Steemit Update [Sept 1st, 2022] : Community Curators for September

Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an application to become a Community Curator for September.

The switch to individual applications instead of team applications certainly proved popular with 70 submissions in total.

From all those applications we had plenty of good candidates to choose from.

We haven’t been able to select everyone of course but we have been able to put together six very strong teams for the new format of Community Curation in September.

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Community Curator Teams for September 2022

The teams selected for September are...

TEAM 1

• @alee75 [Indonesia]
• @crismenia [Venezuela]
• @jyoti-thelight [India]
• @kouba01 [Tunisia]
• @msharif [Bangladesh]

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TEAM 2

• @franyeligonzalez [Colombia]
• @fredquantum [Nigeria]
• @irawandedy [Indonesia]
• @karianaporras [Venezuela]
• @ripon0630 [Bangladesh]

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TEAM 3

• @chiabertrand [Cameroon]
• @harferri [Indonesia]
• @inspiracion [Venezuela]
• @lavanyalakshman [India]
• @simonnwigwe [Nigeria]

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TEAM 4

• @adeljose [Venezuela] [Team Leader]
• @deepak94 [India]
• @nadeesew [Sri Lanka]
• @nadiaturrina [Indonesia]
• @ubongudofot [Nigeria]

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TEAM 5

• @chant [Cameroon]
• @frafiomatale [Italy]
• @malikusman1 [Pakistan]
• @pelon53 [Venezuela]
• @waterjoe [Indonesia]

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TEAM FREESTYLE

• @josevas217 [Colombia]
• @ridwant [Indonesia]
• @wase1234 [Cameroon]
• @weisser-rabe [Germany]
• @yousafharoonkhan [Pakistan]

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Congratulations to everyone selected for one of the six teams.

Please would one person from each winning team confirm acceptance in a comment below and include their contact details (Discord / Telegram).

Then would the other four members of each team add their acceptance to their respective starter comments along with their contact details (Discord / Telegram).

We will then be in touch to provide the keys for the accounts.

Teams are free to select a leader if they want and need to.

If anyone selected is not wanting to participate in their chosen team either because of the mix or size of the team, please let us know in a comment as soon as possible and we may introduce substitutes.

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New Rules for Curation

As mentioned in the application post we are introducing some new ways of working for the September curation teams.

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First off we have dropped the specific themes allocated for each team.

Instead all teams will be free to vote on posts on any subject.

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We also want teams to look beyond communities. There are many good posts that are outside of any communities - just directly on people’s personal blogs.

Teams should seek out good posts everywhere - both within communities and outside of communities.

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The third significant change for September is voting on comments.

High quality relevant comments add a whole new richness to the Steem blogging ecosystem.

Good comments can be as interesting and as valuable as good posts.

We want good comments to be encouraged and rewarded.

Therefore for September we are looking for the curation teams to allocate a significant proportion of their voting capacity to comments.

We will not set a specific percentage for this, but we will keep it under review during the month and will welcome feedback from the Community Curators as to whether they find sufficient quality comments to vote on.

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Team Freestyle

For Teams 1 - 5 we want them to follow the usual curation guidelines of voting only on posts that are steem exclusive, bot free, plagiarism free, and by authors in club5050, club75, or club100.

However, for Team Freestyle we want to try something different.

Following suggestions particularly from @weisser-rabe we want to remove the guidelines and encourage Team Freestyle to curate any good quality posts even if they are not in the clubs, not steem exclusive, not bot free and not 300 words.

The only restriction that would remain in place would be not voting on plagiarized posts.

This will be an experiment for September to see, as some people suggest, that good quality posts are being missed and not rewarded because of the curation guidelines.

Will this help bring back more high quality content to the platform?

We look forward to feedback on this in the reports from Team Freestyle.

Our strong suggestion would be for @weisser-rabe or @josevas217 to take the lead in this team and prepare the weekly reports.

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The @steemcurator accounts should only be used for voting and commenting. They should not be used for downvoting or making posts.

We suggest that a comment is left on each post voted to let the author know the post has been supported by the curation team - and please include which member of the team selected the post.

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How the Curation Teams will be rewarded

Every day the teams will be allowed to allocate one full vote to a team member’s post - ideally in rotation.

In total therefore no more than 10% of the account’s voting power should be used on team members each week.

Additionally each week one member should post a report for the team in the Steem POD community with a list of their top 5 posts, with a brief note of why each post was chosen.

These weekly report posts should set beneficiaries to be shared with other members of the team. As there are only five members in each team, each member will now receive a higher percentage reward.

The posts will be voted by @steemcurator01.

We strongly encourage teams to ensure all members review and agree on the merits of the selected five posts of the week as bad choices may influence the reward given to the weekly report by @steemcurator01.

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September is going to be a very interesting month for the Community Curation project.

We are very much hoping the changes that have been introduced will cut down and hopefully eliminate the content farming, abuse and other ‘inefficiencies’ that were becoming apparent.

Our overall goals are improved quality of content and increased fairness of reward.

We hope everyone will join in this mission.

Thank you

The Steemit Team