hey, @melinda010100:
Well, then, welcome to musing. I'm not official or anything, but it seems like an appropriate thing to say. :) I've only been actively coming here for a few weeks myself.
As far as I can tell to this point, things are fairly straightforward. Musing curates (apparently they have community managers who are doing that), though I have no idea what their criteria is, which I keep meaning to look up if I could find a white paper somewhere.
Their upvotes come primarily on answers (some questions will get them), so my suggestion is to find questions you would like to answer and give one that is more than just yes or no. They tend to like as much information as possible. In my case, just like in commenting, I try to fully cover the topic, which might mean anticipating additional questions were this actually a conversation.
There's a lot of answers every day, so it can take a while for the musing upvote (they can run anywhere from four to 24 hours out, depending on volume).
They are currently upvoting in 1%, 3%, 5%, 10% and 15% increments, with the rare 20%. It's also possible an answer won't get any upvote, which I'm not sure why, other than it gets overlooked, or they have a quota no one knows about, or some other reasons. My guess is, they get overlooked.
Engagement here isn't much yet. Most people are posing questions or giving answers and then not really following up on them. It's not the easiest thing to do, but I'd like to try if I can figure something out.
Thank you. I knew I could depend on you for a thorough answer. What is my part here? Am I supposed to upvote your answer somewhere, or is it all just up to musing to give out Rewards? It appears that there are lots of crypto questions. I don't have many answers for those. Why doesn't somebody ask how to make chocolate chip cookies? I'd be much better at answering that sort of thing!
It's similar to anywhere on the blockchain—you can upvote if you like. Best to do it before musing does because the curation percentage tends to be higher. I think musing would love for us to be voting up people's answers.
If you look along the left hand side of the page, there are some of the more popular categories listed. Food is one of them. However, you'll want to pay attention to when the questions and answers were made so that you're not voting on something seven days old or older. As far as answering older questions goes, I think that's perfectly fine.
re: I don't know why there aren't more baking questions. My guess, is the majority of us here so far don't bake. Which is probably why the question should be asked!
Next question... do your comments in Musing count in EL totals?
Well, yes, and no. Here's the deal. Since they show up as comments on Steemit (unless you choose to publish to blog), the total comments (C) and people spoken to (PS) count, but because the answers are stored on musing, the CL doesn't count, except for the link that shows up (View This Answer On Musing.io.)
Now, any subsequent replies, like the ones we've been doing back and forth here show up as comments, so they're counting to overall comment totals and lower level replies (CR).
So basically, it will look like you did some commenting, but didn't say very much, even though it's likely you wrote more to answer the questions. :)
Ah. It really is interesting to see how all these different sites work! I'm not finding this one a good fit for me.Many of the questions I've seen are awful.
Are you making money here? Does it payout into your wallet?
I am earning, actually, about two to three times more than I would normally do on Steemit (that's including a curie—otherwise, I'm doing more). With answers paying out at an average of 3 STEEM (in my case, don't know how others are doing in comparison), it's better than the less than 1 STEEM I typically get for a post, and I answer faster than I can make a post.
There are a lot of awful questions. There are some that are good, and those are the ones I try to stick to.
It's not going to be for everyone, though, and some of us who are here regularly probably aren't a good fit for it, either. It'll be interesting to see where musing goes in the coming weeks and months. Of course, I'm sure a lot is going to depend on just how quickly the crypto market turns around.
That is good money! I'll spend more time looking it over once I get this Thanksgiving dinner behind me! Right now all I can think about is sweet potatoes and stuffing. Do you have big Thanksgiving plans?