The Steem News @ 5 February 2023 : Booming Support Communities...
Steemit has announced the communities who will be receiving Booming support.
The Steem Marketing team have given an update on their promotion work on social media.
Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Power Ups & STEEM Burns, the World Smile Solar Project, SteemPro, Steem Watcher Portal, AVLEOne, an Interview with @moh.arif, Recommended Reads, a Charity Call, and Contests on Steem...
1. Booming Support Communities
Steemit has announced the communities who will be receiving Booming support.
All 28 communities who applied will now be receiving support from the @booming accounts.
Booming support has been restructured into three Tiers instead of two as before. Communities selected for Tier 1 will receive 6 @booming votes each day, those in Tier 2 will receive 4 votes per day, and those in Tier 3 will get 2 votes per day.
@alejos7ven's Make Noise project will also receive @booming support...
2. Steem Promotion Update
@o1eh has published a report on the English language activities of the Steem Marketing group.
He has been actively promoting Steem on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
@ubongudofot has been helping by doing live broadcasts on Instagram...
Pennsif the Witness
After almost 2000 days on Steem I decided it was time to take my contribution to the platform to the next level.
I have therefore set up as a Steem witness... @pennsif.witness
If anyone would like to support what I already do, and what I am planning to do, by giving one of their 30 witness votes to @pennsif.witness I would be hugely grateful.
You can read my full witness announcement here...
@pennsif.witness has now reached #20. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.
3. Power Ups & Burns
The latest stats from @remlaps this week have revealed a small increase in the amount of STEEM that is powered up.
The past week has seen a 210K SP (0.13%) increase to 168,042,680 STEEM powered up, equivalent to a value of $35,908,368...
@remlaps continues to track the impact of Steemit's burnsteem25 campaign encouraging people to set a 25% beneficiary to @null to reduce the amount of STEEM, which potentially will increase its value.
In the past week there have been 732 burnsteem25 posts.
The total burnt since June has now reached 119K SP, 81K STEEM, and 909 SBD...
4. World Smile in Nigeria
The World Smile Solar PV project in Nigeria is making progress.
Project leader @ubongudofot has posted another update on the fundraising efforts for the project.
380 STEEM has been raised in the past week...
@ubongudofot has produced a full budget update for the project...
International Manager @irawandedy has posted a report on the general finances for the World Smile Project...
5. Developer Updates
Developer @faisalamin has posted news about further developments on SteemPro...
@faisalamin has also published the latest analytics for usage of SteemPro...
@bountyking5 has given details of new verification features on the Steem Watcher Portal...
- Steem Watcher Portal Update -- New Features for Verification -- Why AJAX is Important -- 01-Feb-2022
@bountyking5 has also announced that Detectives should now be using the official SteemWatcher Portal for making their abuse reports...
Witness developer @etainclub has been working on the design for his new AVLEOne app...
6. Interview with @moh.arif
@ubongudofot has done a Showcase interview with another member of the @bangla.witness team. This time with @moh.arif...
7. Recommended Reads
Top witness @donekim has reported back on the Steem Meetup that took place on Saturday at Busan in South Korea.
Participants at the meetup came up with a series of questions for @donekim to put to the Steemit team.
@donekim includes the answers from the Steemit team in his post...
@remlaps has published a digest of interesting Steem and Tron related news stories that have appeared recently including Justin Sun promoting Steem, and an AI project between Tron, Bittorent and ChatGPT...
8. Charity Call
Long time Steemian @abiga554 has appealed for help to pay for medical treatment for her very sick one year old daughter Aurora.
The community has rallied round with major donations being sent by @wox-helpfund, @cotina, @worldsmile, @r2cornell, @chriddi and many others...
@Pennsif has sent a donation from his @communityaction witness fund.
9. Contests on Steem
@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem.
There are 92 contests in the latest list with over 700 STEEM in prizes...
@disconnect has also produced an interesting analysis of contests on Steem...
