Application for Steem4Nigeria Community - Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 9

Introduction

Our community ( #Steem4nigeria) is glad to read through the steemitblog page with updates about the opening of applications for season 9 of the engagement challenge on the platform. We believe at this time we are ready once again and we'd like to make an application for the engagement challenge as we expect the upcoming season to commence in a few weeks' time. Our last participation as a community in the season was in Season 5 where we hosted a series of great contests with efficient entry grading patterns as required. I will have to brief us in detail on all that is required as expected by the organizers of this engagement challenge.

Steem4Nigeria's Purpose

The purpose of our dear community #steem4nigeria is the same as found in our previous applications which shows a long-standing positive status in which we believe. The Steemit platform has continued to allow participants and users in the system to learn and earn with growing demands to be independent given to the arrays of initiatives and projects it develops over time. Most importantly, our dear community was created at a time when there was no country community that portrays the image of the official standing of the Nigerian community in the platform but rather individual communities created by Nigerians.

There was an absolute need to attend to newbies who on a daily basis find their way into the platform as well as existing users who needed a national front and community to call their own. This was solely created to give Nigerians an official home on steemit with the propensity to support users at various levels. Therefore, it is a home for everyone on the platform and most importantly for Nigerians in steemit irrespective of their locations across the globe. Over time, since its creation, we have reached out to foreign friends on the same accord.

The History of our Community

History was made sometime in February 2022 when the creation of this noble community was nursed and hence came into reality. #Steem4nigeria was created on the 12th day of February 2022 and the first community introduction post was also done on the 15th of February 2022. Right from its inception of the community creation, the day-to-day activities of this community have been controlled by the founding members, who also were doubling as the community moderators.

After a two-month running of the community activities, the community launched a moderator recruitment application on the 11th of April 2022 that saw the onboarding of two moderators and then it was upgraded to five. This did not remove the active role played by the admins/founders in their continued support to keep the community stable.

Over time, in a bid to continue with the steam required to fire up the community from all cylinders, the administrators at that time decided to overhaul the moderator list and hence an application was launched on the 21st of February 2023 which was about a year later of community creation. This time, the community onboarded 8 moderators and a CR. And in this list was a mix of new MODs and returning MODs.

Steem4Nigeria's Admins/MODs

The community admin listed below is the founding member of this noble community who conceived the idea of its creation. This also shows a tabular representation of the Admin, Lead Moderator, and Moderators with their active member roles and club statuses.

User	Role	Club Status	Nationality
#xkool24	Admin	#Club5050	Nigerian
#simonnwigwe	Lead Moderator	#Club100	Nigerian
#lhogic	MOD	#Club75	Nigerian
#jueco	MOD	#Club5050	Nigerian
#manuelhooks	MOD	#Club100	Nigeiran
#okere-blessing	MOD	#Club75	Nigerian
#josepha	MOD	#Club75	Nigerian
#richy20	MOD	#Club75	Nigerian
#ruthjoe	MOD	#Club75	Nigerian
#goodybest	CR/MOD	#Club75	Nigerian

With the full list of community management, we are actively ready to respond to all articles published in the community seamlessly without concerns. The capacity has already been tested and deployed before this application is made as articles are checked on a daily basis for all criteria required by both community standards and by the steemit team.

Community's Curation Account

The community was created with a corresponding curation account which serves as its official account, hence @steem4nigeria. @steem4nigeria has remained the community's main curation account with delegations from all members. The community account has a total of 15,604.79 effective SP at the time of publishing this article. Also, as of the time of publishing, @steem4nigeria is currently a #club100 participant. Below are other stats of this reviewed community account.

Account's Owned and Delegated SP

SP Type	Amount
Owned	8,554.86
Delegations	7,049.93
Total	15,604.79

As of the time of publishing this article, we have at least 11 delegators. We hope to grow this value through a concerted effort from all active members of the community for effective curation support.

Account Keys

At present, our posting key to our curation account is shared with the MODs for reviewing and curation. More so, #xkool24 (Admin) and #simonnwigwe (Lead Moderator) have the entire community account keys. This is to strengthen a ground status of consensus before transactions are initiated in the community. The community has been poised to be a non-profitable one with a sense of long-term achievement and support drive for all.

Policy of Checking Articles

In our noble community #Steem4Nigeria, there are some key parameters designated as a priority for checking articles published in the community. This brings about a seamless review of published articles in the community with readers and curators. These are some of the used parameters in the community;

Verified User: This is one of the parameters that tops our list. Users are checked for their achievement tasks to ensure they have been verified. This is also indicated by labeling users for easy and subsequent review.

Steem Exclusive: Moderators endeavor to check that published articles have not been shared with any other platform before they are published in the community. In doing so, we are guaranteed #steemexclusive articles in the community.

Plagiarism-Free: Published articles are checked for plagiarism and a dedicated tool is used for this purpose.

Club Status: The minimum allowed user participation in the community is #club5050 and user adherence is achieved by turning down defaulters. Articles are checked using the appropriate tools.

Bot Free: Users are also checked for this and concerns of vote buying are taken into consideration for users' accounts to guarantee community review. Only clean articles are considered for support in the community.

#burnsteem25: Users who support this project are also hyped during the review for possible support by the team. This can be verified by checking users' vote payout beneficiary parameters.

** AI Content Generation:** We endeavor that this parameter is enforced to discourage users from subverting the PoB which is the hallmark of the steemit platform. Some tools are already in use in checking this in the community.

How the Community Helps to Improve Users' Quality

Our first line of target is the newbies who are usually half-baked in adhering to the rules of engagement. We intend to guide them through a dedicated moderator who comes across users in this category. It is an agreed and collective effort to ensure they are directed for effectiveness and efficiency so as to encourage them. We have our available community groups to handle concerns of this category.

The community in its wisdom created and pinned some guides on allowable practices in Steemit on its community blog, through some of our admins/moderators' publications. They are to guide all users in the community irrespective of their status for efficiency and effectiveness.

Why Steem4nigeria Community Should be Chosen

We are a prepared community and at the same have taken into cognizance some parameters that make us more suitable in this 9th season of the engagement challenge.

• The number of participants actively posting in the community is at least the minimum requirement acceptable by the Team while selecting for both booming and the engagement challenge.

• The community hosts an active team of MODS and Admin that is readily available to handle reviews and curation activities in the community within the shortest possible time.

• The community is already experienced in handling the engagement challenge after being part of the challenge twice before now. Those moments were handled diligently and with utmost effectiveness.

• We are all poised to ensure community growth and such quality publications would be made to promote engagements in the upcoming contest if given the opportunity.

Conclusion

We would be glad if given the opportunity to participate as a community in the forthcoming season 9 engagement challenge. We pledge to be consistent with the guidelines and requirements of the organizers as this would also help us contribute meaningfully to the steemit ecosystem.
Thank you, Steemit Team.

Admin/Lead Moderator Contact Details

User	Discord Contact
@xkool24	xkool24#1305
@simonnwigwe	simonnwigwe#1226