The Delegation-Curation experiment using your Steem Power - driven by the King himself - data.
Hello sleepy dolphins and whales
I know you are out there. In this blog I hope to persuade at least 1 of you to delegate me some Steem Power to help further our community.
If you are not 'all in' with bots and/or don't have multiple hours each day to curate, I bring you an alternative....
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The people come... they write... they go - This is the Steem blockchain through the eyes of Steemit today.
The current average daily accounts created is just over 1000. source
On-boarding is in place - @stellabelle's doing it, #promo-uk are doing it - at a large personal expense. We even have users holding usernames in place for big YouTube players - a guest list entry no less.
All good. Carry on you excellent Steemians.
So, why aren't the number of new blogs increasing in line with these new accounts? Are these accounts Bots? Secondary accounts?
Perhaps it is partly this, but another major factor has to be the new users putting in time and effort to produce blogs that just slip by the wayside.
This has to stop. @curie knows this, @muxxybot knows this, @dse knows this, @qurator knows this, @ocd knows this, and hopefully all you big time Steem Power holders know this.
So, what's the plan? Delegate to a bid-bot? Can do - That has helped raise my rep for sure, I'm thankful for that.
However, what about the newer users unaware of these bots and not quite up-to-speed with the @curie guidelines?
What about the new users that are just 50 words and a 'source' tag short of a curation that would give them a months' further encouragement?
These accounts are the future dolphins of the platform and the future on-boarders - they just need that early advice and encouragement to 'stick with it'.
Are you with me? Cool. Allow me to expand - with numbers and pretty charts.
The number of accounts exceeding 50,000 (vested) Steem Power who have not managed a vote in the past 7 days?
74
The number of accounts exceeding 50,000 (vested) Steem Power who have not managed a vote in the past month?
63
Reasons for this?
Account = @steemit. Fine, take a number off.
The majority though are user accounts, just sitting there, sleeping.
Maybe the content isn't to their liking?
Maybe they don't want to earn 1 million % interest like the bid-bots are offering.
Or, maybe they are keen to see this platform succeed and just haven't got the time or the patience to seek out quality work.
Well I do... I have time to curate, encourage, and enlighten - what I don't have is the financial boost are new users need to keep them writing.
And if you haven't worked it out by now. This is where you come in.
For the past few weeks, I've been getting my head around SteemSQL, the lovely Database representation (by @arcange) of what is happening on Steemit and the Steem Blockchain.
It is here I found the data above, and it is from here that i will now state my case for receiving a delegated Steem Power boost to support, develop, and keep our new talent on board.
My goal going forward is to curate and comment on content (blogs and comments) that I feel are worthy of a boost -
for authors that require a few pointers to get them on their way.
Isn't @curie doing this already? Are you not stepping on their shoes? Yes, and no.
We can never have enough curators of good content on this platform.
If one article with cited quotes, sourced images, is well written, and clearly original content, is missed, then we have failed.
We have also not done ourselves proud if we do not support those spending the time to respond to these articles with well thought-out responses and good knowledge of the subject matter.
I will digress slightly to tell you that this is one of my pet-hates, and I'm sorry @suerisue, I mentioned this to you 11 days ago and you are currently 3 blogs, 7 days, and 56 comments without a single response.
This has to change if we are to improve.
Sorry.... back to the data.
In the past 7 days I have voted 543 times and for 193 different authors. My Voting power currently stands at 81%.
This chart represents the spread of my votes (vertical axis), against the reputation of the accounts I have voted for (horizontal axis).
Currently I vote in the main for accounts around my rep. Actually, at rep 63 currently, the majority of my support goes to accounts lower than myself.
This chart represents the weight of my votes (vertical axis), against the reputation of the accounts I have voted for (horizontal axis).
Currently, the average weight of my vote seems to be 10-20%, and in the 50-70 reputation range.
What I want to do is take this a step further and support accounts producing good content who are at a lower reputation.
If you delegated Steem Power to me today, these charts with marked improvement towards the 30-40 reputation range would be your proof that I'm doing good things with your Steem Power - Or your money back.
With additional Steem Power I'm confident could do this. And not only would I be up-voting, I wish to educate also.
For the past few days, and with the help of SQL data again, I have been curating and commenting on articles that I feel have been written well, and by authors that have promise.
As well as curating for @muxxybot for the past month, I (with the help of @carlgnash ) have been using the SteemSQL database to seek out content that could be worth a more detailed inspection.
With this (ever-changing) query, I've passed on a few articles to people 'in the know', and their work has been rewarded.
Further to that, I've commented on the blogs that I felt had promise and detailed some simple methods for the author to improve further. See 1, 2, and 3 for details.
It is here in which you could gain indirect value from your delegation. See area highlighted in Red.
Can you see the potential value in this?
Are you willing to delegate Steem Power without direct financial reward for the good of the platform?
Go on, I dare ya.
If you are a dolphin or a whale who is sat on Steem Power and does not have the time to curate then this could be for you
I wish to use your Steem Power to support and encourage good content
I will provide comments on methods to improve this work and future articles
I will reward good comments/replies, especially by lower rep users
I will add your username (as per the above image) to show that you have supported this content
I will provide you, the delegator, weekly (or ad-hoc) numbers, links, and charts that show that I am supporting the 'right' content
If you are not happy at any point, pull the plug
If you are interested, have any questions, suggestions, or ideas on the above, please let me know in the comments below, or find me at:
Steemit.chat: abh12345
Discord: abh12345
Or just delegate me the SP and I'll get to work!
Thanks for your time
Asher @abh12345 - Steemfest attendee 2017
All data was extracted at 8pm - UTC+01:00 - 29 October 2017