Wings
Some thirty moons ago, I made a habit of taking time to appreciate content created and shared on Steem. As a complete newbie to the crypto world, what attracted me most to this place was the spark of creativity and the wonderful community of people from all around the world supporting each other unlike anywhere else on social media. I was inspired to become one of them. What does that mean? Becoming part of the community means not only to take from the community, but it also means giving back to the community. Community is not a get rich quick scheme. Community is not a place where people scream into their endless voids with their tailored for masses content they boost to the stratosphere with their bought votes to extract the most value as they deem entitled to without doing any of the work of building trust and relationships.
For the first time in a long time, it appears there is a wind of change in the air. Community is killing the bidbots as the downvotes are finally used for policing the overrated, brainless extraction of value on the platform. Bidbots are forced to morph into curation groups or will simply cease to exist. Not gonna lie, it has been entertaining to observe those who have previously relied on the profit through bidbots having to change to the ways of the new curve and 50/50 distribution and put in some actual work. But M, didn’t you also use ocdb all this time? Yes, I did and powered it all up to curate manually with it and to support the community as it has supported me. I have been curating for two full years as I was part of OCD and now @curangel.
Haven’t you heard yet? @curangel is the new curation guild in the town brought to you by the long term witness @pharesim in the wake of the New Steem. Actions speak louder than words. @pharesim has set the example and has delegated his entire stake to the project growing at a rapid pace. The team now consists of 23 curators covering most of the timezones, different languages, and supports many communities of various interests. How does averaging with about 700 upvotes on 600 unique accounts per week sound like? Pretty damn good, right? This is how the distribution should look like. If you put out decent content chances of @curangel visiting your post are pretty high.
What qualifies as decent content? While the ways different curators would define quality content vary, most of us agree that content supported should show signs of passion, authenticity, and effort. Curators are spending hours looking, reading, figuring out what is what. Mad respect to all of you out there! What you do is not easy, but that is exactly what proof of brain is all about! Community doing the thinking and deciding what is valuable and what isn’t. You are Steem’s consciousness.
@curangel was designed to serve the whole entity of community - authors, curators, and delegators. Authors receive our support and recognition for their efforts, 20% of curation rewards, which is not a lot, are going towards curators for their hard work, and 80% of curation rewards are going to our delegators who also can suggest overrated content and abuse for downvotes daily. Pure New Steem there! Follow @curangel for the project updates and our daily compilations of all curated authors, visit our website, stop by our discord for a chat with awesome Steemians, and consider becoming one of our angel delegators. Help us to raise the value on the platform and spread more love all around the ecosystem!
For the first time in a long time, it appears there is a wind of change in the air. Community is killing the bidbots as the downvotes are finally used for policing the overrated, brainless extraction of value on the platform. Bidbots are forced to morph into curation groups or will simply cease to exist. Not gonna lie, it has been entertaining to observe those who have previously relied on the profit through bidbots having to change to the ways of the new curve and 50/50 distribution and put in some actual work. But M, didn’t you also use ocdb all this time? Yes, I did and powered it all up to curate manually with it and to support the community as it has supported me. I have been curating for two full years as I was part of OCD and now @curangel.
Haven’t you heard yet? @curangel is the new curation guild in the town brought to you by the long term witness @pharesim in the wake of the New Steem. Actions speak louder than words. @pharesim has set the example and has delegated his entire stake to the project growing at a rapid pace. The team now consists of 23 curators covering most of the timezones, different languages, and supports many communities of various interests. How does averaging with about 700 upvotes on 600 unique accounts per week sound like? Pretty damn good, right? This is how the distribution should look like. If you put out decent content chances of @curangel visiting your post are pretty high.
What qualifies as decent content? While the ways different curators would define quality content vary, most of us agree that content supported should show signs of passion, authenticity, and effort. Curators are spending hours looking, reading, figuring out what is what. Mad respect to all of you out there! What you do is not easy, but that is exactly what proof of brain is all about! Community doing the thinking and deciding what is valuable and what isn’t. You are Steem’s consciousness.
@curangel was designed to serve the whole entity of community - authors, curators, and delegators. Authors receive our support and recognition for their efforts, 20% of curation rewards, which is not a lot, are going towards curators for their hard work, and 80% of curation rewards are going to our delegators who also can suggest overrated content and abuse for downvotes daily. Pure New Steem there! Follow @curangel for the project updates and our daily compilations of all curated authors, visit our website, stop by our discord for a chat with awesome Steemians, and consider becoming one of our angel delegators. Help us to raise the value on the platform and spread more love all around the ecosystem!
