Steemit is a fantastic platform that earns people rewards for their labor in a system that creates abundance. Creating currency without debt allows the community to prosper. Capping currency creation to an incredibly small amount creates a deflationary currency that will increase in value over time compared to highly inflationary government fiat currencies. Steemit can help us individually and collectively prosper.
Problem Statement
The learning curve on Steemit is remarkably difficult. Many people (especially minnows) will spend hours crafting very thoughtful content and find it receives very few views, very few upvotes, and very little reward. This heartbreaking experience can last for months where the user feels powerless, frustrated, envious, and confused. It appears that Steemit only favors wealth creation for a handful of people and not for the everyone that steps foot on the platform.
Vision Statement
The challenges on Steemit are best met through a community who seeks to help one another succeed on the platform through education, personal connection, leadership, and community curation. By carefully structuring a community people can find the help they need to write better articles, to reach a wider audience, connect with others, and grow their wealth and influence on Steemit.
Mission Statement
The Minnow Support Project is the number one community on Steemit to incorporate training, support, and curation in order to facilitate life cycle growth on the platform from Minnowhood to Whalehood and to continue paying it forward as new members join.
Plan
The Minnow Support Project is part education, community, and curation:
Education: Through a series of educational seminars, content review, training, and individual consultation the Minnow Support Project will support a highly structured curriculum to transition new passionate authors into successful bloggers capable of writing content that catches views, upvotes, resteems, and followers.
Community: It's essential for success that people develop a supporting community. The first goal is friendship and connection with other humans. As that develops projects, plans, companies, visions, and changes to the world can be enacted. Minnow Support Project will provide a friendly community to embrace new members as they make their way on the platform.
Curation: The Minnow Support Project utilizes tiered cyborg curation to facilitate non-spammy, non-shitpost, high quality, semi-manual, community curation. In effect we utilize a series of community bots to facilitate curation. Members can freely use the lowest tier bot to upvote their content. The bot is upvoted by community members using steemvoter to grow the community bot steempower, and the bot vote is followed by the community using streemian to allow the poster to get support from the community. There are timers on the lowest tier bot that force limited community upvotes from one account in a given period of time so that users aren't incentivized to upvote shit content. Additionally, the votes are made through publicly displaying the upvoted content insuring that people that do upvote their own shitpost will be quickly smacked down by the community.
Membership
Starting membership requires the following.
Personality: You have to be a kind and friendly person willing to help and support others. Some crass behavior is expected in a internet community, but be kind or be kicked.
Community: The community gathers at the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty (PALnet) Discord channel: https://discord.gg/HYj4yvw
Bot registration: Use the command, $register username, to register with banjo and minnowsupport. Send the 0.001 steem to both accounts. Type the, $register username, command again and you now have the ability to upvote content on behalf of the community with the, $upvote POSTURL, command. Again, a fast way to get kicked is to upvote shit content. To clarify use your steemit username not your Discord username. This is all that's required to use the @minnowsupport account to vote on your content and have a follow train greet your post.
Membership tiers:
Guest: Anyone is welcome as a guest in the Discord Server. Some crassness is tolerated as it's an internet chat and talk room, but purpuseful rudeness, threats, harrassment, etc will result in fast bans.
Registered: Anyone is welcome to register with the bots. As seen above please enter the registration channel and type the commands. If you feel it's important ping aggroed by typing @aggroed in the Discord room and tell me you have registered and I'll promote you.
Member tier-
Membership requires registering your account with 2 powerful steem curation tools.
Steemvoter.
Streemian.
Follow @minnowsupport
Steemvoter is a program that automatically upvotes authors you support. You must have Steemvoter setup with a rule supporting @minnowsupport. This must be at 100% voting power. If we're all upvoting @minnowsupport it's just a matter of time before it grows.
Streemian is a program that automatically votes on a post after the curator you choose has upvoted a post. In this case we'll all use Streemian to follow @minnowsupport 's curation trail found here: https://streemian.com/profile/curationtrail/trailing/416. There are hundreds of votes being used every day by the bot. If you supply no tags to reduce your voting then you should set the voting power at 15% or less. You can use specific tags like minnowsupportproject or msp if you only want your vote to support MSP related posts.
To get your promotion and the DING you're looking for please send screenshots to @aggroed in the Discord channel. Technically all the witnesses can do this, but you're best bet is @aggroed for now.
Side note- Good tagging
Fantastic Use- Making a post about Peace, Abundance, and/or Liberty. Making a post about the Discord channel. Making a post about things happening in the MPS community or account.
Questionable Use- Making a post about alcohol, tossing a note at the end about something PAL or MSP related, but it's basically a one off in your footer.
Abuse- Using those tags when the post doesn't have anything to do with the group. You'll get warnings... then you'll get bans.
Back to membership
Fantastic Use- Making a post about Peace, Abundance, and/or Liberty. Making a post about the Discord channel. Making a post about things happening in the MPS community or account.
Questionable Use- Making a post about alcohol, tossing a note at the end about something PAL or MSP related, but it's basically a one off in your footer.
Abuse- Using those tags when the post doesn't have anything to do with the group. You'll get warnings... then you'll get bans.
Greeters- Everyone is welcome to become a Greeter. Go through the membership requirements. Then write a post about your experience with MSP. Be sure to include some version of a promise to help users that work with the community.
Post this application publicly in the Greeter section.
Now what happens?
After you have registered you will create content.
