This week I was selected to be a Guest Curator for Ecency. It’s kind of a big deal for me since the Ecency account votes with over 1.1 Million Hive Power and receives probably 300 to 400 Boost Requests each day. This is a decent responsibility because Ecency is NOT a small project!
I had started looking into Ecency just over a month ago when I began Evaluating Ecency Interface and Point System. I was intrigued by how the point system worked and had begun posting through the Ecency website to try it out. I’ve been fairly impressed with everything so far though I was a bit confused about how some of my posts would get Boosted while others were Rejected. I made some enquiries on the Ecency Discord to try to understand what I was doing wrong (or right) and was encouraged by the ever-helpful @melinda010100 (an Ecency Admin) to apply to be a Guest Curator so that I could meet the team and see how things worked first hand.
This was an opportunity to have a bit of a peek behind the curtain and so it was a perfect way for me to get a better understanding of the Ecency project. I applied to be a Guest Curator for August (they cycle guests monthly) and was accepted. So the last couple of days I’ve been mostly watching how the curation team functions and I dipped my toe in the water to try a bit of curation work myself.
I’ll probably write up my full experience a bit later but the first thing I have realized is just the sheer scale of content that the Curation Team at Ecency have to wade through every day. Probably less than 50% of the 300-400 Boost Requests each day get approved and I think that a big reason for that is there is just not enough Voting Power to go around. The team is trying to keep the VP above 80% and that looks hard to do! A lot of Boost Requests are just for 150 points (the minimum - which is about a $1 vote value) but not even all of those can be approved. The team looks at a few metrics and reads through the submitted posts before deciding on whether to approve a Boost but the sheer weight of requests means that effectively curating them all is a HUGE job!
Anyways, I am appreciative of the opportunity and still pretty fresh faced but I hope to get a good handle on this new gig soon. I intend to be curating regularly for Ecency over August. If anyone has any questions about Ecency or it’s curation efforts then please ask away and I’ll try to answer as best I can with what I’ve learnt so far.