IAT Lifestyle Curators' Guidelines & Curation Criteria

Dear Steemit Community, dear Steemit Team,

with heartfelt thanks for your trust in our previous work, we inform you today that the IAT Lifestyle Curators are ready to take up the challenge of curating with the community curation account @steemcurator08 highly motivated also in June 2022!

First, we want to thank @willeusz for two months of very good teamwork. You are a great buddy! Hopefully we will work together again sometime, as soon as your private affairs allow it again. All the best for that!

And so, in a small, yet very effective team, @alee75, @chriddi, @event-horizon, @o1eh, @the-gorilla and @whyshy remain, looking forward to reading and appreciating the best contributions of the community from the parent section "Lifestyle"!

LIFESTYLE And Other Hashtags

To keep it short and simple:
#lifestyle is our overarching theme.
This includes the hashtags #food, #garden(ing), #health, #leisure, #nature, #sport(s) and #travel(ing).
Each of these tags is searched twice a week by different team members - ensuring that no quality content slips through our fingers, that no topic is judged by the subjective feelings of a single curator.
We consider various subcategories (examples)- if you use tags that are appropriate to the topic and not completely off-topic, we will find your contribution... :-)

^{We just don't want to restrict the authors to specific tags as this might keep good content from us. Therefore, we will be checking all the relevant tags. If we come across a post without relevant tags but it comes under the theme, we will still consider curating it. Yes, we really read a lot, a lot... ;-)}

Curation Criteria

We have worked out some criteria, the fulfillment of which is a prerequisite for a vote from IAT and which correspond as far as possible to the requirements of the Steemit team.
Please make sure that you adhere to all criteria - only then you have a chance (no guarantee!) to be considered by us in our daily curation marathon.

• Write good content!
• Write at least 300-word texts and check spelling and grammar! ^{Recommendation: Don't translate automatically into a foreign language you don't know yourself. Stay authentic and write in your native language.}
• Power up regularly (Steemish: be eligable for #club5050, #club75 or #club100)! ^{Whether you use the club tags (correctly) or not, be sure that we check your status and alert you to errors if necessary.}
• Don't use buy vote bots or automated vote services, don't delegate to "high return of investment services"!
• Do not plagiarize! ^{Even single sentences that are taken from other people' texts must be marked as a citation. A clear indication of the source is obligatory.}
• Use only your own or license-free images! ^{The vast majority of images that you find on the Internet are subject to copyright. You are not allowed to use them, even if you cite the source.}
• Publish your post #steemexclusive! ^{You write your post for your readers on Steemit - not on Blurt, not on Hive (not even later as a copy). Please note: If you publish a post in another language on another platform, it is NOT considered #steemexclusive anymore.}
• Please don't mention the sc accounts or our private accounts unnecessarily! ^{We want to attract attention to you through good content. We interpret unnecessary mentions as vote begging - then our vote finger is usually paralyzed.}

Frequently Asked Questions

During our work so far, questions have regularly arisen that we would like to address here to avoid uncertainty and for the sake of the greatest possible transparency.

How do you detect plagiarism?

• Good programs and intuition! We are not afraid to translate conspicuous texts into several languages and compare them with different originals, even videos. @endingplagiarism is our best friend.

What do you do when you discover plagiarism?

• We face the user to it. If it is an experienced user or a "serious case", we inform the moderators of the respective community as well as the Steemit team. The sc accounts do not downvote, but we reserve the right to do so with our private accounts.

Why don't I get a vote even though I meet all the criteria?

• We do not vote if the post has already been voted by another sc account or a booming account.
• We vote a user maximum twice a week, even pay attention to whether he is frequently voted by other sc teams. We want many different users to benefit from our work.
• Possibly none of us like your post.
• We think you are an egocentric: you are only busy to write (several) posts every day, don't vote other users, don't interact.

Do I have to burn STEEM for a vote from you guys?

• No. If you're convinced that donating to @null is good for our ecosystem, do it. If not, don't. Don't use burning STEEM or the "modern" hashtag just because you hope to get a vote from sc01, that's silly.

Have we forgotten something? Just ask in the comments section of this article!
Don't worry - only persistent complainers appear on our internal blacklist... ;-)

To good cooperation!

IAT - International A-Team

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Gifs by @whyshy

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2022-06-01

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