Weekly Report as Steem Representative, 15 July 2024

^{Week 69!}

My fellow Steemians

The last couple of days were not easy at all. First, since Friday I've been experiencing problems with my laptop, and then yesterday we sat without water AND without electricity.

I should not complain; life carries on and all bad things come to an end. When I switched my laptop on this morning, it was working. There was water for the kettle, plus there was electricity to boil the water!

So, here I am!

It is time for my feedback for the week.

Prizes given away in contests

• 17 STEEM Power in “Choices! What will it be?“

Charity support

• Wox-helpfund: 2,964 STEEM

• @aplausos: 10 STEEM

Events or other activities

Steem For Ladies

With 316 current active posts, I can tell you that the community is busy, and I applaud the moderators who sit in the late night hours performing their duties.
Thank you, ladies! You are awesome!

Week 1 of SEC19 was completed and enjoyed by all of us. A big surprise was the number of men who took part.

We are looking forward to receiving entries for Week 2.

My duties:

1. Curation and verification of posts on my day of duty as well as filling in on the days of others
2. Educating and monitoring 7 moderators
3. Validating MOD verifications
4. Verifying new members
5. Booming posts submissions and community voting
6. Taking care of community notifications and comments
7. Writing of 4 community posts
8. Monitoring and running of community contests
9. Lending a helping hand to members of the community
10. Approval of moderator contests

General

A helping hand was lent to four Steemians on WhatsApp and various others via the platform.

It was all quiet on the Discord server.

▸Africa:

Unfortunately, due to the slow response from our fellow Steemians from Africa, we have to postpone the start of our "How to Be Unique in 7 Days" program until we have at least fifty interesting parties.
I must also admit that I was not as active as I wanted to be in inviting Steemians to join. This will, however, be a priority this week.

▸Curator assistance

Assistance was given to one curator.

▸Moderator assistance

Assistance was given to one moderator.

Issues encountered:

My biggest encounter this week is the lack of engagement!

After Week 1 of SEC19, I can report that the engagement on the posts of fellow Steemians participating in this contest is not good. I truly hope that this will change in the coming week.

I also received some questions and read comments about choosing winners in a contest. Unfortunately, I do not have the answer. It is up to each host and community to choose their winners. I do, however, agree that it is sad when the best post is not picked. Let me rephrase that: the best post, where the author adhered to ALL the rules, was not picked as a winning post.

Often, Steemians might only see one side of the story, like a good-quality post that was not chosen, but what they don’t see is that the author did not resteem the post, did not invite fellow Steemians to participate, or, like with SEC, did not engage.

Also, I might choose a different winner than you, as I relate differently to a post. This I have often seen in Steem For Ladies when we have to nominate and vote for winners.

My advice is to keep on writing to enjoy it and not to win.

See you next week!

15% beneficiary to @wox-helpfund