Steemit Philippines Community | Application for the Communities of the Month Support Program - For the Month of September (08-20-2021)

A greeting to all from the Steemit Philippines Community's Admin, Moderators, and Members!!!

The Steemit Team's Communities Support Program has been highly effective, and as a growing community, it has a significant influence on us since it will encourage our members to be active and will reward them for their posts through the @booming support our community received last month. Now that August is coming to an end, the application for the Steemit Communities Support Program for September is open, and because our main goal is to build a strong community, we are back to apply, hoping that by the grace of God, we will be chosen for the @steemcurator01 support.

To get to know more about the Steemit Philippines Community, visit us here.

Community Purpose & Team Building

Steemit is a super-legit way to augment a living in these hard-up times. We need to make a point that the rest of the community members should not rely solely on milking the platform but be a great asset to its growth, popularity, and mass adoption.

Here are our top purposes why we built this community.

Unity
It is believed that Filipinos are resilient, hardworking, and work in unison when the need arises. So having us united would make us really strong as a team. With this unity we all aim despite diversified cultures, we may call ourselves a FAMILY that blogs together for the common good.

Awareness
As we go along with sharing our lives through our content shared, we come across a point where we would know what's happening to each of our fellow community members. We were able to gain knowledge from what each and everyone is sharing.

Support To Become Better Each Passing Day
Whatever acknowledgment we would want to receive from our peers then it should be done to other fellow members. We also highly recommend immersing our community members in other communities and not only here in Steemit Philippines as there would come a time that they will eventually find their niche and would share what they really love with the like-minded people they will be interacting with sooner or later.

Community Team

Since the start of the Steemit Support Program, the team has been doing its best in building a better community. I thank God for without their help we could not get all the achievements we have here in the community because I know that I could not run and handle the community on my own. Since the Philippines has three Regions, the Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, I have assigned 3 Moderator/ Leader and with their pairing which are Moderator/Greeters. All moderators can read, write and understand English and the language or dialect we can use mostly here in the community is our own language, Tagalog, and even other dialects like Visayan.

Now, to have a better understanding and more specific on what are our team's roles and responsibilities, here are the full details of it.

The new Roles and Responsibilities of our Moderators are as follows.

MOD Username	Roles	Responsibilities
@loloy2020	ADMIN	Over All Manager/Monthly Report it includes all Verified Members from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao together with the Active and Inactive Members/Community Account Handler/Community Representative/Promotion
@fycee	MOD(Luzon Leader)	Weekly Update Every 1st Week of the Month it includes all Verified Members from the Luzon Region, Active and Inactive Members/Creates Contest/Check Plagiarized Content/Promotion
@kneelyrac	MOD(Luzon Greeter)	Help to Check Diary Game Entries and other Contests/To welcome all newcomers and encourage them to comment on all posts in the Community/Promotion.
@juichi	MOD(Visayas Leader)	Weekly Update Every 2nd Week of the Month it includes all Verified Members from the Visayas Region, Active and Inactive Members/Creates Contest/Check Plagiarized Content/Promotion
@me2selah	MOD(Visayas Greeter)	Help to Check Diary Game Entries and other Contests/To welcome all newcomers and encourage them to comment on all posts in the Community/Promotion.
@long888	MOD(Mindanao Leader)	Weekly Update Every 3rd Week of the Month it includes all Verified Members from the Mindanao Region, Active and Inactive Members/Creates Contest/Check Plagiarized Content/Promotion
@jb123	MOD(Mindanao Greeter)	Help to Check Diary Game Entries and other Contests/To welcome all newcomers and encourage them to comment on all posts in the Community/Promotion.

Hopefully, these newly added roles and responsibilities of our Moderators will help our community to be better and continuously doing good for everyone's benefit.

As we are still a growing community, the only way we can reward or compensate our team is through upvotes to their weekly report and even to their comments, as they are tasked with verifying new members and assisting me in determining whether a member's entry to a specific contest is qualified or not. Though it is not that big reward we could provide them, it is nonetheless significant assistance. I believe we all have the same objective and purpose in our community to make it better, and whatever reward they receive, I am confident they will be pleased.

