1000 DAYS OF STEEM : The Communities Support Program
Communities will play an ever more important role in the future growth and diversity of Steem.
But we know they can benefit greatly from some support to help them flourish.
So as our second 'Spread the Love' experiment we are launching the Communities Support Program.
The Communities Support Program
We will be selecting a number of communities to join a trial for this Support Program.
As a starting point we will be able to support selected communities in three ways...
1. The Best of the Week Lists
Communities in the Support Program will be invited to publish each week a digest of up to 10 of the best posts to their community for the past 7 days.
Those posts selected in each digest will then receive a significant vote from either @steemcurator01 or @steemcurator02.
We will reserve the right not to vote on any of the posts in certain circumstances, particularly if they have used bid-bots or delegated voting services.
In addition to the votes on the selected posts we will also give a significant vote to the digest post if it is set to 'Power Up 100%' and posted through a general community account rather than through an individual's account. We hope through this to build up more voting power for the community.
2. Community Development Progress Reports
These will not be obligatory but the selected communities will be invited to publish monthly reports detailing how the Community has progressed in terms of content, activities and membership numbers. The reports might also outline plans for future growth and development, particularly in terms of recruiting new people to Steem.
Again if these posts are set to 'Power Up 100%' and issued from a general community account @steemcurator01 or 02 will give a substantial upvote to help build the voting power of the community.
3. Contest Vote Prizes
If the Community is running any open contests then we will be able to provide upvotes as prizes from @steemcurator01 or @steemcurator02.
The specific vote sizes will vary depending on the type of contest and the size of the community.
This support will generally be limited to one contest per week for each community.
Selecting the Communities for the Support Program
For the trial of this Program we are aiming to select seven communities to support.
We will consider both long established and more recently set up Steem based communities. Ideally they should be exclusive to Steem.
Our interest will mainly be in communities based around a specific topic or subject area - for example food, gardening, folk music, education, film, creative writing etc.
For the trial we will not be looking for geographic or language based communities.
Communities should ideally have at least two people involved in their administration and organization (as Admins or Mods). They should also ideally have a community specific account.
We will particularly be looking for communities with a clear vision, a plan for growth and development, and ideas for recruiting people to Steem.
This is another new experimental program so we will likely be tweaking and refining it as it develops.
We also welcome comments and suggestions from the general Steem community, particularly those involved in existing communities.
This is for communities operating on the blockchain with a hive-123456 type address - not for communities only operating offchain on Discord etc.
If you would like your Community to be considered for this new Support Program please post a comment below with brief details of your community.
Thank you,
The Steemit Team
Notes from the Community...
Weekly Food Contest
If you are keen on food check out @alikoc07's new weekly food contest. There is 40 STEEM to be won...
Biography Contest
After their successful first Netflix Review contest, @fendit and @belenguerra have followed up with a second contest in their new Writing and Reviews Community. This week the theme is Biographies....
Role Model Contest
@focusnow and @steemalive are asking people about role models in their latest contest. There is 60 STEEM in the prize pot for this one...
PLEASE DO NOT PUT ANY DIARY GAME LINKS IN THE COMMENTS ON THIS POST.
THANK YOU
The rewards from this post go to support the work of @fundacorazon and @littledisciples both in Venezuela.
Amazing and great news incoming almost every day for steem community on Steemit.
Spread the love initiative is a brilliant idea and launching this Communities Support Program another fresh experiment shall making the effort on buidling the community on steemit exciting and rewarding journey.
I would like to nominate our community @steemingcurators for this Communities Support Program.
This community has been catering on showcasing and supporting great quality content from all over the world through their participants in contest and challenges organize by the steem community, and we are now will stepping up our game to only support the community members under some strict conditions so we get to accumulate the community account @steemingcurators to 500KSP and beyond..
We buidl the community to buidl our steem, and only support those who bring value to the Steem Community and Steem Blockchain as a whole.
Everyone is welcome to the steemingcurators community but under certain conditions that we will announce soon.
BUILD COMMUNITIES, BUILD STEEM!
I would like to support @cryptokannon and this comment. The community @steemingcurators plays a very important role in our Steemit Community.
In behalf of the totally active Filipino people who are also on APPICS, I will motivate them too to participate in the contests coz it's kinda impossible for them already to keep up with thediarygame.
Sounds great
@steemitblog. Thank you for this initiative. We are really happy that you acknowledge the role of communities to Steemit progress and development.
