaimer
I am currently on delegation cool-down as I have removed my delegation from minnowsupport. on Saturday, July 8th around 5pm CST, I will be able to redistribute my SP to a 66/33 split between msp-lovebot and msp-creative.
I also delegate 100SP to minnowbooster.
A thousand times this. Patience is wearing a little thin when the only rule we insist on is no posting in general, particularly $upvote posts. Everyone should know this by now and it gets ignored nonetheless. Ban hammers don't need recharging, they can go all day long and we are not afraid to use them.
Ah, maybe this is why I got such a hostile reception? I went into the chat room, I had a simple question. There was a comment field in front of me, I asked my question, and I got run out of the room for not being in the right place. I will NOT be joining any more chats, I did not realize there was so little tolerance for people trying to learn their way around. I am not a spammer, I am a granny who had a question... I had no idea I was risking getting banned for asking it. I DO appreciate the warning, will stay the hell out of all chats from here on out!
I am sorry you had this experience. As my post said, we do not like steemit posts in general or upvotes. Questions are welcome. May I ask the nature of your enquiry? If you need assistance feel free to private message me on the server.
LOL! You may ask... I will try to remember which question I finally decided to go try to hunt down an answer to. I think I was trying to find out if I had successfully delegated steem to the minnowsupportproject. I followed an article step by step, and when it got to the final thing I was supposed to get a message that said "delegation successful" or something like that, and I got a message that said something else. It is water under the bridge, at the time I thought 10 steem was in limbo, but I don't think the transaction ever went through at all at this point. And I figure at worst I donated 10 to them, and I do appreciate their efforts. But a very obvious "newby friendly" chat area where people are greeted first, then have their asses chewed might be nice, less intimidating - lol!
I agree, and it should not have happened. For that, I apologise.
Your apology is very sweet, it is not even your fault, but accepted and over and done, no worries!
If you ever feel like giving it another go, get in touch with me there.
Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by Shane from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, and someguy123. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows and creating a social network. Please find us in the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.
If you like what we're doing please upvote this comment so we can continue to build the community account that's supporting all members.
Past couple days I've been woken up when venuspcs has used the @everyone alert.
I have turned off notifications for discord, since that fucked up my day both times. I could keep bitching about it, but as far as I'm concerned the problem is solved.
maybe alert the newbies to keep their notifications off
Thanks for that, I'll look to into what we can do. I'm thinking that should be a mod and higher use.
That would be a great idea
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STOPGreat work, keep it up!
Thank you!
Love what you guys are doing with MSP!! Keep it up!! I would like to delegate 100SP to lovebot, but I only have ~130SP... It feels good seeing that number there ;D
As soon as I feel comfortable with the amount of SP I have I will definitely sign up for that, the rewards from MSP have been great so I'd love moaarr!!!
I will at least upvote and resteem for now ;D
Do what you can only when you feel comfortable, we'll be around for quite a while to help. Thanks!
thank you for the information
I am new to steem community. Though I have registered with all discordapp, steemvoter and steemian, I have'nt quite understood how steemvoter and steemian works can you suggest some guide where i can know how they works.... from steem voter I have not received a single vote.. I may be doing something wrong... plz help so that i can rectify... Thank you..
Thanks for sharing this, @swelker101.
Very good to stress the basic rules.
I just joined MSP about 2 weeks ago. And I was a bit confused with what Discord is for. I checked some channels, but it seemed heavy on the spam posts. So I have used the up vote channel, but not interacted much in there.
I have mostly been focusing on creating connections here on Steemit, reading posts and leaving comments.
Now that I have read this post, I will spend more time on Discord and work on creating connections with the active members in Discord. Because I am really grateful for what you guys are doing with MSP, supporting minnows like myself who otherwise wouldn't stand a chance here.
Great post. I feel for you guys - modding Minnowbooster is enough work for me lol
For anyone's who's still well in Minnow status, but would like to contribute to MSP: you can use MinnowBooster to lease some SP for the MSP bots. You will not get autovote from this, but you will be contributing to the success of MSP.
I contributed the 100 SP I could to msp-creativebot and used MinnowBooster to top up my contribution with another 100 for 4 weeks which I will be adding to and renewing.
Full Disclosure: As stated above, I am a MinnowBooster Mod and have 160SP invested in the project. I receive revenue share from upvotes and delegation fees.
Very good work, ill try to follow and interact, because i know its important.
Thanks so much for this!! Im so excited by PALnet and MSP !!!