Community Curation Account

The Community Curation Account of Steemit Philippines is @steemitphcurator which created the community with no SP on its own but as days go by, with the help of some of our members who delegated some of their SP and from the unending support from the Steemit Team who keeps on upvoting some of our community's Daily Update, the community curation account now has a total of 10,508.27 SP but still counting. Some of our members delegated some of their SP which is 3,366.74 SP in total and the account has a total of 7,141.52 SP.

Our major objective right now is to accumulate enough SP to sustain our community and help our members. To do all of this, we urge our users to help us by delegating their SP to our community curation account. In exchange, they will get a reward every month, with 80 percent of the curation award going to our delegators and the remaining 20 percent going to power up. Another option is to join in the #SPUD4STEEM campaign, which we have done for the last four months on the first of every month, and we won fourth place in our first participation and fifth place in our second, and we acquire enough SP to power up with the support of the Steemit Team.

The Steemit team has played a significant part in the development of our community from its inception, and we would not be where we are now without their assistance. A large portion of the rewards we earned from all of the daily updates, which are mostly supported by @steemcurator01, were used to power up the community curation account, and some were used to reward and sustain the ongoing contest we have in the community right now, which is the Diary Game contest and the Photography contest.

As an admin, @loloy2020 has all the access to the keys together and decided to upvote and support our member's content shared in the community, while the other moderators have access to the Private Positing Key on as they were also tasks to do some updates and can handle contests through the community account. Currently, the Voting CSI of @steemitphcurator is 17.9 ( 5.42 % self, 141 upvotes, 62 accounts, last 7d ). As far as I could, I have read and check all our member's posts and upvote all of them. I have also visited and given some upvotes to those who have used the official tag #steemitphilippines, and I have also visited other communities to give some upvotes.

Plagiarism & Abuse

This month of August, as we received a @booming support from Steemit Team, it is also our responsibility as a team to make the community better and one issue we primarily going to address is this Plagiarism and Abuse.

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The first step we took was to create a verification procedure that will prevent our members from creating dummy accounts, and so far, this verification process has proven to be quite beneficial to our community since it allows us to get to know our members better. Our Moderator/Leaders in each region were tasked with verifying them and labeling them with the region to which they belong.

One of our Moderator/Leader @fycee, have years of experience being a fraud analyst in a top International Financial Institution, have developed a way to detect a fraudulent transaction by meeting some guidelines to put a red flag on an account. Therefore, simple things like checking photos if they were stolen would be really easy.

To end up plagiarism and abuse in our community, the best thing we could do is to explain to them that Plagiarism is a form of robbery or stealing and indeed a fraudulent activity. Imagine you will be generating an income even though it would only range from a penny to a few amounts of Dollars or any other currencies available. Stealing cents is such a shame. Thus stealing huge amounts will make a person a law-breaker. Integrity should always be instilled in any community being built and we will always comply with that.

Explain to every member that plagiarism we should need to ask ourselves this question first before we proceed to be on Steem or any other platform:

If you steal one's content, would you like to be branded as a thief?

I guess we all know the answer, so why would we do it?

The ways we could do to know a plagiarized content:

• If a photo is looking so good to be true then it's time to wear this detective hat and start to investigate.

• Our moderators @fycee have some ways to know if a photo is stolen or not by checking the metadata of a photo and compare it to the previous photos that they have shared before. That is the first thing I am doing. The rest should be undisclosed.

• While @juichi is tasked to check for all the content's write-ups if it is original content or just taken from other sources using this Plagiarism Checker Tool. Based on our record, he had already reported one user who shared a plagiarized content and is already reported to the @endplagiarism account and maybe already takes action on it, and that account is @xein and here is the post.

• The other moderators were also assigned to other tasks that will help the community end up plagiarism and abuse.

