DecentMemes - about curation and some statistics and future development
Hey everyone!
Many of you probably already read about Decentmemes.com on @netuoso's announcement post about it, I just wanted to add some more details about it and its curation which has been mainly done by me since the site has been up and running. In his announcement post you can also read more about the upcoming roadmap of Decentmemes.com so go check it out if you haven't yet.
First off I wanted to thank @netuoso for his amazing dev work on the site and how fast he was with it. Since we've launched we haven't had any major issues and some small ones have been fixed really fast. The latest big changes to it which many minnows out there will also appreciate a lot are being able to vote through the site: decentmemes.com and being able to use the voteslider that let's you choose the vote you want to give to the memes even if you have less than 500 SP which currently is the requirement on Steemit.com to get the slider.
It now also offers a never ending scroll function on categories Hot, Trending and New and if you open the meme in fullscreen you can easily jump to the next or previous one with the arrows on the site or the ones on your keyboard.
The site is made to be as simple as possible and right now I am very impressed by how well it is working. A big shoutout to @beercake as well for the new and stylish design to the site! I can recommend him for future design work if you need someone to take a look into it, go give his account a follow to check out his posts!
Curation
As some of you actively posting on decentmemes.com may have noticed lately is that I have been manually voting on all memes so far which has been a ton of work and my voting power sure isn't looking all too great lately. :)
The project takes beneficiary rewards, 5% go to our developer @netuoso, 5% to me and the remaining 5% go to the account which will be rewards for the manual curators that I will be selecting for the project later. We are hoping to receive some help to increase our voting power towards memes as the activity is increasing. After only 5 days it has already come off to a great start compared to all the other apps on the Steem blockchain as you can see here:
We want to keep curation manual for as long as possible and in the future if scaling becomes an issue assign some steemians onto auto-votes that have shown to provide quality and decent memes on a regular basis. :)
After curating for some time I just want to say that the overall quality and originality has been getting a lot better. Some time ago I used to have meme-contests and compared to then it has become much better which I'm sure is also due to the increase of new users joining the platform lately! We are also planning on adding some "Know your meme" links to the popular meme backgrounds and adding more default Steemian and other crypto memes to the site, stay tuned for that.
Please try not to copy-paste memes that recently have been posted by other Steemians as I will start flagging those after repeated abuse. Another good idea if you don't want to clutter your main account with memes is to create an alt account for them, we are going to add a way to create accounts on decentmemes as well soon but in the meantime you can use steeminvite for simple and cheap account creation.
Thanks for reading and all the feedback for decentmemes.com!
Damn, that SP slider for the low SP users makes this a real killer app. Didn't know that was even possible, thought it was just something coded and applied to everyone everywhere. Sick! Keep us posted if there's any further way we can help, and hopefully the knowyourmemes links will help people stay somewhat with the nature of the spirit of the memes as they were intended, lol.
You should post more, yours have been some of the best so far. ^^
:D Thanks!!! I forgot to mention I was curious about the account creation function, for now I'll look into getting a steeminvite smurf for memeing. I was honestly worried for your health when you went on those ultra-kill voting sprees, wanted to give your mouse fingers a break lol. Be well friend!
Yo Acid, Thak you for all the curation. <3
nice signature gif lol
I've been dropping some memes and happy about the feedback from acidyo. I'm encouraged to make more
You know I literally never made a meme before this! Now the craft of meme-making is finally open to me. Decent Memes changed the game.
Did not realise you had been doing manual curation, great work on that :)
Who knows when i have the SP i can help out some day.
Haha loved this idea.
You always have my back ;)
Love memes and I know you love it too :P
Will be fun there ;)
And one more thing, make this decentmeme.com a bit more clear or add a banner that may attract the readers.
@acidyo i just sent you some love! Ill keep delegating more of the steem power i earn from your upvotes as i get them. Thanks for all you do!
Thanks man, I appreciate it :)
Make sure not to delegate too much tho so you don't run out of bandwidth and keep those memes coming. ;)
Np!
Thank you for sharing my meme!
Fair, 5% is not something big for the developers, and the rest of the big one can still be enjoyed by many users who get rewards, which are creative in their field. I will try to contribute ideas.
Is there any Tutorial on this website?. . . . I want to join . . . But Don't Know How. . .
this looks awesome
Just log in with steemconnect (requires your private active key) and you can generate and post a meme easily. I'd recommend checking out what memes are and how they are used first, though.
Thank you @acidyo for Help . . . . . I am going to Check
I hope there will be alot of Fun
I have prepared this tutorial if it could help:
https://steemit.com/decentmemes/@neupanedipen/decentmemes-com-meme-generator-for-steemit-a-short-review-and-a-tutorial
Thank you!
I tried using decentmemes.com a week ago but I didn't really understand how it works :D I will try it out again, because I like the updates. Endless scrolling is always good when it comes to memes :) So many opportunities to make a living by creating memes! The future is here, hehe...
Edit: When I try to press the button "Login via SteemConnect" nothing seems to happen.
I do did try it but I learnt I have to use it often as meme boom is coming.
In other words, this will be like a new competition for dmania am I Right?
It is quite different actually, we don't allow random gifs from the internet or just any image and we don't have a bot voting on whatever post has bought the most upvotes. :)
all right, I will be checking this out. Thanks