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]
| STEEM price | US$ 0.22 | 5 Feb '23 10.57pm UTC |
| STEEM price | 0.00000935 BTC | 5 Feb '23 10.57pm UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking | #285 | 5 Feb '23 10.57pm UTC |
| SBD price | US$ 2.68 | 5 Feb '23 10.57pm UTC |
| Unique visitors (steemit.com) | 147,720 / day | 5 Feb '23 10.57pm UTC |
| Page views (steemit.com) | 282,146 / day | 5 Feb '23 10.57pm UTC |
This is #488 (5 Feb '23) of this daily news service.
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Hi, this is the Spanish translation: Noticias Steem @ 5 de febrero de 2023: Soporte Booming de las comunidades...
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Thank you very much for the translation.
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Very grateful for your contribution for my daughter, God bless you greatly!
I hope it all goes well for you and your daughter.
I hope the analysis report will be helpful for the contest organizers in improving their future contest ideas and maybe make changes to the not performing ones.
Contests are a key part of the Steem platform. They seem to be trending upwards at the moment.
Do you think Team Millionaire is helping?
The votes certainly gave support for the organizers, but I don't see a clear upward trend. Total contest per day always ranges between 70 - 90 these days. There was a time I had 100+ contests in the list even before the Millionaire initiative. The all-time high was 138 contests. The real uptrend happened during the price hike, but as the price dropped, so did the contest count.
A lot of organizers then adapted to give booming support as the price and continued their contests. However, I believe team Millionaire can change the structural voting based on clubs, that can be a factor to consider for high votes but there should be other factors as well (Creativity / Participation count / Rewards). But then that will be a complicated job to decide the percentages. I know this because I curated with the team for two months. Overall, they are doing wonderful job to keep organizers motivated.
With all that, I'm still wondering,
What is the ideal number of contests per day?
Can any Steemian organize a contest, and will the communities support them?
What is considered a successful participant count for a contest? Is there an average number to measure this by?
Why do participants often stick to one type of contest and only participate in a few organizer's contests?
Do Steemians see contests as a key part of the platform?
Perhaps by conducting this analysis, I can answer some of these questions using data. This topic is open for discussion to find better solutions.
I am guessing prize value is one of the key factors that drives participation numbers.
But from my personal observations contests also have to be kept simple to get good participation rates.
Unfortunately that can limit creativity amongst contest organisers, and lead to many very similar contests.
I agree with this, from the several types of contests that I have held, I see that simple contests will get a larger number of contestants than usual, such as the [Top 3 Post Contest] I Am A Steemian And Proud To Be A Steemian - Season 2 which managed to get up to 38 participants in just two editions.
And speaking of prizes, we usually provide 9 to 20 SP for the best 3-5 participants. or maybe there are other suggestions from you @pennsif and @disconnect regarding the number of relevant prizes so as to attract participants' interest to be actively involved in every contest in the community.
That's wonderful! It is a topic that anyone can get involved. Good luck for the future seasons!
Well, I have a contradiction to both observations.
Prize value: I had the same feeling that this is a major factor to attract participants. Because of this reason, I’m still arranging the contests according to the prize pool value as well. However, data shows that it is not the case as we thought. For example, if you see the 26th Jan stats, Steem plants had only 01 Steem prizes pool for its participants and had 08 contenders. Same day Culture Photography Challenge had a 10 Steem prizes pool but only attracted 06 contenders. I can list many examples as such.
Simple contest format: For me, the simplest contest I’ve seen is “The Guessers Club”. 10 Steem prize pool is a wonderful bargain for a simple “type 03 numbers” kind of game. Yet, it only drew 10-15 participants weekly. I feel it should at least attract 50+ given the fact that it is open to anyone and it is a comment contest.
The utmost important factor for participants is to know whether the Steemit team supports a particular contest. That is the reason we get 100+ participants for Steemit Engagement Challenge. Then the reputation of the contest organizer or the community. If the organizer has a strong fan base there might be an increase in participation. These two are the most valid factors as I see.
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