Engage with People through Manual Curation
Contribution to SteemIt Community:
real posts reading, active commenting,
sincere humane upvoting of Good Content
There is a lot of discussions going on about quality of Content, automatic upvotes / "votes farming" (or selling / buying), about reasons why many who upvote "Manually" (i.e. personally, not through scripts / bots) are "content indifferent".
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I've seen such quite a few, read many of them, commented on some as well as expressed my opinion occasionally. Earlier I've written about my idea of how I can contribute to this SteemIt Community: "Engaging with people"!
Help to get the message across, participate in discussions occurring in comments after other sincere people posts. Also trying to do that "finding undervalued Steemians", give them some support, upvotes...
That's basically what constitutes "Manual Curation" as it was named quite a while ago. Now this phrase is not so trendy in Search results, although some people still emphasize it in their posts, comments and even on their profiles.
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Here are few posts I've found with some quotes:
Why Manual Curation is much Better?
Manual Curation vs Automatic Curation
Some advantages of manual curation: ... {please read it there}
I would add to that: it is also the best or even only way to discover many other interesting people, apart from the Author of that post, who comments on those posts, which we can decide to Follow and browse their blogs too. In that way, we can get to know many more new people and befriend them, thus expand our "Curation base" further. In fact people who use Auto-upvoting bots miss this whole advantage of Manual Curation: because they do not open those posts they auto-upvote (or get upvoted by bot on their behalf) and can't possibly SEE all those people who participates in discussion that follow!
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more recent: Introducing DLine: A Manual Curation System
DLine is ... about getting their work appreciated and read/viewed by individuals ...
Instead of getting zero readership, they will see support from individuals who read their post...
Therefore I've decided to make it into sort of regular routine: write and blog my own thoughts on the post I've found interesting and wanted to comment on. Because sometimes while writing reply / comment on others' posts text becomes a bit too lengthy and don't want to sort of "hijack" someone else's thread or discussion with such a big pieces.
Another reason is: it allows to reflect on my own contribution to this Community in the form of Manual Curation. I mean, being low on SP / RC / VP I can't do much comparing to some other people, neither "Delegate" nor sponsor anyone else's Delegation Projects (in fact I myself have been kindly sponsored recently). However what is within my abilities is to "Engage with People" in practical and traditional way: actually read their posts, evaluate their Content fairly AFTER actually reading that only (unlike those who never even open posts they "auto-upvote"), if possible (time and RCs allow) add to discussion my own comments, Re-steem some stuff which I think really worth it and finally write my own thoughts on some most interesting matters found in my "Curation Digest" (sort of "Reader Digest")
That way I believe I can Contribute to the SteemIt Community personally, with my efforts to actually TRULY "Engage with People" through direct communication, participation, reciprocation...
Otherwise, as in that song:
Where's the Love y'all? I don't, I don't know
Where's the Truth y'all? I don't know
...
What happened to the Love and the values of humanity?
What happened to the Love and the fairness and equality?
Instead of spreading Love we're spreading animosity
Lack of understanding leading us away from unity
...
Please get ENGAGED in discussion:
write comments, upvote, share / resteem
if you've found something interesting and useful here
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Hi @vimukti-ananda
Wanted to say "big thank you" for dropping by at my blog and for your valuable comment.
I only came to show my little support. Upvote on the way :)
Manual cutation = organic traffic. And everyone cares about genuine organic traffic.
upvote on the way, Piotr
thank you too for visiting! :)
yes, organic traffic is something like intrinsic value for shrewd marketing specialists like yourself, hey!
Very well said @vimukti-ananda :)
Are you a marketer by any chance too? :)
yours, Piotr
thank you. yes, certainly! ;)
I suppose anyone here on Steemit is more or less marketer, if managed to stay long enough and still keeps going. :D
hi @vimukti-ananda
I think most people here on Steemit would like to be marketers, but at the same time almost everyone fails. How many people do you see here who are actually successful? It's not easy to build active and supportive follower base and most people seem to fail.
Could you please tell me more about yourself? Do you work as a marketer in crypto space? or some different industry?
Yours
Piotr
well, mostly you're right of course. although what I've said is a bit in other sense. :)
"cascade replies" are increasingly "costly" in RC.
so, perhaps if you want I can write to your email (which you have posted on your profile) and then may be we may talk a bit more privately - since it doesn't really relate to the subject matter of this particular post. :)
(as well as some things are more like personal)
hi @vimukti-ananda
Im so very sorry for such a late reply. Im sure you know by now that I was away for few weeks and I just got back to "normal life".
I would love if you could reach out to me. My business email: [email protected]
Yours
Piotr
It blows my mind that this is something we even have to have a discussion about. Of course, "manual curation" is better -- we're looking for great posts, not just posts that someone has paid to have upvoted. Basically, if you're paying to upvote your post (or to have a bot do it or a whale swim by), your post really is just like an advertisement. It also means that good posts don't always have the highest payout, if we're talking content alone.
thanks for your comment, @kipswolfe ! 😃
yes, you're right of course - it is a common sense actually. although these things indeed are being discussed a lot, as can be seen. that's the reality! a lot of people do use auto-upvoting as well as "trails" (i.e. groups / clubs upvoting each other and some other posts) which I guess are not much different, if at all from "auto"m in sense of "content indifference" or shall we call it "blind curation" (when person upvotes without even clicking on post title to open it)
here is now, as if RIGHT now, going on LIVE discussion of SteemIt Witnesses:
https://steemit.com/msp-waves/@aggroed/steem-witness-panel-starts-in-1-hour
I'm listening to it out of curiosity. let's see what will be discussed and whether or not this subject or related to it will be one of the topics of their discussions.
I especially like one particular point you've made:
spot on! 👍 thanks for pointing this out. basically, it IS and Advertisement indeed. which is aimed to cover both expenses on such advertising + whatever others (such as the STEEM coins "Powered Up" = de facto Invested into the System for certain period of time, as in HYIPs)
however it is business, precisely calculated actions which provide those people BETTER ROI than if they won't use it. 😃
that's why they do it! because it allows them to Earn more. AND their posts get more exposure, i.e. views
(than many others or themselves, without using bots etc) so, it pays off !
alright, I'm gonna pay more attention to that Live online meet-up of Witnesses.
the question asked just now and being answered is quite relevant and interesting:
"How we can stimulate GROWTH? to increase number of new users?" 🙄
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Hi @vimukti-ananda
As a follower of @haccolong this post has been upvoted by @hoaithu's Curation Trail.
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thank you and your team! I appreciate it. I have exchanged few words with @haccolong already and thanked him as well.
Thank you @vimukti-ananda for recommending me those few posts. I obviously cannot upvote since it's already to late.
But it was a good and easy read. Right before bedtime :)
yours
Piotr