Introduction
At Steem4Nigeria, we were delighted to see the update by the Steemit team about the opening of application for the season 2 of the engagement challenge on our dear Steemit, we are ever Steeming and once again we'd like to make an application into the challenge for the upcoming season. In this piece of article, you'd get to know more about our dear community. We implore you to walk with us on this.
Steem4Nigeria's Purpose
Steemit is ever-growing and changing lives giving the privilege to learn, earn and increase their stake on-chain to become more independent with various initiatives set up by the team. New users also troop into Steemit to contribute to the growth of the platform, at the time our community was created, there were only individual communities created by Nigerians, the community was birthed by the idea of having a community that portrays the image of an official home for Nigerians on Steemit.
We created Steem4Nigeria to serve as the official home for Nigerians, that connects and supports people from this part of the world. As such, we can have these ones gather together under one roof and not continue being dispersed, they now have a place of their own. The community serves as the official community for Steemians from Nigeria to connect with each other, also, we accommodate our foreign friends too.
The History of our Community
At the moment of putting down this piece, the community is about 3.5 months (3 months and 16 days) old, created on the 12th day of February 2022. We made the first community introduction post on 15th of February 2022. From the inception of the creation, the activities of the community have been controlled by the founding members, also acting as the moderators.
Our Introduction Post
When the community was about two months ago, we deem it fit to launch recruitment for moderators that would be in charge of commenting and vetting, and in essence, performing curation on articles made in the community and on the 11th of April 2022, an announcement of two new moderators in the community was made.
Steem4Nigeria's Admins/MODs
The community has a total number of 6 Admins and these are the founding members of the community who conceived the idea and brought it into reality. A table below would be used to show each active member's role and their club status.
| User | Role | Club Status | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|
| @fredquantum | Admin | Club75 | Nigerian |
| @ngoenyi | Admin | Club75 | Nigerian |
| @xkool24 | Admin | Club75 | Nigerian |
| @reminiscence01 | Admin | Club75 | Nigerian |
| @whitestallion | Admin | Club5050 | Nigerian |
In addition, we have just 2 moderators in the community at the time of writing this. Let's see their list below.
| User | Role | Club Status | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|
| @goodybest | MOD | Club75 | Nigerian |
| @lhorgic | MOD | Club5050 | Nigerian |
We intended to bring in moderators from another part of the world into our team, unfortunately, no application was received from any. In the nearest future, we would be looking forward to recruiting more moderators (including our friends of different nationalities). Interaction with articles made in the community is being done by moderators and admins also assist in the process, as such we have full capacity to handle moderation in the community.
Community's Curation Account
The creation of our community was accompanied by the creation of an official account, @steem4nigeria. @steem4nigeria has since its inception been our main curation account with delegations from the founding members. The account has a total of 14,891 SP at the time of writing this article.
The account has been used to support articles published in the community, in this way, we show our users that we appreciate their works and thereby encourage them to do more.
Founding Members' Contribution
| User | Delegated SP | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @fredquantum | 1,500 | ||||||||||
| @ngoenyi | 2,300 | ||||||||||
| @xkool24 | 1,500 | ||||||||||
| @reminiscence01 | 2,000 | ||||||||||
| @whitestallion | 2,500 |
| SP Type | Amount |
|---|---|
| Total SP | 14,891 |
| Owned | 1,549 |
| Delegated by Admins | 11,000 |
| Delegated by Others | 2,342 |
The delegators including the founding members are 20 in total at the moment of writing this article. We look forward to strengthening our curation account sooner, as such we might set up a curation trail in the nearest future while we would continue encouraging our members to delegate to the curation account.
Account Keys
The posting key to our curation account is shared with all the Admins/MODs for vetting and curation. In addition, @fredquantum and @ngoenyi have the entire curation account keys, as such, no transaction involving the use of keys like active key, initiated without a consensus reached between the two.
Policy of Checking Articles
In the Steem4Nigeria community, we employ a few parameters for checking articles published in the community, this enables visitors/readers/curators to have an overview of an article. Some of the parameters used are as follows;
- Verified User: We check if a user is verified as we go through their achievement posts before verification. This feature is indicated when vetting the articles.
- Steem Exclusivity: We ensure that published articles in the community have not been shared anywhere before. As such ensuring their articles are #steemexclusive.
- Plagiarism-Free: Articles published in the community are properly checked for plagiarism and the result is indicated during the check.
- Club Status: We ensure that articles made in the community are checked to see the status of the publisher and the result is indicated.
- Bot Free: We ensure that our users are not the ones involved in buying votes, this is properly checked and only the ones marked clean are being considered for our support.
How the Community helps to improve Users' Quality
For the time being, one of the ways we help users to improve their quality is by vetting and leaving adequate comments on what they should improve on. And sometimes, we direct new members to the newcomers' community to learn a few things from achievement tasks before they begin their journey fully in the community.
That being said, we have enough capable hands on ground to roll out tutorials out for the members as regards creating suitable content in the community. We have been creating content in the community to enlighten our members about the Steem blockchain and we would do more.
Why We should be chosen
There are a few things that make us more suitable for selection in this second season of the engagement challenge organized by the Steemit team. Let's see some of them below.
- We are new and the number of active members in our community contest with some old communities.
- The entire team members have been dedicated to the growth of the community, as such quality content is shared in the community which would definitely trigger engagements in the upcoming contest.
- Many of our team members are on the verge of leveling up their club status and this would pass a strong message to the community members on the importance of belonging to one and contributing to a healthy Steem ecosystem.
- If given the chance, our community might end up as one of the most successful and strongest communities on Steem. As such, this contest would draw more members and make us more established.
Conclusion
In conclusion, we have been able to present a few things about us in this piece of article, the state of things in our community including our commitment to continually support the community members and contribute positively to Steemit development at large and other things discussed therein. At this point, we humbly present our application for the second season of the engagement challenge and we hope we'd be selected as one of the lucky communities. Thank you.
Admins Contact Details
- Discord: fredquantum#3622.
- Discord: reminiscence#0353.
