Steemit Update [ May 23rd, 2022 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge - Applications Invited for Season 2
We hope you all enjoyed Season 1 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge which has now ended.
Season 2 of the Challenge will be starting at the beginning of June.
Applications are now invited from communities for the new season.
For this second round in June we are again looking for six Communities who would like to take part alongside the Steemit Crypto Academy.
How Communities can Apply
For the Engagement Challenge in June we are looking for six Communities to take part.
The Communities should be well established, with a good, active team of Admins and Mods, and an actively growing community curation account.
We are looking for Communities who already check and comment on every post in their community. Particularly those that check for plagiarism, bot-use, steem-exclusivity, club status etc.
All the Admins and Mods should be following at least #club5050.
The Communities can be country communities, subject specific communities or general communities.
The selected communities will receive increased voting from @steemcurator01 and @steemcurator02, and weekly and monthly Challenge winners will receive extra prize votes from @steemcurator01.
Communities chosen for the Challenge will be expected to run weekly contests through their community account, and also be willing to check and comment on every post in their community.
To apply to join the Challenge, the Community Founder, Admin or Lead Moderator should make an application post including…
- the purpose of their community
- a brief history of their community
- a list of all Founders, Administrators and Moderators including their #club status
- details of their community curation account, how it is being built up and who holds the keys
- details of the community’s current policy for checking and commenting on posts
- details of how the community helps members improve the quality of their posts
- reasons why their community should be selected for the Challenge.
The post should also contain the contact details (Telegram/Discord) of at least two lead people in the community team.
Posts should be submitted by 11.59pm UTC, on Sunday, May 29th, 2022.
The application posts should include the tag #engagementapplication in the first four tags.
The Communities selected for Season 1 are welcome to apply again for Season 2.
Changes for Season 2 - Checking & Grading Posts
During Season 1 of the Challenge we have been strongly encouraging the selected Communities to ensure they check and comment on all posts for their weekly contests.
The minimum they should check for are #club status, Steem exclusivity, plagiarism and bot use.
To help @steemcurator01 and @steemcurato02 to curate the contest posts more effectively we have been looking for community Mods to use a clear, simple and easy to read comment format.
Communities are free to design their own comment formats but it is ideal if all Mods in a particular community use a common, standard format.
The use of green ticks and red crosses can be useful to avoid language issues for the positive or negative verification checks.
The comments by @saracampero in SteemWomen Club and @harferri in Steem Entrepreneurs are examples of good formats.
For Season 2 we want selected communities to commit to ensuring all contest posts are checked and commented on promptly - ideally within 12 hours of posting.
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We also want to trial a new addition to the checking to be done by community Mods.
In the Steemit Crypto Academy the Professors give each challenge post a grade or score out of 10 according to the quality of the post.
We are interested to see the other communities in season 2 of the Challenge to introduce this sort of grading.
Mods should assess entries to their weekly contests and give a mark out of 10 according to the quality of the post and how well it meets the criteria of the contest.
Each community team should work together to decide on the marking criteria to reach a common standard for the marking. They can look to the Steemit Crypto Academy to see how the grading is done there.
@steemcurator01 and @steemcurator02 will use the grades as an additional guidance for voting on posts, alongside #club status.
Remember though - votes are not guaranteed regardless of grade or #club status.
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To reward the extra work involved for the community Mods they will receive votes from @steemcurator01 and @steemcurator02 on some of their checking comments where they are done well and accurately.
Changes for Season 2 - Community Beneficiaries
Please note that the selected communities should not make setting a beneficiary to any related community account obligatory for anyone to enter the Challenge contests.
Changes for Season 2 - Selection of Challenge Winners
For Season 2 we are changing and expanding how winners are selected and rewarded.
Each week we would like all 7 Challenge communities to make a post on their community account announcing the three people who have demonstrated the most engagement in their weekly contest both through the quality of their contest post and the quantity and quality of their comments on other people’s contest posts.
Then at the end of Season 2 we would like the Communities to again make a post on their community account announcing their three overall winners for the whole month. This should not be a list of the winners of each week, but three people selected for their overall performance across all four contests.
We will leave it to each community to decide how they select their weekly and season winners, but they should include in their announcement posts a brief summary of their selection process.
All the weekly winners and overall Season 2 winners, as well as the community announcement posts, will receive extra prize votes from @steemcurator01.
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Congratulations to the winners of Week 3 - @mile16, @patjewell, @yrmaleza.
You will be receiving votes from @steemcurator01 shortly.
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We are looking forward to reading all your applications.
This is an exciting new Challenge to help build engagement on the platform.
We hope as many people as possible will take part.
Thank you
The Steemit Team
This is an amazing development and I can not but look forward to season 2. I also congratulate all the winners. It is well deserved. Well done all.
Hearty congratulations to @patjewell ma'am
I'm so happy for you 😊
Steem on
Thank you for very much! And a huge thank you to you and all the Steemians who supports me! Without you my participation would not have been so successful.
You are such a hard working personality ma'am. You inspire me so much, and i want to say congratulation. More grace
Awh thank you for the kind words!
I can see that you have a lot of potential.
Keep up the writing good articles, supporting others, doing your upvotes and you can be succesful.
Best wishes!
hey hey captain sun!
A big congratulations to all the winners @patjewell, @mile16 and @yrmaleza. You guys did an amazing job especially my dearest ma'am @patjewell, you are a super woman. kudos to you
As for the recent changes to season2, I'm extremely very excited about it because it will motivate a lot of users to work extra hard.
