OnSteemit Engagement Challenge Season 5 - Application For Steem Cameroon Community

Hello Steem Cameroonians and Steemit Team

Steem Cameroon Community writes this application this day to express her desire to be selected again for Season 5 of Steemit Engagement Challenge as announce by the steemit team, through this post on @steemitblog.

This is our second time applying for this challenge, as season 4 helped us grow steem cameroon community account strength, which we use to curate articles in the community and all Admins and mods have decide to stay in at least club75 at all times, to help grow the community and Steemit as a whole. In addition, via season 4 we were able to set up a well structure way of reviewing all articles/contest entries in the community, which will go a long way again this season provided we are selected.

History of Steem Cameroon Community and its Goals

Steem Cameroon community was created by @saxopedia in 12/12/2020 , with @fombae being the co-founder and ever since then, the community has been welcoming to but cameroon steemians and steemians all over steemit platform. From about 10 active posters on the date of creation, today steem cameroon community can boost of over 128 active posters and 2,628 subscribers as of the day of writing this application.

Steem Cameroon community was created with the goal or aim of connecting steemians with divest cultures, ideas and knowledge, in a manner that can never be achieved individually.

Administrators and Moderators of the Steem Cameroon Community.

Steem Cameroon Community is presently mananged by six (6) personnel, two (2) of which are administrators and 4 moderators, all of which are of Cameroonian nationality.

Photo and Username	Role	Club Status	Reputation	Information
@saxopedia	ADMIN	club100	72	Joined Steemit in July 2020, and has been active since then. Founder of the Steem Cameroon Community. CR for Cameroon. Own SP: 15,879.14 Effective SP: 10,708.06
@fombae	ADMIN	club100	71	Joined Steemit in July 2020, and has been active since then. Co-founder of the Steem Cameroon Community A former member of the Cosmopolitan Team Own SP: 9,085.44 Effective SP: 3,449.62
@chant	MOD	club100	72	Joined Steemit in July 2020, and has been active since then. CR for Cameroon. selected as one of the community curators for this month Own SP: 10,837.90 Effective SP: 12,802.50
@wase1234	MOD	club100	69	Joined Steemit in July 2020, and has been active since then. Own SP: 5,161.04 Effective SP: 1,736.54
@majerius	MOD	club100	68	Joined Steemit in January 2021, and has been active since then. Own SP: 4,236.23 Effective SP: 1,617.54
@b-naj	MOD	club100	66	Joined Steemit in April 2021, got activated in September 2021 and has been active since then. Own SP: 2,170.94 Effective SP: 895.43

Community Curation Account

Steem Cameroon Community has one official curation account (@steem-cameroon). Created with the aim of supporting all members of steem cameroon community who publish good articles which meets steemit etiquette and steem cameroon community rules. This account was created upon the creation of steem cameroon community and presently owns 19,505.72 steem power and 50,518.82 delegated, giving an effective steem power of 70,024.54.

How it is built up

The community account is build up via three main ways.

• Firstly is by powering up of all post pay out through the community publications(in cases were the post is set on 50%SBD / 50% SP)
• Secondly by freewill delegations from both all steem cameroon admins and mods, and steem cameroon members.
• and lastly by freewill setting @steem-cameroon beneficiary of any percentage of post pay out.

The screenshot below from https://steemworld.org/@steem-cameroon give details about the community account.

Who holds the keys

All Administrative personnel of the Steem Cameroon Community holds the Private Posting Key of the community's curation account, while its Private Active Key and MASTER KEY is held by founder and co-founder (@saxopedia and @fombae).

The Community’s current policy for checking and commenting on posts

Presently the admins of steem cameroon community has establish a google sheet whereby its is been updated with the links of all new articles in the community just to make sure we leave no article unreview.

All administrative personnels of steem camroon use the above sheet to keep track of all articles published in the community, to facilitate the reviewing, curating and commenting process of all articles. This sheet has the following fields:

SN -> for the number of articles
Author -> account name of the person who publish the article
Country -> Country of origin of the author
Club Status -> Club status of the account
Link -> links of the article published
Published Date -> Date of publication
Plagiarized -> to record all plagiarized articles
Admin -> to record the name of admin or mod who reviewed the article
Review -> If the article is reviewed or not
Curator vote -> if the article in question has receive a vote from either steemit team, booming or community curators.

Commenting on post

The administrative personnel's of steem Cameroon together came up with a comfortable way of commenting on all articles. Sample screenshot of our comment can be seen below.

For checking of plagiarism and, we use https://www.duplichecker.com/ or https://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/ to check originality of any article
While For club status, we http://steemit.lovestoblog.com/clubstatus.php?author=nellita66&months=2&i=3 and or https://steemworld.org/transfer-search or https://www.steemcryptic.me/club5050 to carefully check authors clubstatus.

Scoring System or Verification Format

Category	Remark	Score
Verified User	✅ or ❌	1/1
#steemexlusive	✅ or ❌	1/1
Plagiarism Free	✅ or ❌	1/1
Bot Free	✅ or ❌	1/1
Markdown Style		2/2
Quality Content		4/4

Category	Remark
Verification Period (Club Status)	Month Date to Month Date, Year
Transfered In	xxx.xxx STEEM
Transfered Out	xxx.xxx STEEM
Voting CSI	00.00 ( 0.00 % self, 00 upvotes, 00 accounts, last 7d )
Valid Comments	x
Upvotes gotten	x
Verification Date	Day-Month-Year
Verification Time (UTC+1)	00:00

How we help our members improve the quality of their posts

• Communication between community members and admins. Steem Cameroon has both a discord channel and telegram channel which is open and welcoming to community members and aspiring community members, whereby we get in-touch with members, share our thoughts, opinions, and ideas on publishing quality articles and also to work effectively as one to build a better steem cameroon.

• The Steem Cameroon Community runs weekly contests to keep its members active and engaging, which also help members improve the quality of their post over time.

• There is the compulsory requirement of at least 250 word counts on every publication, before it is qualified to receive support from the community account, admins and mods.

• Explicit articles usually published via the community account to guide members on the appropriate/correct use of tags to help fetch articles easily which intends facilitate the review and curation process of articles.

Reasons why their community should be selected for the Challenge

• With the experience we have had from the previous engagement challenge season, we are up to the task and ready to go in for another season

• The Steem Cameroon Community presently has 2000+ subscribers with an average of at least 120 active posts weekly, all thanks to last season engagement challenge

• We already have in place 4 amazing engaging contest idea to carry us out through this season

The administrative team make sure to check publications every single day, and good quality posts gain support from our official curation account, @steem-cameroon.

The administrative team comprises of club100 members, as such we support the steem growth project of Steemit.

Great improvements have evolved from members from the creatiin date till present date.

The administrators are more than willing to grow on the steemit platform.

Steem Cameroon Community is the favorite of many authors.

Steem Cameroon Team
And our humble regards to the steemit team

Contact Details

Administrators	Contact Details
@saxopedia	saxopedia#6055 (Discord)
@fombae	fombae#5826 (Discord)

Steem Cameroon Team

@saxopedia (ADMIN)
@fombae (ADMIN)
@wase1234 (MOD)
@majerius (MOD)
@chant (MOD)
@b-naj (MOD)

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