Hi friends! Hello Steemit Team!
I have been looking forward to writing this report because I think I have a great idea that I want to share with you. And its implementation does not require major changes or the allocation of many resources.
Art
I don't know why, but I often think about our platform as a whole, what can be done to improve something in it, attract more authors and readers, make it more successful. Although with my capabilities I could of course limit myself to only one or two communities. But no, for some reason my flight of thought is full of being much broader :-)
I think everyone agrees that if good authors with quality content receive good rewards on Steemit, it will only benefit the platform. As far as I can see, the Steemit team and a large part of the community are actively working in this direction. But I think we missed an important detail.
Here again the question arises: "What is quality content?"
Is telling about your day quality content? Many will say no. And indeed, if in each of the author's posts we read about brushing teeth and cooking eggs, it can hardly be called a very interesting post. However, as a curator, I have seen dozens of authors who can write interestingly about their day, focus attention in the post on certain non-trivial events or situations. After all, if you constantly follow these authors, reading the diaries turns into something similar to watching a series.
What am I leading to? Above, I just gave an example that the issue of content quality is very subjective and it is very difficult to say exactly what quality content is.
In order to somehow define the scope of the curators' activities, the teams prescribed a requirement that in order to receive support, the post must contain at least 300 words. That's fair, since the rewards should go to those who work on the post, but what about the visual art? Is it quality content? How much time does it take to write 300 words and how much to draw a picture?
It so happened that as an author I was formed in the creative community WORLD OF XPILAR. And this despite the fact that I am absolutely ignorant in art. But thanks to the openness of this community and support, I even became a moderator there. For more than two years in this community, I have seen many works of art, and when the Steemit Engagement Challenge spread in the community, I submitted the process of determining the winners. Then real professionals discussed various details of the competition works and believe me, creativity is a real science. Even photography is not just pressing one button, it is a full-fledged and quite complex art.
WORLD OF XPILAR has many professional artists displaying their work. Is it quality content? Yes of course. But these posts are rarely accompanied by 300 words of text. Sometimes artists just don't have a word as well as a brush, sometimes they lack time, sometimes their works speak for themselves. But such posts will almost certainly not fall into the sphere of attention of the curators.
Another question: "Are curators capable of competently evaluating a work of visual art?" I don't. And most curators can't either. And therefore, this requires people who are well versed in art.
Artists are very social people. Often they are quite famous. They have cool accounts on Instagram, Facebook and other social networks. They are trying to blog here and could bring their fans here. But if their posts receive a reward of $ 1, it seems that their creations are not needed by anyone.
Finally I came to my suggestion. We have several curatorial teams. Among them, two are specialized. I propose to turn another team of curators into a specialized one. Let this team only support visual art. Of course, for this, it is necessary to recruit people who understand art into this team, and I am sure that such people will be found. I had a substantive conversation on this topic with a professional photographer @xaviduran and he has already expressed his willingness to participate.
My activity
There were no significant changes here. Since my report is already too long, I will try to make the rest as concise as possible:
I am a moderator in the WORLD OF XPILAR community. Here I publish the WOX Community Blogosphere Magazine. Also, every Wednesday I am responsible for booming. And I am actively involved in the activities of @wox-helpfund.
I continue my Steem promotion activities. I have an X account and an Igstagram account.
No matter how many commitments I have, I try to post first because I love to do it.
- I do Power Up and I'm in #club5050.
I think I will finish my report with this. Thank you for reading.