But I also have some suggestions... In season1, there were some Contests that needed a lot of time and finance to carry them out. We should all know that they are a lot of struggling Steemians in here, this means that it will be difficult for them to participate in such contents most especially as votes are not always guaranteed to cover up the expenses in such expensive contest. So I suggest contests should be launched in a way people will not have to spend money before participating in them.... This is my humble suggestion
Season1 was indeed outstanding and I'm glad I was able to participate in all contests. I have also learned alot during this period by engaging my self in a lot of articles and this made me to meet a lot of new buddies
Highly anticipating for season2 and hoping to improve on my engagement activities during this season2 challenge
I would just like to add that there is some elements of FAVORITISM among other communities with exception of the SCA. You will see a well published article will get graded and a lot of comments yet no upvote or encouragement, yet a well known user with high reputation and a lot of SP would publish an article not well written or with small effort put in and you will see massive upvotes this user will get. Please I am not saying it’s done intentionally or selectively, I am simply asking that every article in every community is given a fair shot as the SCA does as we all know votes are not guaranteed but some are getting it every week while some don’t get at all, the whole point is to increase engagements across all communities . Although I was not able to participate this season but I am always going around checking communities and hence this is my OBSERVATIONI look forward to joining in the new season
Thank you all
Hello @jamezmccoy,
Like seriously 😒, I don't know where this word is coming from because I didn't notice any act of favoritism.
I still can't get your point here... Do you know that VOTES WHERE NEVER GUARANTEED?. Now talking about ENCOURAGEMENT... please what do you mean by this statement. I believe that everyone that participated in all the challenges right from day-1 will attest that he/she has received upvotes/encouragement from either sc01 or sc02.. so I don't understand which encouragement you are talking about and who should give the type of encouragement
Based on my understanding, I can say you have gotten everything wrong, my brother. Votes were distributed according to #club status and the quality of the content. So I believe you have miss-understood the whole thing here
You weren't even participating during season1 so I don't think you may understand how it went.
I participated in season1 starting from day1 up to the last day which was day-28. Due to this, I can say I have understood so many happenings during this period and it was pretty cool because all the participating communities indeed work extremely very hard.. my only problem which I earlier stated was the only issue of how some Contests were very difficult to participate by a lot of many users simply because it required us to spend money before participating in such contests which to be me was not good because it scared away a lot of Steemians
Read my whole post before you start making comments- I know upvotes are not guaranteed if you finished reading my post before you start yapping you would see I made mention of that. And cause I didn’t participate doesn’t necessarily mean I don’t perceive things, 3rdly I didn’t say Favoritism is deliberately done. Please assimilate the context of someone’s message before you start giving reply for an issue that is not addressing you. Thank you. I simply made an mention of my observation nothing more. Make you rest
If so then you should have given your own feedbacks and observations by replying to the updated article not under my own comment because we both are simply talking about different observations. As simple as that
That was my mistake.
It's alright brother. Let's all steem on
I will be happy seeing you participate in this upcoming season2 of the engagement challenge
Most users in question are either in club50, 75 or 100. Every one in Steemit knows that is a requirement to some extent
Thank you for your kind words! I am just as proud of you for being a winner in week 1. Africa rock!
I totally agree with you that spending before the writing the article is financially tough on people.
Doing away with selfies and social media is my suggestion. Lots of Steemians are not happy to participate in these challenges where this is required.
Is the goal after all not to get maximum participation?
Yeah that's right ma'am.. this is the more reason why I can understand your rate of happiness right now. I'm so much proud of you
We pray for a positive feedback on this because I have a lot of friends who didn't partake in some Contests as a result of not financially fit to participate in them
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Felicitaciones a los ganadores de la semana 3, realmente trabajos realizados con mucho empeño y dedicación: @mile16, @patjewell, @yrmaleza.
Thank you! Your wishes and kind words are appreciated 🌼
Muchas gracias corazón, vivimos momentos de todo tipo pero lo importante es que pudimos lograrlo .
Muchas felicidades a los ganadores y todos los usuarios que participaron en el Desafío. 💜
If I may suggest, the winner of the challenge in each session should be determined by a person who has the capacity and the criteria for the winner are explained from the start. This way, participants have clear guidelines and are encouraged to showcase the best posts. Thnk so much @steemitblog.
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Thank you very much! Receiving rewards for your efforts goes a long way!
Congratulations to the other winners as well to all those who participated. I salute you!
Best wishes for all the those communities who will be applying 🤞🏻
Congratulations to @mile16, @patjewell, @yrmaleza. You are receiving rewards for your hard work. I will try to be more involved in this season 2 Community challenge. I really like the challenges made in terms of setting beneficiaries to Community accounts.
Thank you for your congratulations🌺
It is hard work to participate in all the challenges but it is indeed worth it. I’ve learned so much in these 4 weeks. You will also learn a lot from participating.
See you 01 June!
Congratulations 🎉👏 dear friend
Thank you!
I will be there. Am going to take part fully
Gracias hermosa
Siii, sería genial que te unas con todo en esta segunda temporada
Tú puede!!!
Me agradan la actualización de criterios para la selección de las publicaciones,. Es bueno saber que ahora se evaluarán conforme a la calidad de las presentaciones. Esto motiva a perfeccionar cada vez más.
Felicitaciones a los ganadores.
Esperaré la llegaba de la 2da ronda.