Mhhm, excellent initiative. Though I have to admit I have not supported your deadpost initiatives so far I can testify to the positive effect curation-focussed groups have on the outlook of minnows who are working their ass of.
I always try to keep resteems to a minimum unless the ideas discussed are further-reaching in scope than an isolated idea. Hmm how do I put this? Posts that highlight censorship in an evidence-based way are one of my resteem priorities.
That said, I have been a huge fan of @dailysneak and their approach to curation. They have largely automated the curation process, meaning there is a document prepared where curators can go and fill out all the relevant fields for application - already written in markdown. And @dailysneak "just" have to check the application for formatting, dead links and the content - vs sitting there and writing it all from scratch with markdown.
Dailysneak also offers incentives for curators, which has worked out really nicely because they project is growing organically, instead of being overly hyped through bid-bots. This may come in tandem with less steep growth, but the growth is genuine and solid, because the project is about genuine steemians doing hard work, vs some upvoting-for-SBD scheme.
I do not shy away from the work - making a new post highlighting older underappreciated ones is the way to go I think. Often times I would even love to resteem something where the payout is long done, if I could only add a comment on top to it - like on facebook for examle. This I think is ample reason enough to make a new post with the old content, pointing to it with an easily digestible introduction for readers browsing that curation edition who may want a taste of the article before they commit to reading.
Lastly, having several returning guest curators will eventually get the usual readers of the initiative a feel for emphasis - some focus on undervalued art orlifehacks, while I tend to focus more on paradigm-shattering ideas, forbidden concepts, or excellently sourced articles tackling a common misconception of the public.
Clustering linked articles in this way can help bring likeminded people together, as several "similar" content posts show up in the same curation round.
Will fully support this initiative here as you have repeatedly proven that you mean what you say when you talk about the importance of spreading the wealth and supporting those who have less stake than ourselves. I think I have some reading-up to do. <3
I don’t fully understand the curation process...so with daily sneak the curators take turns and have their post of the week? How many curators are there? Are you involved in it? Who runs it?How much upvote do the curated posts get? I should learn more, I was nominated before but I get so busy and lose track of things.
Feel free to link me to a good description,
It sounds like your idea of curation is what I think most of us believe curation SHOULD be. I wish there were many initiatives like OCD that spread the work of curation through delegation but also focused on certain niches so we could all have our favorite curation group based on the kind of content we like.
I personally feel that having curation directly monetized deincentivizes good curation as many people who would seek out and upvote what they like instead try to upvote what will earn them money, even when it’s pennies. Instead curation posts should get support from users the same way other posts do. It’s important work but it only deserves payment when it’s done intentionally for the benefit of the community. That’s my unpopular opinion though :-D
Thanks for the support,come find us in the new chat. I just posted a link today.
Let me make that simple for ya, I know you are a busy man.
Anyone can curate the daily sneak, there are no regular curators, just people who come time and time again to curate. You could easily curate as guest curator yourself, and earn SBD rewards for doing so. It's a win win to all involved and the crew behind dailysneak is amazing.
I have curated like 4 times or so, been doing it once a week lately, highlighting many things that interest me of Steemians who need more reach and have gone too unnoticed for their amazing level of craft.
It is run by Joseph Savage, the guy behind Steem Basic Income. Any author who gets mentioned in the daily sneak gets one share in Steem Basic Income sponsored by sneakyninja, like you have when I mentioned you in my first or second edition.
The upvotes are still somewhat small, however the project is still in its infancy. But seeing what I have seen from Joseph, he is definitely one of the guys with the heart in the right place. And I want to support the project wherever I can. It facilitates great networks and oddly feels like a counter movement to the Spam and bitbot mania going on at Steemit promoting shitposts.
While I completely agree that monetary incentives do not always come in tandem with quality submissions, the vibe of the project motivates me to give it my best. Partly because those guest curators before me have raised the bar so high. I am part of a few regular upvote schemes, like qurator and so on. And so far the work of dailysneak and steembasicincome is my favorite. They have managed to walk the line between rewarding contributions and keeping the submissions top notch.
This, as I said, is largely due to the smart approach. A google doc has been prepared, dailysneak asks its guest curators to submit in markdown format, saving them a lot of time to polish submissions. Instead they go through your submission, throw out what posts they deem unworthy of featuring and publish the rest. I have sometimes submitted 5 posts only to see 3 of them make the cut. In this way the balance tilts towards quality, and the curation goes through another quality filter.
The details are written in every dailysneak post. But since you mentioned it kinda fell under your radar, here is the one that mentioned ya.
https://steemit.com/curation/@sneakyninja/the-daily-sneak-25-january-2018-with-guest-curator-paradigmprospect
cya in 5 ;)
holy crap, thats brilliant and i know the guy, hes in our chat!
i feel like an ass for not learning more before hand hahahah
Why don't you use that energy for something constructive instead and find a working method of cloning us. That way we could get it all done way more efficiently ;)