Foraging Trail Curation Update and List 2 - Mushrooms, twigs, pods, weeds, fishing, hunting, and more - so much foraging on Steemit!
Steemit foragers really know how to appreciate nature's wild bounty! Check out the second report from the Foraging-Trail.
Introduction
The Foraging-Trail is a SteemTrail project to grow an engaged community of people within Steemit, who are interested in foraging for food and crafts. That means making posts and comments where we all can learn, share our thoughts about foraging, and show our field trips, harvests, and what we do with what we find out in nature.
The long-term goal is that people will join Steemit to be part of specific communities – like Foraging - because they are so active, engaging, and supportive. Focused Steemit communities will provide more structure for getting new people connected easily, without drifting away in confusion or frustration.
17 More Days of Steemit Foraging
It's been 17 days since our first report on the SteemTrail Foraging Trail. The curation process seems to be going more smoothly. Authors have generally been good about providing the source for their images and quoted text. That's appreciated! The Foraging Trail tries to discover new authors posting original foraging content and to support the community's regular authors, too. Right now, @haphazard-hstead is the only curator. If you are interested in helping out, join the steemtrail chat channel!
This is the second published list of curated foraging posts. Some great things to note about this list. Look at how many foraging posts there were in the last 17 days – 21 posts from 13 different people, 7 new to the @foraging-trail.
There is incredible value in these 21 posts! If you haven’t seen them yet, I urge you to read and upvote them – they are all still within their 30-day earnings period. And I encourage you to leave some comments. That’s how we learn and get to know each other.
These 21 foraging posts generated 4303 upvotes and $328.70 in total payouts, for an average post payout of $15.65 to authors and curators, with an average of almost 205 upvotes/post.
What about community interaction? These posts had 334 comments, or nearly 16 comments/post on average. How does 16 comments/post compare to what you are creating or reading? And foraging posts are getting shared, with 20 total reblogs in addition to being resteemed on the @foraging-trail page.
Congratulations to all the authors! Thank you, everyone, for your upvotes and support of these posts. Please consider following the many authors whose work is featured here. If you follow the @foraging-trail, too, you can see the curation in real time and easily upvote the curated posts to support our Steemit foraging writers. And you won’t miss some great foraging posts. Don’t forget to comment and upvote comments as well – it really shows appreciation of each other within our community.
Foraging-Trail Curated Posts
Some other accomplishments - Foraging posts are getting a lot of attention here on Steemit, if not as much reward as they should. Some of the individual posts showed up in the top 25 posts by net votes with rewards less than 10 SBD, in the advanced steem metrics series by @ontofractal. And some appeared in the series by @screenname that identifies the most undervalued posts on Steemit.
See previous reports here: Report 1
What's Next
Over the next two weeks, let’s keep the momentum going! We are on our way to becoming the premier foraging community on the Internet. How can you help?
- Start writing about foraging topics and post them with the Foraging tag! You can find out more here and here.
- Support the creators making posts with the Foraging tag by upvoting and/or commenting.
- Volunteer with SteemTrail to help curate posts about Foraging. If you want to help, let us know in the steemtrail chat channel!
- Stay tuned for updates. If you follow @foraging-trail, you’ll see them.
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Note: All author rewards from this post will be used to fund @foraging-trail.
Awesomeness!!! You all keep up the great work.
Thanks! There are some great foragers here on Steemit, from all over the world. There are always interesting posts on the @foraging-trail.
This post has been ranked within the top 50 most undervalued posts in the first half of Nov 27. We estimate that this post is undervalued by $6.62 as compared to a scenario in which every voter had an equal say.
See the full rankings and details in The Daily Tribune: Nov 27 - Part I. You can also read about some of our methodology, data analysis and technical details in our initial post.
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I love this, as we grow we will need to somehow break down different topics and areas of interest. Keep Steem trailing!
Thanks! It's enjoyable to curate the diversity of foraging posts. I'm glad that the foragers on Steemit are willing to share their expertise!
so cool!
Thanks!
Awesome work with the whole project and thank you for sharing to all of the authors!! There is so much knowledge lost about plants which make reading every foraging posts a joy of gaining some of that wisdom back.
I really like the diversity of authors and what they have to share, too. Thanks for the nice comment. I really like that second part. I really enjoy reading all the foraging posts, too. What a great collection of authentic experience from so many parts of the world.