Sndbox-alpha
@sndbox, our lovely incubator, is setting up new curation trail. The trail will be controlled exclusively by volunteers from the first @sndbox’s cohort. It will start with a huge 30k SP delegation from the main @sndbox account in order to become powerful enough to spread some love to the rest of the community – and that means YOU! It wouldn’t be @sndbox though if its endeavour wouldn’t be somehow “special”. And @sndbox-alpha will be special!
The changing themes
Current curation trails on Steemit are either rather stagnant. They are controlled usually by one influential user that received “trust” in form of follows on his trail. Those trails usually vote for the very same users all the time (which isn’t anything bad of course, if the content is good). Example of such a trail is @gavvet’s one.
Or they are sort of a multi-user accounts owned by influential person or group, that pays its curators for the curation. Those curators are usually a full-time workers for the trail (meaning that they do the job manually every single day). As always, people tend to like some topics and themes more than the others, therefore even though the trail votes on more topics than the really stagnant ones, the chosen topics that are continuously receiving the support are usually still sort of the same as long as the curators remain the same.
@sndbox-alpha’s plan is to change that! It has set up “monthly themes”. Curators at the beginning stated their “fields of expertise/interest” and teams of 3-4 focussed users have been created. Those teams will change every month, along with the theme. I admit that I do not possess complete knowledge about all the trails on Steemit, but I find this approach innovative. This month we start with “Art and Music” theme. @heymattsokol has written a good explanatory article few days ago, so if you want to stay informed, follow him and @sndbox-alpha. You will also find a tutorial how to follow the trail yourself when it’s still young if you want to earn some extra curation rewards in the @heymattsokol’s post!
Philosophers and writers of @sndbox
March will be the time for all the philosophers and writers of Steemit to show off their skills. The role of curators during that time will be executed by @guyfawkes4-20, @anomadsoul, @martibis and myself. Make sure to follow us all too if you want to stay informed about our transparent progression.
Even though our shifts start in more than 2 months, we have already started preparing ourselves, because we do not take such a responsibility lightly. We are of course in no rush, but it can’t hurt to slowly start discussing important matters. As of now we have agreed on the working background where all the communication will be done. Right now the matter of possible disagreements is being discussed. It seems that we have disregarded democratic voting (we are 4, that makes it really inefficient method) and taking our SPs into an account. The remaining options for us are now either 75% or 100% consensus. It would be awesome to hear your opinions too! Not all of the curators have yet stated their opinion, therefore the matter is still open for discussion!
And that is basically it! You now have been informed about everything that has been going on, or has been decided, up to date! Tell us what you think about our new Steemit’s trail:).
