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Sometimes, we just want to have a bit of fun, and visiting Steemit should be no different.
We might just want to start a conversation, share something funny, or canvas opinion without worrying about our content being rated (You are a sheep: ✅) or judged harshly with comments like, "He's getting $30 for that 💩?" This can damage our reputation and discourage light-hearted posts.
While simply declining rewards is an option, it prevents our loyal supporters, especially those with auto-voting set up, from earning valuable curation rewards.
The Solution?
By setting the beneficiary on your post to @null, you can post low-effort content without upsetting your followers or the guilt of "I shouldn't be getting $30 for this shit" and at the same time, continuing to reward your followers with curation rewards.
The Essence
The whole point of this community is to start a conversation and have some fun. It's a place where you can scroll through short, light-hearted, and potentially entertaining content with minimal rules. But there are some, and if you don't follow them, your posts will be muted.
The Rules
- Beneficiary Requirement: @null must be set as a beneficiary with a MINIMUM of 90%. The remaining 0% to 10% can be kept by you, reflecting the effort that went into your post.
- Appropriate Hashtags: Posts that use shitty, inappropriate tags will be muted.
- Photos: No photos of flowers, the sky, or any other uninteresting generic shit that you've been posting elsewhere.
- Engagement Focus: It's all about conversation. If your content consistently fails to spark engagement, you're a goner.
- Read the Rules: If you post without reading this, you're a goner.
- You read the Rules: Well done. It's time to share whatever you think the funniest thing in the world is.
We tried something like this before, with Share n Burn, but I think the rules here allow for more variety and creativity. I'm glad to give it another run.
FWIW, I believe that @mod-bot can be configured to automatically mute any post in a community that doesn't have a null beneficiary setting for the minimum threshold value. It can also be configured to automatically pin posts that have null beneficiaries above some threshold.
I think the ability for an automatic mute is great (the rules are easy, though). But - please, please - no pinned posts!
I wasn’t aware of Share n Burn and it definitely looks like this is aligns with that - perhaps more extreme!
Is mod-bot your creation? I was thinking about writing one along the same lines, which would also reply to the post to say why it’s been muted but if you've done this already, sign me up!
@cmp2020 wrote the code for mod-bot a couple years ago, before he got overwhelmed by his double major at college. I've been using it to pin posts with null beneficiaries and post promotions in the Popular STEM community ever since then (see [Popular STEM|Announcement] Expanding our barebones visibility service - 5 pinned slots now available!).
Reading through the introductory post again, though, it doesn't look like auto-muting was enabled yet. It was on the to-do list, but maybe he didn't get it implemented. I'll have to check with him on that. Maybe tomorrow.
I get the point from @chriddi about pinning, but modbot just randomly cycles the posts through a configurable number of pinned slots (which can be as low as 1), so it doesn't get stale or induce a lot of unnecessary scrolling. Maybe it's not really relevant for this community, anyway, but as a general concept I still think it's useful.
That’s the next thing I’ve started working on the interface. It’s proving difficult but the idea that there’s a fixed, defined, portion of the page (at the top) for pinned posts so whether you’ve got 1 or 100, scrolling’s minimised. Much like the communities on my other interface.
The muting would definitely be useful. I don’t always think to check the beneficiaries and it’s not possible to view them until a vote’s been submitted (as far as I’m aware - not on the interface anyway).
Ah, now I get it... an oasis of happiness and light-heartedness ... to enter by invitation only ;-)
I was astonished that I had already joined the community... until I saw that it was the former ChooseGame community... ;-))
Joy and happiness and utter, utter nonsense. Where pointlessness can thrive in the name of entertainment.
I felt that the 3 STEEM community creation fee was too great a barrier to overcome.
Does it really cost 3 STEEM to create a community? I didn't even know that.
But then that's understandable... if we can't swing a frying pan any more ;-D
I think so. It's been a while since I created one now - I keep rehashing old ones 😆
If I can think of a more efficient way of making the game, the frying pan will return. I think that the apartment block idea was too much to start with.
The former former former No community, the former former Oasis, the former Zombie town... ;-)
Ach ja, die Zombie Town... das waren noch Zeiten... schade, wo meine Bratpfanne doch gerade so schön warm war...
Witzig war's schon. Bisschen Druck und Unwohlsein schlichen sich aber auch in den Tagesablauf... 😱😂
Dear Oasis Master,
this is your Admin speaking...