Engagement & Commenting

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Engagements and comments are highly essential in creating a stronger community since they help all members to get to know one other while also serving as a method of communication. Aside from the Moderator/Leader in each region, the duties of our moderators include the Moderator/Greeter, whose major tasks are to welcome and remark on every one of our members' posts, allowing us to create a conversation within the community. We will ensure that all shared content is remarked on, as well as partake in certain interactions.

One way to encourage our members to engage and comment is to include in the rules of any contests we run in the community that in order to be qualified, they must comment on the link's entry to the most recent community account update, and it really works as we see more engagements and comments from our members.

Plans & Updates

Now that the community has a team who will help to build a better community, there are lots of plants and updates we could do now and in the future. Here we will state some of it and we pray to God that all of this will fulfill in the future.

1. The first thing that put up my mind was to get enough SP before this year ends and I just hope we could reach at least 20,000 SP or more this year.
2. Create more contests with the help of the moderators to make our members more active and even those who are not active will encourage to be active again.
3. Our aim is to establish a charity works here in the community since our major purpose here is to be united in doing good, to help and support our members, particularly those in need.
4. We have a plan in mind to have our own t-shirts with the Steemit Philippines Community printed in them as it was also one way of promoting Steemit outside the platform.
5. To create more Social Media platform account as a form of our promotions.
6. To have a contest like a Video contest where our members will going to show how they invite their friends, family, or someone they know to join Steemit platform.

With regards to our updates, I have shared daily updates and posted it always in the community and mostly the updates were all about the existing contests we have and planned to have a weekly update to what are the most important updates that happened within the week.

As of now, the Steemit Philippines has no roadmap to follow but it is now on our plan to have it. If we talk about our long-term plan, I could say that our long-term plan is to make this community better and be a good place for all Filipinos all over the world to join as it is our passion to help and support all of them.

Promotion

Targeting selected audiences each time could also gather members and form their own team from the niche they have, such as the LGBTQ group and other sectors outside the platform.

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Here is one of our moderator's Invitation posts to join Steemit. @Fycee is inviting co-workers from the BPO Industry (Call Center). It is the most effective way to promote.

We have created a Facebook page and a Twitter account for more visibility and so we could interpret graphs that these platforms are going to generate.

• Official Facebook Page: Steemit Philippines Community Bloggers Group

• Official Twitter Account: Steemit Philippines Community| Username: @steemitPhCom

As previously stated in our plans, we intend to open more accounts on various Social Media sites for promotional purposes. I also said that one of our objectives is to have a contest in which our members demonstrate how they invite their family, friends, and anybody they know to join the Steemit platform, and we are praying to God that this contest will be successful soon.

Each moderator was also tasked to do each way of promoting the Steemit Philippines Community and the Steemit platform itself.

Anything Else

Our Community is still a small community but since the beginning, we have given our best as a team to make the community better than before. The @booming support program we receive here in the community really had a big impact as it allows our members to be rewarded for their posts shared in the community. Based on our observation, before the community received the @booming support from Steemit Team, our active members ranges only from 50-65 members each day but it definitely changed as @booming support come, from 50-65 members per day, our active members now will range from 70-90 above per day.

I will be honest with all of you that if ever our community will choose for the community of the month support program by Steemit Team, I will do my best together with the moderators to make our community better and will do our designated tasks properly. We will encourage all our members to make it #steemexclusive.

As a growing community, it is a big privilege to choose and will receive support for this month from the Steemit Team.

With these guidelines we have set for the community, we are all confident that we would be strong and compliant with all the rules that will be set by the Platform Leaders from then on.

We foster, love, care, support, and happiness to other members' triumphs.

And from us, admins and moderators, there should be no competition and NOT count the things we have done but work together as one and stick to very first purpose.... U N I T Y !

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED OUR STEEMIT PHILIPPINES COMMUNITY AND GOD BLESS!!!

All Banners Credits to @deveerei. Thank you for the support.

GIF Footer Credits to @baa.steemit

Many Thanks to all and God all the Praise and Thanksgiving !!!