I hope I didn't ruin your summer break by encouraging you to apply for curation. 🤭
Curation is as difficult as creating content, only if you do it fairly. It's an experience in itself to see this side of the picture.
Huh! Curation challeneges. We have already talked about this topic off-chain and I told you how the curation was a little better when we had themed teams. But after reading this post, I have been thinking about what else can be done.
These little notes you share are a great way to send the message that you are doing great, we are watching you, and you will do better if you give back to the community.
Steemitblog clearly revoked all the rules this time (prohibition of plagiarism and AI is not a rule, it's content ethics). I understand it's up to a team to decide how they want to curate but it seemed like most teams shared the previous list of rules as guidelines. So, technically we are at the same place where we were last month.
Many interesting initiatives are going on in different communities but the posts are not searchable or every other post is under #thediarygame or contest specific tag.
I was hoping that community leaders encourage authors to use tags more wisely. Using #club #burn #steemexclusive or any other tag that doesn't align with the contents of a post is of no good.
Curators check your content exclusivity and club status anyway. No matter how boldly you convey your status.
If we ask authors to use #club in the first 4 tags or we share in the guidelines that we are only going to curate #club then we are sending the wrong message...'we prioritize your club status over your content.' Really???
Curators are equally responsible for low-effort content. Curators should check #club, by all means, I also check it but I don't evaluate a post solely based on it . The quality always gets higher weightage. We shouldn't highlight club as a rule and send the wrong message to the authors.
Quality of content is very subjective, if a below average author is a curator, he/she will curate accordingly. Maybe, next time, instead of looking at the SPs, @steemitblog should choose top authors for this role. 🤔
Thank you so much, Hira, for stopping by my post and further elaborating on my points. I owe you one ;)
Mine felt more like blabbering. I wasn't in the right state of mind. The Greens losing to the Blues in cricket last night made me so sad, and to top it off, I had a not-so-fruitful day at curation. Lol. I wanted to say so many things, but I had to limit myself so as not to give away my state of mind. 😂😂😂
I agree with you 100 percent. Although I'm not sure if authors would want to curate. It takes so much time, especially if you do it fairly. My mind, at least, stops making sense after a while with curation, and I need at least two days to come back to my senses. Apologies for the exaggeration, but yeah, you kinda get what I'm trying to say!
This experience will definitely help me improve my writing and posts, and I am eternally grateful to the team for this opportunity. It's not that I chose to rant and complain; rather, a few people have recently followed me, assuming I will curate their posts. I wanted to share my opinion with them and others. I hope it didn't come across as a complaint or a rant.
Thank you for your feedback really and also putting up with all my queries on my day of curation 😎