As always, the liquid rewards from this post will be converted to SP an sent to @welcoming! for even more curation
Hey guys,
As many of you may know, I founded the account @welcoming 65 days ago. If you don't know what it is about, let me explain that to you real quick.
It is an account solely dedicated to find promising introduction-posts of new users and to upvote and/or resteem them.
The main reasons for this are:
- The tag #introduceyourself is spammed with tons of posts which don't belong there
- Therefore good intros get missed easily and don't get the attention they deserve
By following @welcoming I give existing users a chance to see a decent amount of manually curated introduction-posts without having to dig through tons of spam. This gives the new users more attention and makes it easier for them to get discovered by an exisiting user with similar interests or any other connection.
Since I think steemit is a lot about it's wonderful communities, I think helping to grow them is a step in the right direction.
That's what I am trying to do with @welcoming!
A look back at the first 50 resteems
A few days ago I thought that it would be really interesting to see how the people I have resteemed with @welcoming performed on steemit since then. Of course there is not THE parameter which can describe performance - That's why I have decided to look up the first 50 users @welcoming resteemed and note some values connected to their account.
That's what I have got:
- green = active within the last week
- yellow = active within the last month
- red = inactive for a month or longer
Let's start with the negative news - 18 of the accounts have not been active within a month. Most of them probably might just have lost the interest in the platform or stopped cause they didn't get the success they expected to get. Some of those accounts also may have just lost their password (since many didn't even claim there rewards to at least cash them out) and may therefore seem inactive - even if they might have a new account that is still active (If you know that for any of the users in red, please tell me)
Six users have been active within the last month but not within the last week! - Since their resteems have been around 60+ days ago, they have at least been active for a while and might just have stopped for now due to holidays, real life work, etc. Hard to tell a lot about those six. But since they at least have been around for one month, I would count them as positive resteem.
What is really great in my eyes is the fact, that 26 users I have resteemed a little over two months ago, are still active members of the community. That's over 50% of the resteemed ones!
Let me just highlight three of them who I personally still have contact with:
@sco: The first ever resteem from @welcoming may be one of the best ones made ever. @sco has contributed many well researched scientific articles since then. A few days ago, he even announced that he has helped to create a german subgroup of the popular science-curation service @steemstem. Congrats man!
@kevinli: This young dude from Melbourne has entertained a lot of users with his VLog and even helped to educated others about crypto mistakes by showing the ones he made. Since a few weeks, Kevin even is helping with the curation for @welcoming during the hours I sleep ;)
@cabernet: This American girl with roots in Nepal is stepping up against hate and violence towards woman with high-quality posts about regarding topics.
Are those numbers good?
Honestly, I don't know. I have nothing to compare them to. But I think that a rate of over 50% for users that are still active is a big number.
Most of the still active users would probably have done without the help of welcoming as well, I am not claiming to have any share in their personal success ;)
However I still think that what @welcoming is doing helps "good users" to get a smoother start into the world of the STEEM-Blockchain. And if it is only by helping them to get some extra SP to stop their bandwidth issues ;)
How does @welcomings future look like?
Bright, I hope!
Due to the free 10,000 SP delegation from @transisto (a huge THANK YOU once again!) plus the 10,000 SP I pay for (financing that by self-upvoting comments!), I can operate with quite a lot of power.
Additionally, the whales @acidyo, @ausbitbank and @pharesim are helping a lot with their votes! Thanky you guys!
As I stated above, @kevinli has been helping me with the curation for quite a while now. @security101 is also starting to get involved in the curation process + I will be looking for one or two more curators in the near future. So @welcoming should still be running smoothly even at the times where I will have less spare time!
Since I think it works fine and I have gotten positive feedback from others, the account will keep on with resteeming up to 10 articles a days (+50-60% upvotes) + voting with 20-30% on an additional 10-20!
Can I help?
Of course I am happy about all the help I can get!
You can help by:
- Delegating some Steempower (you will of course get your share in the curation rewards!)
- Vote-Following @welcoming (If you are a whale, even 1% means a lot to a newbie!)
- Manually voting + commenting on resteemed intros you like
- Reporting well made intros to @welcoming (via the memo function!)
- and whatever else you can imagine to help with :)
If you have any ideas on how to make @welcoming better, please tell me!
Until then, bye :)
As always, the liquid rewards from this post will be converted to SP an sent to @welcoming!