Song of the day: Grimes, i_o - Violence
Thanks for visiting my page @m31 , leading me to this post of yours which is a good synopsis of how you think about Steemit at this point.
Your are most welcome @angryman :) It's been a while I've thought this way and now as the community has a bit more say to how things should be, it feels like future of Steem looks a lot brighter.
It's looking more promising to me as well, in certain ways...
The angel wing is so pretty. I love it. The contrast of white on black is very eye-catching. It looks like the shading was done by letting the black of the paper show through the lighter strokes. Is that right? I don't know art stuff. It looks beautiful though. The pattern visible in the shading is just really satisfying too.
It's been really satisfying to watch @curangel grow from its beginnings so far. Born from the minds of people who truly put their fellow humans first. You are one of the most dedicated, hardest-working curators on this platform; I know this firsthand from our time in OCD together. The extra mile is not extra for you. It's just what you do. You pour your passion and dedication into everything you do, from creation to curation, and that makes you awesome. Never forget it.
It brings me so much joy to know that you have found your wings.
Aww! Thank you lem!
Yes, since the only things to work with were the paper and the white watercolor pencil, I used layers to create the shadows. The first layer was the lightest one and the paper shines through. I wanted to create something with a softness feeling to it. I had almost forgotten how fun it is to use the pencils.
You know there are moments where people ask is it worth it? And while sometimes we feel discouraged and almost worthless, the answer is yes. It is same as with climate change. People think oh if I do these small changes in my life, it does nothing. Thought thousands of people at the same time.
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Here, here! Alien themed Fleshlights and anime titties for all!!!...Er, wait, is that not what this post was about? Shit. Guess I'll go make my own curation project, with morning erections, and 2d waifu's!
Ah @deadspace! Ahaha! I want you to know I appreciate your vibe like a lot! :D We could use curation project that is focused on all that what you mentioned too, so why not? Do ieeeet! xD
New steem is really cool. Just bought another 1k Steem to support these great people a bit more.
You are all doing great job at @curangel and thanks for that. I appreciate any real curator like you are.
Pew pew pew :)
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That is awesome whacky! You are one of the real ones too! :)
Thank you! Hopefully the project will keep growing and will have bigger impact soon.
I appreciate your work and effort very much, I know how hard manual curation is. What curangel and you are doing is a big part of my daily motivation to keep on posting content. Good time to say thank you.
Thank you so much @ivyfit! We inspire each other to keep going, but without people like you, curation guilds would not have a purpose so keep up the good work and thank you! :)
Hear hear!! #newsteem is mosdef doing better than the old. It is just mad fun watching community transform. This is how legislations well made and properly implemented can transform a country's fortunes. I wish some countries would take a piece of wisdom from what happened here and build communities that have a say in the government and the philosophical underpinning of the country as a whole. #curangel from one of my uncles rocks! Warpedpoetic say so
It has been over a month and for now changes appear mostly positive, yet there are still ways people try to extract most out of Steem using the curation as a tool, flocking their votes on the users that usually do well. People always look for the loopholes and shortcuts in every system.
Ahaha interesting thought. Steem as a country :)
Well not everyone has the time to manually curate and in truth manual curation pays more than following curation trails. I follow several trails; curie, ocd, curangel, sndbox, steemmonsters, etc but i make more steem when i curate manually. It may not be satisfactory but if the projects have good curators then making the project a proxy distributor of rewards from your account is not such a bad thing. It is still better than bidbots, circle jerking too.
Yeah the analogy hit me when i read your post. I was actually thinking of my own country when i wrote that.
New steem certainly has been a huge improvement and it's great that these new curation projects have popped into existence because of the changes. I've seen curangel vote for a few of my posts as well and I greatly appreciate it. I love how the steem community has really come together since the hard fork. It's awesome!
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Your content is amazing @leaky20 so there is no wonder! ^^ Keep it coming!
As it should be you know? Not passively sitting in their own corners and bubbles, but actively engaging, participating, and working together to create most awesome environment for everyone. Steem's power has always been the community and now it feels like we are finally having the full power again.
I am just glad that people with a keen interest in community like you plus a few other people on the @curangel make the team. Driven souls that drag those fighting to stay here back everytime they drift away. I personally admire ya'll :)
The wings looks amazing ♡
Thank you so much @tezmel! :)
People like you and others out there is a reason for projects such as @curangel! There is a lot of talk about mass adaptation and such things, but someone has to take care of those who are here to stay, creating wonderful, thoughtful things full of effort.
Very humbled to be counted :)
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