RE: The End Of The Daily Pick Of Hidden Gems (featuring @dragonslayer109 as author)
You guys have provided a great service with this. I especially have admired how focused you have been on finding some good posts every day. Back when I started the Spotlight newsletter, before July 4, we weren't having these frequent payouts. What you have done, curating and scooping up good posts that need attention right away, has been much harder.
I appreciate your mention of Project Curie. I think curation efforts are adding new value to Steemit by directing rewards to where they are most needed and deserved. However, I do not think that Curie spelled the end of your series; both could continue, if you wanted. There are more good posts than we can find.
Being rewarded for finding these posts is another story. I have seen so many cycles already where certain kinds of posts are making money and then it slows down or stops as the interest moves elsewhere. Some things that used to be popular are not as successful anymore. Steemit evolves very quickly and we cannot really know where it will go next.
I invite you and anyone else who enjoys curating to submit worthy posts to our #curie channel on Steemit.chat. We will be glad to pay you finders fees for any posts that we are able to upvote. Our project's budget is fairly lean, but we want to make sure to reward anyone who contributes posts.
Thanks again for your Daily Picks, which have made Steemit better.
@donkeypong thank you for your reply. I love and support your project a lot. The daily pick has come under fire due to you guys finding the posts and upvoting them making the posts no longer "hidden" according to haters. I am starting a new project that will hopefully be better than the daily pick as I will be moving away from promoting individual posts but rather an author to allow them to get more followers and get them seen thus allowing for all their future posts to get more value on them. SO it isnt really a stop to the hidden gems but more of an update to help people out better. I will be posting about it to as some people would like to see and understand how it will work. Project Curie didn't end my hidden gems but has directed it to something that could help out much more.
As a minnow, I appreciate what you all do for invisible content. My attitude since finding Steemit has been that we can only control our own output. Who sees it, who values it, who upvotes it... that's beyond my control. But even if no value is added to the platform, my simply being here, motivated to write on a daily basis, that creates value for me, individually! That's huge, and something I didn't have before. I also believe that consistent effort, the daily human action of writing and reading others' work, will pay off. How much and when, again, beyond my control. But I know it will.