Steem Representative Weekly Report #33rd from [11th-18th Dec, 2024]

Compliments of the season @everyone and welcome to my blog as I present my 33rd report as the Steem Representative. It is yet another week for me to report on my activities on the platform for the week of 11th-18th December 2024.

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It was another week of work with heads high while trying to scale a balance between offline commitments and business as usual on Steemit. This still was not without some hitches with frequent unannounced blackouts and low voltage which caused my internet connection tobe unstable. I can say it was still a challenging week for me with some health challenges but I'm glad I'm getting stronger 💪.

That said, below I will share my different activities carried out across the platform within the above-stated period of time.

Community Curator for December

It was week 2 as community curator for December. We had a hitched free ride searching on quality content across the communities and on personal blogs.

As the team leader, I had to prepare a Google sheet for each of us to input data to be used for our weekly reports. I equally continue to guide my team members to perform their duties diligently without favouritism. I participated in selecting the best nominated posts of the week for the report.

I had 3 days of performing my duties as a curator. I supported 76 articles from different authors across the platform from different countries. I equally supported comments that added value to the content.

Steemit Promotion.

I always try to talk about Steemit to anyone that I come across. For this weeks promotion activities, I talked about Steemit to 04 friends at a graduation party. I assured them to assist create an account and also guide them through on the platform if they are interested in blogging. None of them has shown interest so far in creating an account yet. This goes with the adage that “…you cannot take a horse to the stream and force it to drink water”. I do not want to pressure people into creating dormant accounts. I want those who are Willing to blog, and I mentor them.

As usual, facebook is one of the platforms I used to promote Steemit because I have over 2.8k followers but unfortunately, there are lots of scammers on Facebook. It makes it difficult to gain the trust of my Facebook followers to sign up because they believe anything that has to do with cryptocurrency is fake. Most of them I approached were once victims of cryptocurrency scams on Facebook.

As usual, I used my WhatsApp status to promote Steemit to my contacts. These days it is difficult to get genuine bloggers who are willing to blog without having a quick cash out mindset.

Activities in Steem Cameroon Community.

It is a routine that every week we meet online and discuss how to better manage the community. We are still looking for means to bring in active and vibrant admins willing to work and build a vibrant community. As per our last meeting, we realised that we could not change the admins because the community keys that were used to add admins were missing because @saxopedia saved them in his laptop and thieve-broked into their house some years back and went away with the laptop. We are still seeking for assistance on how to go about it.

We also discussed about means to bring inactive members together. We believe “…we are stronger together”. So far, some of the old inactive members are back though their activities on the platform is timid.

I had talks about steemit with some inactive old steemians while at the graduation ceremony of @saxopedia. I had to motivate them to come back active as usual. This was in the persons of @peacemakers, @muluhpenn, @tjean, and @nforyembe. They showed interest to come back active and I hope they adhere to their promises.

As a plagiarism leader and actively fighting all forms of abuse on the community, I had to ensure that content creators create quality content free from any form of abuse on the community. 1 plagiarised content and 2 abuse of copy righted images was recorded. The authors were cautioned to refrain from the act. We hope steemians continues to be creative in ideas and create plagiarized free content and proper use of non-copyrighted images.

I also caution steemians especially newcomers about clicking on phishing links and operating 3rd party DApps. This is because they risk losing their Steemit accounts to hackers. I also informed them about “account recovery” within 30 days if not they stand to lose the account to hackers.

Content Creation.

It was another week for me to share content on diverse topics on the platform, but I had unannounced blackouts and low voltage that caused poor internet signals. I had to share only the lifestyle content. I shared a total of 04 articles, including my report.

I equally engaged with other Steemit users by commenting and giving feedback.

Support Other Content Creators with @chant Account.

I used my effective Steem power of over 58k to support steemians with quality content on the platform.

Preference was given to authors writing creative and quality articles across the platform. Over the week, I reached out to 93 accounts and upvoted 118 posts with a CSI score of 15.3.

At this juncture, I have come to the end of my presentation of my weekly activities report.

Regards!