SteemAlive is a community set up to help this platform Achieve the 3R's - Recruit, Retain and Reward users. We have made small but steady progress in the close to 3 months of our existence. We have one of the highest subscribers-to-active users ratio. (299 subscribers, 84 active). Just as we promised in our introduction post, we have been running weekly contests to drive engagement and retention. We have an active recruitment program. And our training center in the City should start working in the next 10 days.
SteemAlive has been so active that it mentored and produced a Country representative @njiatanga, who also doubles as our admin. We hope to achieve even greater things with this proposed support.
We are applying for this opportunity and hope to get listed. We promise to utilize this and any opportunity to grow our community, Market Steemit and help us achieve our vision.
More detail about our mission and vision is found on our website:
http://Steemalive.com
I would like to support @steemalive and this comment. The community @steemalive is an amazing community in terms of engagement and participation, it has one of the highest percentage of active subscribers who also post and comment that I have seen in our community. It also plays a very important role in our Steemit Community.
With your support, the rewards of the weekly cooking contest have been increased 3 times! I will continue to work to reach more users. I believe that people who have talent in sports, art, drawing, food and other categories will be more active by sharing their publications in the future and we will take the steem platform further day by day. @steemitblog :)
Bangladesh Community. Yes, the Bangladesh community.
It’s not just the community. This is a family. Our goal is much bigger. We have a lot of planning to reach that goal. We will apply them gradually. We have 345 subscribers and 100+ active user in our community. Our team has Appointed 60 to 70 members. However, we have regular communication with 25-30 users on Discord and Facebook. We are working to increase their quality. Because I think it's more important to create 10 full quality users than 100 low quality members. Our team is working towards this goal.
We discuss the problems of almost every one of us every day. We look forward to your support in making many of our steps a reality.
We started working on a big project of 600 steem a few days ago. Our goal is to create content creators. We have already identified 12+ good quality users. Out of our 100+ users, at least 50+ users are moving forward to complete the quality. Even though our country is small, one day we will make steem the most popular in Bangladesh. We will show the world.
We have one more plan of our own. That is, we will support the users of my own country by making 25000+ power in each account of 6 user. I will invest 50,000 Bangladeshi Taka (BDT) in 3 days. I will increase my power through #spud4steem contest. We also want to enable our community id @steem-bangladesh account to voting support.
We can ask Steem's help to implement the plan to create a total of 150,000 power in the account of 6 people.
We have already found some singers, artists and content writers in our country. I found a short film-maker here. I will join him in the next few days. Something special is expected of them in the future.
Hope you keep an eye on our favorite steem bangladesh community. Thanks.
Your ongoing contribution has been made me more active.
Thanks for connecting me on discord.
Your entrepreneurial decision on investment in BDT 50000 must be appreciated.
Your #spud4steem contest works well in increasing power up.
Put in me on progressive way
Your contribution to our team is enormous. Especially the way you all are helping our newbies.
I support the Bangladesh Community also as a very active recruiting, rewarding and networking community!
Nice to hear that you support it
Dear @steemitblog
Another excellent initiative. Thanks @shortsegments for sharing info about it.
Just one question:
what is initial time-frame for this particular initiative?
Would you think that it will last only one month or longer than that?
Yours, Piotr
@project.hope founder
@tocho2
@belenguerra
@girolamomarotta
@besticofinder
@tarpan
@toufiq777
@edlili24
@adeljose
@steemitblog
I have a question, and I thought you all might know, and this seems like a good place to have this info.
I remember years ago, Steemit paid in like 24hrs or something really fast, there was only 1 trending page and a hot page, no following people. So it was hard to find people.
Then they did the switch, because this is like a Delegated Proof of Work Staking chain. And came together to make it like 7 days and 1 month on payouts, so 2x if new votes gather. Then they did the payout/daily posts. So if I post 2x it is divided between the 2 payouts added together. So if 1 post is $10 and one is $0, I get $5. Plus curator rewards, etc.
How much of that still applies?
And...
What happens if I post in 2 groups? Or 1 group and my blog? Are rewards divided by posting to multiple communities?
We are working with some moderators to build a beautiful community. We have a long planning. We are always trying to keep our steem-bangladesh community clean. We are also running a fake user selection process. Hopefully we can prepare a better community. This is very important.
@stremitblog, I am so delighted seeing this contest.
I am a member of @steemalive community, and our main goal and focus is recruiting and retaining newbies to steemit and within a space of 3 months of our existence in steemit as a community, we have kept to our word, you can attest to that.
We have also kept to our word in hosting weekly contest to keep up in engagement and help our members in maintaining activeness on street.
Basically, my community which is @steemalive stands a chance and is qualified in being selected among the 7 communities for this contest.
@steemcurator01 and @steemiblog, this is my little piece and I know it will be considered.