While I was threading about the curation system that I have on InLeo and Hive blockchain, I got the feedback that I was using a nice curation board. I simply loved the wording as a "curation board", so I have decided to start from there and transform that into an article. We all have our ways of engaging with others and also rewarding them through curation. Some might use flat curation numbers, others might use dynamics ones, but I think that is all quite interesting. And if I can add something to it I believe that our curation upvotes need also to be meaningful in value whether those are for short or long form of content. Or at least meaningful enough as if ours was the single upvote that comment or post to have a reward payout.
So, let's dive into my curation board used on InLeo - which rewards curated content with $LEO and the Hive blockchain - which rewards curated contend with $HIVE Power or $HBD. The board is quite simple and assumed the following numbers.
- 100% Upvote on Others Articles
- 25% Upvote on Comments to My Articles
- 10% Upvote on Threads
Kindly notice that not all articles, comments and threads get an upvote, but when they get is usually one of the above. There can be exceptional cases when even a simple thread, but a smart one might get even a 100% upvote. But still that's the curation board that I am using.
Another factor is that I like the engagement to be meaningful and those that are passing by and leaving a comment to know what they are talking about. Rather than saying something they don't know nothing about and for me to see than from a mile away, I prefer them to ask questions. Learn from it if you don't know and you want to engage, but to just leave a comment for the hope of the curation and not to be on the subject is something that I don't enjoy. But I understand that we are all so different and where that is coming from, just that I will simply not upvote such engagement. Well, maybe in some cases I will upvote such instances for encouragement and hope of change into better, but I usually don't do that mistakes few times.
Besides this it comes into place what kind of content we want to curate. And here there are a lot of options and depending on our affinity we may chose one or the other. Here are some example that a new curator and even a well established one can chose from.
- Focus on content that offers quality and useful insight - My self I tend to chose content that it is about own experience and offers real use cases and less on theory.
- Support new and emerging authors - This is quite desirable, only that it takes a lot of time to discover new good authors. I usually stay with those that already confirmed, but sometimes seek for new gems in the ecosystem.
- Engage with niche and interested topics - If I am not interested in a topic, I don't quite engage. So I think is better to focus on your interests, but keep an open mind of new type of content.
- Reward timely and relevant posts - This is about leaving a meaningful upvote when you encounter a valuable post and even one ahead of the market or before others. Repeating topics like presenting same news over and over again, it is not the way to go imo.
- Engage actively by commenting and sharing - Here I try to read and leave relevant comments. Also re-blogging such content would help promoting amazing discovered content.
- Leverage right tags and communities - Creating good content it is not enough and you need to set the right tags and communities in order to reach you audience. For example creating Splinterlands content without using the #splinterlands tag would be quite useless.
And I think there are many other curation principles, but if I continue I am afraid I will never finish this post. It is up to each of us to define how we do curation, maybe have a system and try to have fun and enjoy this activity. It is like giving back to the community or paying it forward, so think that these good deeds usually turn back to you as well. And sometimes ten-fold so better engage and curate!