We are issuing a general call for authors
for Steem Trail Daily
for Steem Trail Daily
The Introductory issue of the Steem Trail Daily received 89 eyeballs.
This is what Steem Trail is all about, getting eyeballs, minds, people on the other side of your post. There are bots that can give you more blind votes, and that’s not altogether bad, but it’s not what we do. If you show up on a Steem Trail vote, you can feel you have done something that is a notch above what others are doing. Because actual people with actual eyes evaluated it first.
Authoring a short article here can bring those eyes to you too!
We are soliciting two forms of short articles, primarily from Steem Trail curators but also from featured authors and anyone who has a comment or question about SteemTrail.
- The first form is easiest for you, a three to five sentence statement or question about Steem Trail. Bring up any relevant topic, and I may edit it for applicability to other content. This also comes with an incentive of 20 TRAIL coins above the inevitable eyes that will see your name prominently displayed.
- Three to five paragraph discussion on some part of SteemTrail or the curators and authors of SteemTrail. For this we are offering, in addition to the recognition and respect sure to come your way, 80 TRAIL coins.
- Follow the SteemTrail trail on Streemian.com. If you haven’t signed up yet, go to Streemian, set it up and pick “steemtrail” as an operator. For each vote StreemTrail makes on your behalf, you’ll receive one TRAIL. We’re averaging about 80 votes per day, with expectations of eventually approaching 100. NOTE: If you are using another reliable method (ie. CLI wallet or voting bot) to follow SteemTrail, please let us know and you will be included.
- Write great content. The author of each article that the @SteemTrail account upvotes will also receive one TRAIL. SteemTrail (or one of the other trails) will leave a comment indicating that your article was upvoted, which will serve as your claim to one TRAIL.
- Participate in a SteemTrail. SteemTrail Curators that are active in at least one trail will receive participation rewards of 300 TRAIL per week.
- Author content for your trail. 200 TRAIL for each article.
- Join the SteemTrail Discord server.
- Check the existing trails to see if there’s one you want to become a part of. If there is, check to see if folks are already managing it and engage with them. If nobody is managing it yet, then feel free to start doing so and building your own team.
- Set up your Open Ledger account. Once you’ve done so, go to the "open-ledger-account-add" channel in SteemTrail’s Discord server and share your account information (OL account “my-username” and Steem account “my-username”).
- Set up your Streemian account. Once you’ve done so, make steemtrail your operator (you can choose more than one, but be aware that your voting power gets diluted when you vote more). Or, if you’re using a bot or CLI wallet, let @instructor2121 know in Discord.
- As your team grows and your topic-trail matures, you may want additional features or see opportunities for us to provide more tools. Let us know, and we’ll do what we can to help you grow.
Below you will find all the information you need to start enjoying the community and using the curation of SteemTrail and the many sub-trails. Links to this information will be here every issue, but take a minute to read it now to see the range of opportunities available. Add to this the very good chance to be highlighted in this daily format post and not just as a "We voted for this user" list, but featured, interviewed or reviewed, with your recent work highlighted for our readers to notice.
Again, welcome, and we hope to see you here (in this space) soon!
"Trail and Trail, what is Trail?"
As an incentive and as a reward, SteemTrail has created a tradable token for our community - Trail Coin. It allows the admins to equally recognize the efforts of authors and curators regardless of their Steemit status. It is currently available via an Open Ledger account and has trading pairs with STEEM and other cryptocurrency.How to get TRAIL?
You can earn TRAIL via participation rewards or by trading on Open Ledger. TRAIL is deposited into your Open Ledger account by StreemTrail.
Currently, there are four participation rewards for TRAIL.
What to do?
SteemTrail serves as a facilitator and incubator for the many trails and their teams. It’s our goal to provide the means and tools for groups to build a strong category based presence and curation team, promoting their passions and the Steemit community as a whole.
Have fun! Steemit is a great community. And your participation in the SteemTrail initiative will help to make it better and propel it to the next level.
Thank you for helping to make SteemTrail successful. Together, we’ll continue promoting participants and the Steemit community as a whole.
Thank you for helping to make SteemTrail successful. Together, we’ll continue promoting participants and the Steemit community as a whole.
Good .
All for one and one for all! Great instructions, projects and, most especially, incentives for the ones participating into the new projects as well as the old ones. May the force stay with us all.
