do you guys just want posts shilling pack sales?
Nope, I can think of plenty of other ways where I can create a content as a user of Splinterlands apart from just shilling packs.
Apparently, just spitting out in some places about the fact that Rebeliion will change the outcome of the game, does not really full fill the criteria. I do think that is just the way of trying to farm a vote. If this post was on an ordinary challenge/weekly post, curating would not have been an issue.
and I know there is no time for that curating these contests so I understand why you thought the post wasn't rebellion themed as you would have to read it to know)
That is quite an assumption I would say. I am not sure how you think the curation works but even with someone who has invested less $$/time in Splinterlands might get bigger votes depending on the quality of the post (Although quality is subjective to everyone). And of course there is clearly stated in the post to follow the rules as much as possible.
It just doesn't have a copy pastaed rebellion thumbnail so it requires actually reading it to know that
You are probably thinking otherwise. We do handle copy/paste post or any sort of abuse to the votes very strictly. There are a long list of users who are banned from farming votes. So that genuine and authentic users can get the best of these votes.
I hope I was able to clear some parts of your doubts that you are having!!
Thanks for getting back to me and clarifying a lot of this, I appreciate your time and genuine feedback. I would suggest the contest post itself needs to be more clear on the qualifications for a post counting as "A rebellion post" as most of this wasn't clear in reading the article itself. Will do in the future. I wasn't referring to a whole copy pasted article, mostly just people not even making a thumbnail for their post and using the one from the contest and still getting voted for sub 200 words posted in multiple languages ( or like in this one that talked about rebellion even less than I did, or this one that doesn't even talk about rebellion and was still curated) one only talks about Riftwatchers Airdrops but was still was curated this week the other doesn't even mention rebellion at all and just talks about tokenomics. Which is shitty because I used previous posts like these that got curated this week and last to craft my post around it "being rebellion themed enough". By curating those posts it gives the wrong impression of what qualifies or is desired in these posts. I know each curator operates differently, but when I look at the past weeks of curation this seems to be the trend so idk. Feels a tad like I'm being singled out or your fellow curators actually don't look at the content in the slightest. It's nice knowing that isn't always the case. I'll time my comment better next time. Cheerss and have a wonderful rest of your week.
The situation is sort of like
"the glass is half empty and half full"!While the way you are referring to the situation in one way. While I may as well refer to it in another way, like there are posts where users have followed the rules and created their respective contents according to the post. Thus their post got curated (some even quite heavily).
As a content creator myself, I always try to give my best in my contents rather than following those who gets hefty votes despite any effort. As being in here (HIVE Blockchain) for a very long time, I know deeply that anybody who can bring value to the chain (in any way possible ultimately gets recognized). It might take some time but its worth it. As long term perspective always wins.
As always, we are entitled to our opinions. That's what decentralized environment seeks, I suppose!
I guess tone is hard to interpret, I'm more embarrassed I even posted this into the contest when I thought it would be rebellion enough when looking at previously curated things as examples. I feel bad for even wasting everyone's time. I don't enter chontests without adhering to the rules, but this time they were sort of vague so I didn't know what qualified. I'm not sad, just feel embarrassed more than anything. Thanks for replying, the glass is centrally half full. I'll have something up again soon, Cheers