Once you have posted you will go into the Discord server and type $upvote posturl
Then @minnowsupport will upvote the content.
Then the rest of the community will follow that vote with their votes from Streemian.
Your post will receive many upvotes and an increase in reward from our community.
Abuse
If you upvote your own shitposts (a post that is poorly written, induces resentment in the community, or has very little content) you're likely to be banned.
Growth within the community
How we grow is a little up to bot technology. Still trying to figure out how to give public access to the lowest voting rights of the bot while simultaneously allowing members that have gone through the public process available to everyone to manually curate with larger upvotes and the possibility of resteems.
PBS style funding
1 day a week at random will be picked as donation request day. People will be asked to donate directly to the community bot towards the benefit of everyone. A post will be made announcing the fund drive and who participated. There are zero required fees or donations to be a part of this completely public organization.
Current Leadership
This is evolving as we are new, but @aggroed, @teamsteem, @ausbitbank, and @canadian-coconut have complete control over the Discord room. @aggroed has control of the @minnowsupport account.
Roll Call
There are currently 268 people who have visited the Discord channel. There are ~100 registered people that range from registered with the bots through witnesses running the project.
chatrooms
General- Talk to folks, put in pictures, put in PAL or MSP related links. Ask questions. Use simple bot commands.
Registration- Please do your bot registration here.
upvote-resteem- All upvotes should happen here. Please check out other's posts as well as your own for potential resteems and follows.
peer-review- Drop in posts that you are looking for constructive criticism on.
bothelp- $help will show you all the bot commands, but please keep this out of general.
conversation-noposting- Is just a place to hang out.
BrandNewHere- is a great place to go to find some help, links, and descriptions about the Discord channel
Greeter-Applications- Anyone that wants to be a greeter should make their post, link the url, and ping @aggroed.
follow-train: Met a friend or think someone is cool? Find them in the follow train. Don't post anything else in there. Just the URL to your steemit account.
Manual-curation- @aggroed is checking posts manually for community resteems and 100% upvotes. Must have achieved Greet status to be able to post in there.
Voice Channel
Don't be an ass. Be good to people. It's not a place to catch a date. Should be fun.
Problems, Questions, Concerns
Ping @aggroed, if it's urgent and I'm not there all Witnesses have full control over Discord.
We reserve the right to update these guidelines as we help make the space. It will stay public and free.
I just re-Steemed this post in the hope that more minnows can see it, and I think it is useful to have it shows up in my own blog.
I've completed the registration processes, done the setup on Steemvoter and Steemain, got the DING from @aggroed.
I've received some help from MSP, got upvoted on some of my posts, so far non of them was considered shity posts.
But the most important thing is, I have a group of good people available to help and teach me, just goto the Discord channels and they are there!
i like how you said
#TheWhalePodProject
followed and upvoted. Keep it up! I'll be joining the MSP soon!
Very nice!! I just started out on Steemit. Are we able to post videos that are not from Youtube? Like Go-pro videos?
I really enjoyed the post and you just got an up vote and a new follower.
This post received a 8% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @kennyskitchen! For more information, click here!
I scrolled through all @minnowsupport's posts to find which hadn't been rando-voted yet :-) Happy to be joining the community, and I look forward to growing together :-)
I just gifted you a @randowhale vote as part of an idea I'm calling #payitforward. As you can see from this image, my 2 $BD payment to @randowhale just turned into an increase of around $5 on your expected payout :-)
PS: Thanks @randowhale
The whole discord setup has helped me hugely in the last 2 days.
Everyone should get behind the minnowsupportproject initiative, it will definately lead to a better educated, tighter , more friendly community.
@tremendospercy
Great initiative. Will check this out.
Very solid information here. Glad to know this.
Thumbs up!
All this looks wizardry like my friend will say........
Will be looking forward to it. Thanks.
Right let's get the rest of the process done.... @aggroed for witness!
lol, I am a minnow....please help :)
when are you not considered a minnow anymore? It's like waiting for never ending puberty to arrive
Streemian won't validate me :(
Error Broadcasting transaction!!
Edit: ok sorted now!
Yes I'm using my 'active' private key, any ideas?
Great update, was fun to see followers of the curation trail on streemian go from 20~ to currently being in the top 10 within 2 days :D
Can't wait to become a bigger part of the minnow community 😊
I am a minnow but hopefully one day I can be a whale ;)
This is great, I'm currently a member, happy to support fellow minnows!
Loving every bit of it!!!
Just resteemed this. Joined PAL yesterday, but this explanation is really helpful. I think the education part of this is the most important! I actually just saw a post today by someone who said they were quitting because their reward was so low; they called Steemit a ponzi scheme. I was lucky because I joined back in February where big posts made 10-100 dollars so when I made $0.50 I was elated. I think it is hard for newbies to see $1000+ posts when their first post makes $1.00. So I totally support this project. Cheers mate!
I am very confused by how steemit actually works but im up for the challange. I want to be part of a community and steemit has the innovation, freshness and proper incentives in looking for. Im going tk dedicate more of mybtime to Steemit.
Sounds cool and very helpful.
I'm here just 2 month, is this newbie enough?
Nice initiative. Im in
I thought my posts were auto-upvoted, because as soon as I posted (or as soon as I looked) my posts already had 1 upvote; and when I click the tab to see the steemian accounts I find my name among them.
How can change that?
wow, I just registered an account and made my first post today. There is so much more to this community than I thought. Thank you for such an awesome post. I will be following all of the advice given in this post.