#thealliance Trail
The Curation Trail
Unless you are a heavy manual curator, it is highly suggested, as a family member, that you join our curation trail. Many of you have, and we are all thankful for that. The objective of this post is to get things adjusted for everyone's benefit and nurture growth for all of you the most efficient way possible. Below, you will find suggested settings for people that are on or wish to join our trail:
- In the main settings of Steem Auto, it is advised to put 85% voting power (meaning you will not follow the trail or vote on anyone you have fanned if your VP is lower than 85%). This is, of course, a personal choice.
- Search for #thealliance trail or click here.
- By default, you will follow at a scaled 50% rate (meaning you will vote with half of the power the trail votes on for people).
- Anything lower than 50% scaled is unacceptable as all members start at a 2% rate, meaning you give them at least a 1% acceptance vote.
- For those that do LITTLE TO NO manual curation (voting) a 100% follow rate is very advisable.
- It is suggested to set the voting weight at 75%, this will allow you to retain a minimum of 93% VP should you choose to hand out votes manually on comments or other Steempeeps' posts.
- You may set the time to vote for whenever you wish, I have everyone set at about 20 minutes.
- Should you choose to set a fixed rate, and are a heavy manual curator, I advise a 3% minimum.
- Should you choose to follow at a fixed rate and are not as active, I advise a 7% follow rate.
- Should you not choose to follow the trail at all, remember we are a family of engaging quality creators and curators - all of you have 'passed' so far, we're all glad everyone is here!
Thank You!
I know it may seem redundant to a few and may be a brand new concept to others. It is however, a great way to help each other grow. It is by no means mandatory for anyone to join our trail, family or otherwise. This post is designed to help people understand the trail and how it works. Thank you for reading, STeeM oN my peoples!
I have quite a portly belly now, and moobs - does that qualify me for a heavy manual curator?
The auto vote does work well to fill in gaps when we are busy are just can not find the time to visit posts, and it let's you reach a wider group manually visiting would never be possible.
But it important to fill in, take the time to really appreciate posts and give appropriate upvotes - and of course comment. The comment is king, and for many worth far more reward then the upvote itself.
We had a really good discussion in #thealliance playground a few weeks back, and I was really encouraged by the comments that for some posting on here is more about developing their writing skills and learning, so the comments mean far more then the upvote value - real encouraging comments that help the post writer improve.
We have to balance our time, and share it out where we can. As I family I feel we have some of the hardest working and creative posters Steemit has to offer - but to retain them we need to keep encouraging them, it is easy for many to run out of vote power, personally and I think this will resonate with many - if you can not upvote still try to read and comment - just knowing someone read and appreciated often means far more to the creator then any upvote value.
I still find on a daily basis really excellent posts, they have obviously been worked very hard on deserve to be seen and enjoyed - but for no fault of the author they just get missed. So many people on Steemit are creating great content but feeling nobody likes it - so many would but the simple fact is so much is missed - lost in the constant stream of posts and our own busy lives.
We need now more then ever to help each other, when you find a post you enjoy share it - resteem or use discord channels - tell people this wonderful post you enjoyed exists. It will help every one of use long term, every single person creating content on here is a cog in the Steemit blockchain - if they feel undervalued or ignored they will leave and without people posting this platform we love will crumble and die.
I know you all now, and so many of you I consider good friends. I try my own best to spread around and visit you all one way or another. But you are many and I have only a few hours per day, help each other - find your groups your niche and encourage and grow each other.
#thealliance #witness
Moobs.
I jusst...
I am heading out for a night of obscenely heavy drinking.
I kinda need to erase that... at all costs.
LMFAO!!
... and now, those Mai Tai's were an utter and completely waste.
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MOOBS omg man, I can't stop laughing! One thing I have already set on the docket for HF20 is that for a resteem, we will get to write WHY we resteemed a post. Just a short synopsis for our followers to encourage them to visit a post more. Should help quite a bit for people to get noticed more easily.
Do you even know how much work that will create for me? Damn, I resteem every post and now I will have to leave an extra comment saying why.
I've been HOPING for this forever!
Since at least the early 80's. (or, you know... last fall)
That's a great point and I usually gives comments on all posts I resteem.. Admit I have missed some but I think it's important to let the person know how much I enjoyed the post and why... Just a few words usually makes a huge difference 😉
And it is the best part... Getting comments and giving em. And read posts
Thankyou buddy for such an in depth Comment. And what you say above I totally concur. I do like Upvotes like everybody but the sincere and thoughful Comments mean more to me. It means we are engaging with each other and supporting one another and producing Content that wants to be read by others. To me this is how we keep this Platform growing :)
Btw, if anyone wants to see the model example of what it means to leave Comments of substance that ADD to the discussion just look right above with @c0ff33a :)
I was doing SO well at manual curation, commenting a LOT, reading a LOT, etc, until I had to start working outside the house. Then I just ran out of time, energy, emotional... everything. I am thrilled at having the manual thing to at least fill in the gaps. I'm hoping I can manage to pause it soon and get back to 100% manual, though!!
Wow! Again wow... And then... Wow 😉
Well said and I agree with you 100 procent. Engaging and supporting is soo important, to let people know you were there, appreciated their post and leave a comment of encouragement. May not seem like much but speaking of my own personal experience it means the world.
And like you say, that makes people stay when they get the credit they deserve for their hard work. As always amazing comment. 🤗👏
The only time I ever followed a curation trail was very short lived (it was the #newbieresteemday trail) and I didn't get any curation rewards at all and it completely drained my voting power. At the time I was very new so I had almost no SP to vote with. Do you find that the return on curation rewards is higher or lower if you use a trail? I don't really like following them just because I'd rather manually curate and save my autovotes for authors I've handpicked, but maybe I'll give it another shot if it doesn't go as terribly as it did last time.
It actually lowers my personal rewards because more people are sharing in the 'pool', but I encourage it anyway. If I was a greedy miser, I'd of never set the trail up to begin with ;) There are a bunch of good trails out there on steemauto if that's something you're seriously considering. We are currently ranked #42 (good number, I know) and it's almost all just family members. Of course it is open to anyone. I suggest finding one that suits your style. If that's us, great! If not, there surely is one that does :P
Hmm, well, now that I have a delegation I've been spending a lot of time on here manually curating, so if I'm going to follow a trail, it's not going to be for a couple of months. I also just like having the ability to set up my own friends on steemauto. I've had some pretty good returns that way and it's obviously awesome to support friends. If I end up taking a break on here I'll probably jump on a trail.
I have ZERO idea how any of this works. I keep hearing about 'curation trails' but I honestly had no idea what it even meant, so thank you. I'm still confused, but not quite as much as before. I got it set up, thanks for the easy to follow instructions!
Glad to be of assistance @byn :)
What is the provision for new members who are still students in this community. Like me.
If you feel like you want to start showing the family love, then by all means, you can join the trail now. You've been very active and participating heavily so I feel you will make a good family member once you graduate :)
In theory, all my settings are now correct... although, I pity the bot, on Thursdays.I just don;t think my VOP will be all that storng on PYPT day.
Of course, I may just disable sometime Wed night, and re-enable on Thursday late at night.
LOL I feel ya, that is a kickass day though!
Sorry for being gone so long. Hope I didn't get the axe while I was away and just trying to play catch up. Messaged you on discord and not sure if there is anything else I need to do, but since I've been slacking on steemit in general I've gotten the autovoter set-up so at the least I'm supporting my family that way.
If I need to do anything else feel free to hit me up on discord or just reply here (maybe better hitting me up on discord).