Sndbox Alpha is Coming Soon to Upvote Your Music + Art Posts for January! (Details Inside)
I know, I can hardly believe it, but there is about to be another curation trail on the block curating and upvoting music and art content around Steemit.
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Sndbox-alpha is a 30k-SP-delegated account followed by a trail of 40+ Steemians at varying ranges of SP themselves. It is a formidable upvoting force that can do a lot of damage, and by damage I mean giving money to you.
How to Make Money from Sndbox-Alpha in January 2018
It is going to be simple to earn money from Sndbox-Alpha in January 2018. First off let me explain what the team is going to do:
(1) Members of the Sndbox team will search around Steemit for music posts that are below a certain reward threshold (probably around $3) and will submit them for consideration.
(2) Other members of Sndbox will review these submissions and give the best 10 of them a full power upvote from the curation trail.
(3) Ten music and/or art posts per day receive this vote, which based on today’s prices will be worth around $17 (and could be higher if there is a rebound).
This plan is subject to change but it will something in this ballpark.
Your posts could be the ones to get these $17 upvotes! You even might have the direct opportunity to submit your posts for consideration.
Sndbox Alpha is a Limited Opportunity for January 2018 Only
The trail will change “Themes” each month for for the next four months. Music only gets 10 days or so since we are starting in the latter half of January, so you will need to act promptly to take full advantage of this opportunity.
Voting starts (probably) on Monday, Jan 22nd. There will be a post before that on the weekend with more information.
The most important thing that you can do if you are interested in getting a few of those $17 upvotes that are about to rain down all over Steemit’s music and art tags is to follow the @sndbox-alpha account. That way you will definitely be able to see the posts and stay informed about this project.
Even after the music and art month of January is over, there will be more opportunities to earn upvotes in other categories. Keep that in mind too as you continue reading.
Follow the Sndbox Alpha Trail
The ultimate way to engage with the account is to follow the trail. You can earn some curation rewards while supporting high value content all around Steemit.
Here’s how you do it. Start by going to SteemAuto.
Click on the “Curation Trail” option in the lefthand bar.
Here you will see something like this except with your name and with different trail settings.
Scroll down on this page and directly below is a list of the top trails on SteemAuto. If you scroll down a bit we are (as of this writing) ranked 18th on the site. It’s the easiest way find the trail. Then click follow and you’ll start earning curation rewards!
100% voting power (or “Auto”) is recommended for accounts below 5,000 SP.
Long-Term Goal of Sndbox Alpha
This “class” of Sndbox members will only exist until June 2018. After that, we graduate and become alumni at which point we will have significantly less voting support from the @sndbox account and its related projects.
The @sndbox-alpha account will be a source of SP for us following the time that we are no longer part of @sndbox as members of the cohort.
Until then it will mostly, or hopefully exclusively (details being worked out) vote for non-sndbox content. After June 2018, some amount of the votes will be allocated to content by members of the old cohort i.e. us but we’ll continue to vote for other content around the website too.
And no matter what we will continue to maximize curation rewards by using the best upvote strategies. That means we’ll be generating the maximum possible rewards for our followers and for @sndbox-alpha’s nest egg itself.
Official Posts From @sndbox-alpha Start This Weekend
That is only a few days away so follow @sndbox-alpha and make sure that you have some good music and art content ready to submit for the last 10 days of January.
Fun! There's a lot of talented people on here who would certainly benefit from this initiative!
definitely.
Hi Matt, is it necessary to submit the music anywhere or do I just follow the sandbox trail and then someone will check my posts for music? I'm interested to know how this all works..
More instructions are forthcoming at the @sndbox-alpha account, so follow over there and keep an eye out this weekend.
Fantastic news, super exciting. Today has been quite a day for me to discovering a whole lot of amazing music peeps here on steemit and this is just icing on the cake. New mix this weekend, that most definitely will be available on dsound, so if that qualifies, amazing, why not try, right? Otherwise, maybe some originals, but most importantly (it's not all about me, I knooow), a chance to find EVEN MORE amazing music? Umm, count me in. Thanks for the heads up and look forward to your own stuff, @heymattsokol. Cheers!
That will qualify! Follow @sndbox-alpha and make sure to submit it when we do the first submissions post this weekend.
Followed it already, thanks, man :) Looking forward to peeps' stuff.
All over this. Just followed sandbox alpha. Hope one of the early themes is “time traveling edm synth cyborgs” but like I can work with whatever.
I will be exclusively nominating EDM Synth Cyborg category posts, personally. But I can't speak for the others.
This is likely why in 2028 you have an small army of robots guarding your mansion.
I've said too much.
I'm a SteemAuto fanatic and I had spotted this a few days ago on the site. I've been following since then and eagerly awaiting the curation goldmine.
:-D
we're gonna be rich o_o (lol)
I was wondering how voting trails work and how people become apart of them. Thanks for the info on that. I'm in the process of signing up on @steemauto right now :)
I'm down with joining the @sndbox-alpha trail
Awesome thank you!! The trail is going to be great. We just finished organizing our first week of curation and now all we have to do is wait for monday to roll around so we can start selecting posts and upvoting :-)
Going through the process - there are a few thing that I'm a bit confused about (not sure if you can clarify). If you can I would appreciate it.
So by joining @steemauto I am giving them permission to vote and post for me. I get the vote part, but post? I do not fully understand why they would need to post for me. Also, they require access to my Steemit password which I am leery about. It seems like a huge risk to me, like at any point my account could be wiped out lol.
Are you a part of the curation trail or any others through steemauto and if so what is your experience with them?
Don't give them your password. You should only give them your active key, which while still bad if compromised, is not nearly as bad as the password. In the case of an active key leak you are still in no risk of losing your account.
The site will never post for you unless you use it to schedule posts - and that's why it asks for that function. There is a feature for post scheduling, but if you only log in (with active key) and follow the Sndbox-Alpha trail, all it will do is vote for the posts that we vote for on the trail.
I'm on Steemauto and I am following the Alpha trail, my experience with them has been nothing but positive so far :-)
Ok, I think I understand now, thanks for the clarification. I still have a lot to learn about Steemit.
Most of my SP is delegated at present but if this works out for music/arts I will support it. Hard to catch all the good content out there so I'm in.
This is awesome, i would especially encourage / welcome a direct submission line.
I am hoping there will be one starting ASAP!
Watching out on updates of @sndbox-alpha and good luck on all music posts this January!
Great info Matt, really appreciate the details. Thank you! -Dan