The Motherhood Community: Curation Guidelines [ENG – ESP]

Hello Hivers! The motherhood community is over a year old now and he have come a LONG way since we started, while I write this post, we have over 1347 members and have a lot of curators backing the good content created in our community.

We are always looking to improve and help our members be better, we are now regularly imparting lessons that go from how Hive works to how to make better posts, all this to help our community grow into a quality content reference in Hive.

I decided to create a guideline post to help all the old and new members of our community understand how our curation works inside our community. To start I want to thank all our amazing members who make such beautiful and quality content everyday and make our community look so pretty!

Writing a good post requires hard work and dedication. However, your posts do not have to be amazingly good in order to get noticed, they only need to be decent and meet our minimum requirements.

1 - Original Content:

This goes without saying that plagiarism will not be tolerated in any way or form, (this also includes copy/paste and recycling old content) you don’t need to do much research to make a good original post on Motherhood, you only need to share a little bit about your own experience as a parent or about having a parent.

2 - Sourcing and copywrite:

Along with the original content, you need to cite and source the content that isn’t yours, be mindful of the authors right and permissions needed to use the content, for example when using images inside your post, it doesn't matter if you source them if the image has a water mark or is stablish as not be of free use, DO NOT USE it.

3 - Clear Language:

To begin always write in a language you are comfortable with. We do suggest you use English along with your native language to help curators understand your content and to attract a larger audience but, keep in mind that translators are not magicians if you write wrong in your own language a word the translator will make the translation wrong as well, so we suggest you spell check your content before and after using a translator like google or deepl, we also suggest the use of Grammarly an awesome app to check your grammar and spelling here is a tutorial on how to use it -> English spelling tool - Tutorial

4 - Formatting:

Here is the thing, not only a well-formatted article would be easier to read, but could increase your SEO (search engine optimization) so it can help get your content more views and reach a bigger audience. It doesn't need to be super fancy and complex, in fact sometimes less is better, we just need it to be presentable and easier to read. Also, you should know that formatting includes your title and cover image not only the body of your post.

• Title: your title should be descriptive but not a description, a title ideally should be short and not 3 lines long, we also would like to ask you to stick to a single language when writing your title, this will help your SEO and will make it look better.
  Please don’t use in the title the name of the challenge or the week or day of the challenge you are making, this is not a requirement to be part of them, it just makes your title longer and is not needed.

• Cover image: Now with this you can get creative but keep in mind it should make sense and have relation to the content of the post and make sure the size isn’t too big for your post, a good size for a cover image is 500x500, also
  please don’t use the same cover images of the challenges done by the community we want originality and creativity not for all posts to look the same.

• The body of your post: this should be obvious, you need to make it easier to read for your audience. If you are making a post with several languages in it, make sure you identify, divide or just make easier to know where to continue to read after each paragraph, you can do this with the help of the citation command > or doing a two part post (top part one langue/down the other) or if you like you can use the double column like this post. Also make sure the size of your images are not too huge or are correctly align with the text.
  Will leave you here a tutorial for markdown that will help you with this -> 🌟ULTIMATE Markdown Tutorial🌟.

Meeting the basic requirements will help you get noticed by the community curators. But keep in mind, that creativity and engagement will be more highly rewarded.

This doesn’t mean you will be voted, but if you don’t then for sure you won’t be voted on by our own curators.

We are looking for improvement in the content made in our community and you don’t need to make it too fancy to show your creativity, but be original and that will get you a long way.

Now this part is super important for us, we want to increase the engagement in our community, we know mostly of the people who post in it are busy parents, but reading other members posts or just replaying to the comments left on your own posts will make you stand out amount the huge amount of amazing content made in our community daily. (this will also help you gain tips from our mods!).

This should be self-explanatory but, users who ask for votes, or bother any of our mods through any private chats asking for votes will be instantly ban from getting voted on that week. We read all the posts made in our community and we try to make sure all the quality content made in it is rewarded but since the number of users keeps growing and the quality of the content keeps increasing, we not always will be able to vote all, this doesn't mean you are forgotten but if you really want to catch our eyes to get voted on apply creativity to your post don’t do it by asking through dms to our mods to voted it.

That is it, those are our guidelines for curation on the @motherhood Community. We don’t ask for anything impossible or too much just some basics to make not only our community better but Hive!

If you want more info please go to our discord server and feel free to ask! Also if feel like you need help improving anything on your posts feel free to ask too, we will help you out! https://discord.gg/xwZfa8tCSm