I don’t fully understand the curation process...so with daily sneak the curators take turns and have their post of the week? How many curators are there? Are you involved in it? Who runs it?How much upvote do the curated posts get? I should learn more, I was nominated before but I get so busy and lose track of things.
Feel free to link me to a good description,
It sounds like your idea of curation is what I think most of us believe curation SHOULD be. I wish there were many initiatives like OCD that spread the work of curation through delegation but also focused on certain niches so we could all have our favorite curation group based on the kind of content we like.
I personally feel that having curation directly monetized deincentivizes good curation as many people who would seek out and upvote what they like instead try to upvote what will earn them money, even when it’s pennies. Instead curation posts should get support from users the same way other posts do. It’s important work but it only deserves payment when it’s done intentionally for the benefit of the community. That’s my unpopular opinion though :-D
Thanks for the support,come find us in the new chat. I just posted a link today.
Let me make that simple for ya, I know you are a busy man.
Anyone can curate the daily sneak, there are no regular curators, just people who come time and time again to curate. You could easily curate as guest curator yourself, and earn SBD rewards for doing so. It's a win win to all involved and the crew behind dailysneak is amazing.
I have curated like 4 times or so, been doing it once a week lately, highlighting many things that interest me of Steemians who need more reach and have gone too unnoticed for their amazing level of craft.
It is run by Joseph Savage, the guy behind Steem Basic Income. Any author who gets mentioned in the daily sneak gets one share in Steem Basic Income sponsored by sneakyninja, like you have when I mentioned you in my first or second edition.
The upvotes are still somewhat small, however the project is still in its infancy. But seeing what I have seen from Joseph, he is definitely one of the guys with the heart in the right place. And I want to support the project wherever I can. It facilitates great networks and oddly feels like a counter movement to the Spam and bitbot mania going on at Steemit promoting shitposts.
While I completely agree that monetary incentives do not always come in tandem with quality submissions, the vibe of the project motivates me to give it my best. Partly because those guest curators before me have raised the bar so high. I am part of a few regular upvote schemes, like qurator and so on. And so far the work of dailysneak and steembasicincome is my favorite. They have managed to walk the line between rewarding contributions and keeping the submissions top notch.
This, as I said, is largely due to the smart approach. A google doc has been prepared, dailysneak asks its guest curators to submit in markdown format, saving them a lot of time to polish submissions. Instead they go through your submission, throw out what posts they deem unworthy of featuring and publish the rest. I have sometimes submitted 5 posts only to see 3 of them make the cut. In this way the balance tilts towards quality, and the curation goes through another quality filter.
The details are written in every dailysneak post. But since you mentioned it kinda fell under your radar, here is the one that mentioned ya.
https://steemit.com/curation/@sneakyninja/the-daily-sneak-25-january-2018-with-guest-curator-paradigmprospect
cya in 5 ;)
holy crap, thats brilliant and i know the guy, hes in our chat!
i feel like an ass for not learning more before hand hahahah
Why don't you use that energy for something constructive instead and find a working method of cloning us. That way we could get it all done way more efficiently ;)