I have a suggestion concerning the rule "Beneficiary Requirement".
Please change it to
@null must be set as a beneficiary with a MINIMUM of 90%
OR
@null must be set to 80% while @du-finanzbot must be set to 20%
The second case has a lot, lot advantages.
Your sister @hive-146118 would be 5% happy, the commentators would be 5% happy, the developer @moecki, who created DUBby, would be very happy (without a reward background) and the curators anyway.
I will explain more if you give me a sign that you have not understood the German DUBby instructions.
Nice comment!
You got a trailvote from me!
I hoped that you'd find this community. You belong here.
With DUBy, what happens if the author doesn't finanzebot any of the comments? Or doesn't finanzebot them up to 100% (or 20% if they set a 20% beneficiary)? Does finanzebot keep them?
DUBby keeps the SP-rewards and whatever he does not pay out because the author missed telling him to do so.
If @du-finanzbot is set to 20%, @deutschunplugged votes automatically.
The 20% are the new 100% for DUBby's calculation.
Example: 1 STEEM to share, 3 commenters
c1 shares great thoughts - !finanzbot 50% (0,5 Steem)
c2 comment is blabla, but I want to share - !finanzbot 25% (0,25 Steem)
c3 was to get another 25% but he became an a... and I want him to know - !finanzbot 1%
DUBby keeps the rest of 0,24 STEEM.
I think this sounds like a most splendid idea 🙂
Fine. Gonna spread it...
Vielleicht hätten wir für die internationale Verwendung als Befehlswort besser
!dubbynehmen sollen, anstatt!finanzbot.Oder vielleicht beides...
Im Laufe einer modernen, kontinuierlichen Weiterentwicklung dürfte dieser Plan nicht zu spät sein... ;-)
Und - ja, leider - wohl auch nötig, wenn man sich so die "Orthographie" eines interessierten Admins anschaut... :-))
Genau deswegen 😎
Ich Verstehe Nichts. Bitte Sie Fur Me Die Changen Machen?
I promised "tomorrow", but three days later I still can't manage the explanation. I'll just do it in my next Oasis post. After all, I'm an admin - nobody can do anything to me... 😎
#burnsteem90club #clubdubby20null80
Tomorrow.
...if you like them and finally give me the keys.
The most funniest thing in this Steem universe?
If I understand correctly, the rules of this oasis are mainly about burning as much STEEM as possible. I heard a rumor that it's good for the stock market to do this. Not to mention the fun it apparently gives some bloggers. It's a commendable initiative. You're burning your STEEM to make mine worth more. Keep up the good work! Please burn your stake too if it helps to overhaul the HIVE course in the long run. It has already succeeded briefly once: on May the 2nd:
Sadly, you do not 😔
Sadly not. Okay …
Gimme input!
...you can post low-effort content without upsetting your followers or the guilt of "I shouldn't be getting $30 for this shit"...
Thank you for typing something I've already read in the rules of this community that still remains incomprehensible. Oh dear, I should set up a course on assertive behaviour to save your sacred income. I can't help the people who started this community based on a misguided opinion. They are burning the STEEM to be free to express themselves. This is a very interesting short circuit that leads to the deepest depths of false morality.
Perhaps I can help you. Because you once willingly followed my sophisticated theorems on how to deal with the blockchain. What you write and vote on the blockchain is your business alone. What other bloggers write and vote is their business alone. Anyone who is simple-minded enough to make moralising comments about writing and voting behaviour isn't very bright anyway. Why do you want to do these poor fools the favour of burning your well-deserved reward? That's the question!
Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. Thought you had overlooked the self-declaration in a hurry. In my hurry... 😉
But to be honest, we weren't being completely honest: we just want to avoid dealing with scammers, beggars and arseholes in general. We certainly achieve that, because those types who smell stinking bucks 10 miles upwind aren't going to turn up where they can't expect a single crumb. Taht's all... 🤷♀️
YES!!! Just as it is my business alone for which I would like to receive rewards or not. My business alone what I want to annoy other (friendly) users with or not.
Opah°! That's not a sentence from my advanced Steem school for sophisticated bloggers. It must be a communist slogan from the dark past of an unsatisfied student life. I can't see any logic in it.
Please, somebody save me.
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trollbearytronbeary needs saving? 😛