Hello everyone... It's been such a wonderful One year of continuos Health activities poised towards health awareness creation and promotion of safe health practices among all hivers. Fulfilling our aim to create a professional health focused community on the hive blockchain for health education and information. We had also sent out rewards garnered from supports from great friends like @Ksam,@melinda010100 @jaydr,@blackdaisyft and @sagarkothari88, and all our donors and sponsors.

Much of these was also successful because the community kept responding to the prompts and we got right on track fulfilling the objective. However for some reasons, we couldn't continue with this and had to double down on activities.

These reason could be summed up in the following,

Shortage of admins

At some points, admins began to have either one thing or the other to do in real life which were much celebrated too as we very much encourage healthy real social living and physical activities. This left a lot more work for fewer of us and it turned out more work left a lot more undone in real life. We knew we couldn't continue like this as it shouldn't be much of a burden running a community like ours except we may have over laboured ourselves somehow.

Support

We appreciate the much support we got from @ocd @ecency and the entire Hive community quite much. It went on to show how prime our sort of contents are. But the problem was that we began to notice some low quality posts not completely meeting the standards of our sort. Some of which were from most newbies and we didn't want to keep rewarding such posts giving a false positive feedback in the name of building a community. We could rather build a community to train them and show them how to best make posts.

Centralization

As much as we knew we needed to control some things in the community and set prompts, we may have restricted some who may have other things to say or post about but just because we had imposed some prompts, they now couldn't. We do apologize for this and ask for reconsideration of some of the new polices we ve included.

Finally, Publicity

When we had started, one of the reasons we started doing prompts was for publicity and Hive awareness that such a community exists, now we believe we have achieved that to some extent and can now have more open discussions about health topic you may want to share about and such as you may want to have a health professional's thought on it.

MED-HIVE CONSIDERED ALL THESE AND THOUGHT ..

HERE ARE THE CHANGES WE MADE

CONTINUE HEALTH AWARENESS CREATION

We have made good progress creating awareness, we promise to keep doing this however not as usual, we would come up with a way where more information being passed across are from professional sources and for professional reasons. This way we are ensuring the safety of our readers the more. Professional authors on our community will be contacted privately on this arrangement. We recognize every professional on the community and hope to get a good word from you all too.

NO MORE PROMPTS AND REWARDS DISTRIBUTION

We make bold to let this be known, there ll be no more prompts and post rewards in form of upvotes will now be our best forms of support and we hope to get more curators supporting great and deserving posts. We appreciate @ecency and every other donor to the @medhive and community account. All that's left of them will be powered up and used to support posts on the community. We will no longer be issuing out ecency points incentives and prizes for weekly participation. We believe the hive community is a place that fosters growth and supports quality impact. For the past year we have done much of this to encourage the community with incentives, now moving on we will depend more on the general way of encouragement while we aim at building our voting power, voting trail and support system in a way that is more passive and less burdensome for our admins. Ecency rewards will be consider more for in-house discord activities.

ONBOARD MORE PROFESSIONALS AND THE MEDHIVE HUB-UP INITIATIVE

We know that there is a demand for health authors on the community and one of the major objective of this community is to bring in more health professionals and create a Health Hub where professional health science discussions can happen on the blockchain and on a large scale and we all get to learn and be better at our duties. We know that no one professional can know it all and by the limitations in our various locations and knowledge base there are far enriching learning experiences better enjoyed else where. When we hub-up, we learn much more and can be better equipped to save lives.

OPEN UP DISCUSSION

We are opening up discussions for the community, no more prompts or restrictions of topics to post. Now everyone can be inspired to make their own post and this will help people post about health enquiries (not consultations) and have professionals take a look and share a few of their knowledge as well. Helping them, sure supporting their responses won't be a bad idea. That also means less work for the admins.

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By ALL these we exert far less stress on the admins who are also health professionals too and heavily laden with regular day work stress. It has taken a lot of sacrifice from current and previous admins and we are grateful for this.

We appeal to all community member to join us in pushing health care information and knowledge more on the platform as we have always done.

Rewards

We would like to thank our sponsors for the support provided 🙏

👉 PLEASE CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING: 👈

• Follow the rules of the community
• Subscribe to MED-Hive community
• Join our Discord Channel and register if you are a health professional
• The use of the following tag: #medhive
• Engage within the community through comments and supporting others.

We will consider engagement levels, writing quality, level of evidence, readability of the content, relevance to Health.

Important Notes & Rules

Posts are welcome from everyone in and out of the community, everyone is welcome to join the discussion. Feel free to express yourself.

1. Enlighten the community.

2. Equip readers to make healthy decisions.

3. Correct harmful health practices.

4. Encourage healthy practices.

5. Create and promote necessary health awareness.

6. Ask or Make a Health inquiry.

The post should contain:

• An English translation if written in a native language.
• If any external material or resource is used in the post, it should be well cited and ensure proper images tailored to your post are used and rightly sourced as well.
• If references are used, place the link of each one at the end of your post, in a way it's easily accessible.
• The use of the following tag: #medhive

Remember to engage with others' posts and let's make the community lively. Kindly share your post on Twitter with the #medhive and #posh tag. Make sure your account is registered, giving you the possibility to earn posh tokens and also spread the word of Hive to the community on Twitter.

Let's not forget the most important rule of all:

Plagiarism is not tolerated, you are solely responsible to confirm your information and source your references properly.

Join us on Discord

If you are a health professional (med-member)

Becoming a registered member is a way to ensure scrutiny of information and credential to keep our readers safe from harmful information. We ask you
all health professional members to join our Discord Channel so you can complete the registration process there and get your role assigned. We will be available if you need any assistance.

If you are a non-medical member

Non-medical members are also encouraged to join the Community and Discord. You will get a non-med role assigned and more importantly, you'll join in the fun! We welcome posts meeting the requirements of the community from you too.

Final notes

PLEASE CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN OR HEALTH PROVIDER IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH. AVOID SEEKING CONSULTATIONS FOR TREATMENT ON THE PLATFORM. YOU DO THAT AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THE COMMUNITY SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHATEVER OUTCOME.

To help support the community you can reblog, comment, upvote or even delegate to the @med-hive community account, using the following links:

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Also, you can join our voting trail and help us curate good quality content. We appreciate all the help we can get to reach out to more people that might benefit from our content and to reward our community authors properly.

Lastly, we want to appreciate the hivers behind the scene that made this community possible. Thank you @jaydr, @marilour, @palomap3 and @blackdaisyft for their work in the past and effort made for the community and for the benefit of all hivers.

Have fun and learn! We look forward to hearing from you all.