All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
ooo the wheels are turning.. with ideas ;)
Have something ready by this coming monday at 3PM EST!
Hi @steemtrail, I just stopped back to let you know your post was one of my favourite reads yesterday and I included it in my Steemit Ramble. You can read what I wrote about your post here.
Excellent post @steemtrail
Reesteemit the post to contribute in the diffusion
Thank you so much!
Has nothing to thank for is a great project and an excellent challenge, it is worth spreading it.
Happy day
17 views including me but 223 upvotes.
interesting................
There are 6 users.. including you actually engaging on the post. I wouldn't worry too much about the upvotes or the views the post is reporting.
These comments and interactions are what really matters
Interaction is very important and thanks for commenting!
But I did bring up the topic of eyeballs in the post itself. That's really what SteemTrail provides. Steemit covers publication and comments, SteemTrail can provide readership and evaluation by people who have an interest in what you are writing. As of now we are up to 70 reads by real human beings.
That's the steemtrail vote, which represents a few curator eyes. But 17 eyes on is more than many posts get in the first 23 minutes.
interesting.......
I'm going to reread this, interesting ... Might be good for my posts @loosechange.
for crypto conent (not STEEM oriented) but blockchain/bitcoin always check me - i do 1 post every day
Great read, understanding this better, however one question still, how can i convert trails to steem? @steemtrail
This post has been ranked within the top 25 most undervalued posts in the first half of Feb 02. We estimate that this post is undervalued by $11.29 as compared to a scenario in which every voter had an equal say.
See the full rankings and details in The Daily Tribune: Feb 02 - Part I. You can also read about some of our methodology, data analysis and technical details in our initial post.
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Come and join me on the NON-PROFIT trail !
What can we do with the TRAIL coin ? Can we exchange it for a crypto ? Concretely, what is it used for ?
Yes, you can exchange it for several kinds of cryptocurrency including Steem and BitCoin. The trading is very new and has it's ups and downs, but it's a viable coin. As an added incentive to the readership, and votes in Steemit that we provide, it allows SteemTrail to reward curation, curating, and participation in SteemTrail a little more equitably. Everyone gets the same amount of Trail Coin for what they do, regardless of SteemPower or etc.
Thanks !`Another thing, to unlock your account on steemian it says :
And for unlock the account you need active private key (The active key is used to make transfers and place orders in the internal market.). Then why not the posting private key if it's only for voting and posting ?
Hello @lastminuteman,
You are asking a great question that confuses many and I should probably write a distinct post about why Streemian works this way. Let me give you a quick recap.
In order to automate voting and posting for users, Streemian (or any other service) needs posting authority for that particular user. There are two ways of obtaining it:
a. obtain the private key (or password) for the posting permission of a user
b. let the user add another posting authority to the users posting permission
While a) is certainly the easiest to implement and get started quickly, it comes with a bunch of drawbacks, the most significant one is, that it exposes a massive security risk. If the server that stores the private keys for hundreds of users is compromised, all the users are compromised with the only exit of requiring each and every user to reset the password to lock out the attacker.
On the other hand, in case of b), you have the advantage that you, instead of letting people add actual keys to the authority, can ask users to add a specific account to the posting permission. That account can then obtain additional posting permission for your account. The obvious advantage, of course, is that streemian.com doesn't need to store more than one key (besides the fact that you don't need to send a private key over the internet). If that key is compromised, Streemian.com can simply change the key for the
streemianaccount and all the clients are secure again. Now, the actual drawback here is, that in order for users to add another posting authority (e.g. thestreemianaccount), they need to update their account. This requires the active key at least.The webpage we have developed does exactly that. It obtains the account from the blockchain and modifies it by only adding the
streemianaccount to the posting permission. In a couple weeks, we will see other implementations that can do the same (piston can do that aswell today), such as busy.org and steemjs.com. All of these implementations have in common that the active private key doesn't leave the browser and only signs an account_update transaction to be broadcasted to STEEM.Hope it makes sense to you now. Cheers
Thanks, I will consider to join streemian :)
It should be noted that in order to act as a curator on streemian guilds, you don't need to authorize streemian to use your account! At this point in time, it isn't even required to verify your STEEM account. This will change once we have steemconnect integration ready at which point authorization will become a breeze :)
That's a great question. While we use, appreciate and recommend the service, Streemian isn't our baby. That's @xeroc's. Hopefully he'll see the mention here and pipe in.