Thank You!

Response to this project has been overwhelmingly positive! Within the first hour, we far surpassed our minimum SP goal of 300SP and are now at well over 1000SP delegated. Thanks to several major delegators, we are now ready to begin the daunting prospect of educating Steemit users on how to properly tag content for discovery, one post at a time!

Our Next Steps

So what's next? Well, we're going to hit the ground running. Beginning today, our team is going to start engaging with content creators who are misusing the tags system to help educate and realign their tag usage to better sort their content and de-clutter popular tags such as #life, #writing, #health, #fiction, #artisteem and #art. You will see this account begin to interact with users by commenting on their post with tags that are misused and suggested tags to replace them.

Our goal is to educate and realign, not punish. All interactions from this account have been pre-written to be kind, positive and helpful to those we are engaging with. Because the replies are scripted, there will be very little organic engagement from this account (even though it is an actual person replying and not a bot). This is to make sure that no actions taken from this account extend past the post in question, thus preventing our participation in a flagging war of any kind.

In the event of action that may be considered unfair, we welcome civil and reasoned discussion in the #appeals channel of our Discord Server. We understand that flagging itself is inherently negative, however this should not prevent rational discussion. In the event that you do join the server in order to appeal a flag, please use the 10 minute cooldown on join to cool down and make sure that you are ready to have a reasonable discussion with our team. Unreasonable or demanding persons will be ignored completely and/or kicked from the server in accordance to the rules that govern it and our appeals process.

Your Next Steps

While we're doing our part on the front-lines, you can do your part to help by visiting our Discord Server and applying to assist with curation! Because @tagalong is a manual curation account, we rely on a manually discovered content feed to direct our efforts where they are necessary. Right now, we're running with a minimal team of curators and are actively looking for more who understand our purpose and are willing to help.

If you cannot help through curation efforts, delegation is another option. Though initial delegation fundraising for this project was highly successful, every little bit helps to further the reach and impact of @tagalong by minimizing malicious action against the account and reducing the VP required to counteract mis-tags. If you'd like to delegate to the project, quick links are available here. (Make sure to leave a minimum of 50SP undelegated.)
50SP, 100SP, 250SP, 500SP.

Final Words

We couldn't do what we're about to do without each and every one of your support, so again a hearty thank you to everyone who has up-voted the original post or delegated SP. Each and every one of you is a champion of a more organized and professional Steemit, and are the true heroes of this project.

Steady eyes towards the future,

The Tagalong Team