OCD Sportstalk Curation Incubation Update
Another crazy week in the outside world has passed and it is great to be able to escape by being on here. Saturday is when we see how the figures match up to the previous week as this is all about our Sportstalk tribe becoming bigger and better.
Lets see how the figures match up then.
2406 compared to 2368 7 days ago is a decent positive result and our interactions are way down dropping another 20% from 1109 to 873. This is not good as this is something as a tribe we can fix.
There was a post about Hive and Scorum collaborating which is good news as it means more people around, but I am sitting on the fence with this one. There was some drama a year or two ago with Scorum users on Sportstalk and most of them left for some reason or another. I was looking at their site tonight and a majority of the posts are spun content which you can find on any sports tabloid site so in other words very little originality. Many left because of receiving downvotes from spaminator and noticed some users that are featured on Scorum today posting in sportstalk are also being downvoted still. My thoughts are if you love sports you would not go down that road and do something different and stand out. Time will tell and I hope to God I am wrong on this.
As you all know Sports-Gov handles all the big decisions going forward on this tribe and in order to move forward we need users to get involved. Over the past few months certain proposals have been tabled yet nothing has ever been passed due to lack of voting. There is another proposal being tabled shortly by @patrckulrich and we need everyone's involvement. If you are a whale it does affect you as surely you want to see your investment secure going forward as these proposals are to benefit everyone.
I wasn't surprised when these previous proposals failed as how many users are actually reading posts? Comments and engaging with others is severely lacking with this week highlighting just that. 169 active users as in posting material can't even average 1 comment per day shows where we are right now. There are a few carrying the flag for everyone else and no wonder they are benefitting by being supported.
The @ocd curation program is here to support the community and being a community delegated curation program it supports like minded users. many of you are writing decent posts but are letting yourselves down by lack of engagement. Lack I mean in non existent where some of you haven't commented or replied in months and some even years.
This is the depressing part of the post highlighting how many actually received extra curation this week remembering we were doing around 30 -35 per week not that long ago. This week we had 13 including if we count tonight's ones that have been put through.
As a tribe we can do better and something that can be rectified if everyone pulls their weight. How hard can it be to do 2 comments per day and the numbers would be back over 2000 interactions where they should be.
Thanks once again to OCD for their valuable support as it does make a huge difference. If you have any extra Hive you would like to delegate then @ocdb would really appreciate the support. Until next week everyone have a good one and stay busy.
The way I see this, @cryptoandcoffee, I feel for the engagements on posts as an issue, I could be addressed with perhaps a sports contest whereby people would have to do a lot of interactive stuffs to win. I think that would go a long way though.
I don't think we need it as this is something everyone should be doing. If you know you cannot be curated because of this then what is the point in posting. Why post and earn 30c when you could be earning $20 0r $30 with something that takes 5 minutes to do. We all know in order to grow you have to comment and reply as that is what it is. Rewards shouldn't be given for something that users should be doing already.
Well, it's funny how many people I'm sure don't know that engaging is a criteria to get curated here and some don't even find it interesting to write a long post.
I wish they would read this weekly post as it isn't difficult to get curated compared to other tribes. Just do something decent and original plus engage with others.
But those this mean one could get curated per day?
The max is 2 -3 posts per week per user and we have a target of 5 per day. 5 is tough as so many don't qualify and if they could stop posting rewritten articles then they could all benefit along with some comments.
That's quite painful but trust me, things would begin to workout soon. I'll try to enlighten some by dropping comments on their blogs.
Please do as they need to realise what an opportunity they are throwing away. We cannot waste this time like many are.
@cryptoandcoffee what can really make a good post is it the amount of words used, images or content
Content is king and not something that has been spun. Look at last week how many posts featured Steven Gerrard and that is a total switch off. most of us read sports stories on Sky Sports for those types of articles and don't expect them on here. We are not professional journalists and should never try and think we are as we are not. Originality using your own words and thoughts could easily change one of the Gerrard posts but they don't and why they end up with little or nothing. Amount of words is not the aim either as this is more of a guide as a post with 200 words is more like a long comment and justifying $20 is difficult to fathom for the effort .
Thanks I really appreciate this response
Thanks for the update, at least i can learn from it, and make a post based on my opinion of one sport event or issue. I am not one of the most active member here, more over I am a new member with a little post over the week.
Also I just sign up for scorum because I saw you weekly update.
It's going to be very hard to decentralise a tribe as most people just want to post and have fun or earn rewards. They are not going to be around often enough or care enough about the running of the site. Myself included. I turn up every day but don't even see these proposals that you mentioned. A lot of users probably don't even know that they are happening.
Imo a tribe should be a centralised entity on a decentralised system with clear leadership, plans and a good team to put that into place.
It is a business and whileits great to have community involvement in that, nothing will get done waiting for them to get involved. The potential is still there and at some stage there will be a huge tribe for sports in the general Internet sphere and hopefully it can be grown in this one but it won't be easy.
I would like to see things just happen without having to go to a vote each time as everything should be done in the best interest of everyone involved. The vote thing hasn't worked once yet as it was meant to be.