Steemit relies on curators. It’s a simple process really. Authors write and curators read, engage and upvote. If we didn’t have curators Steemit would not work. But there is a difference between a curator and a great curator.
Steemit is about rewarding authors for awesome content. A great curator will seek out awesome content and reward that content. The more awesome the content the higher the reward. It’s not easy to read post after post and decide what is good and what is not good. But that is what a great curator does. What is easy is to vote for friend no matter how good the content. This is not curation. This is just voting for friends. A great curator will move outside his own circle to find the best content.
Steemit has been designed to reward great curators. For those of you that don’t understand how it works, let me try give you a very basic explanation. When you see the payment on a post, this payment is to be split 75% 25%. 25% going to curators. How much of this you get as a curator depends on a few things. Your Steem Power is one factor, as this grows your curation rewards also grow. But the timing of the vote is also important. If you find a post and upvote it before a whale or even someone with more steem power than you, then your reward will be higher.
So a curator comes along and finds some awesome content. This curator votes on the post and maybe even resteems it. The curator has a reputation of being a great curator so other people want to know what’s so good about that post. They read it too, and upvote it and resteem it. But because the curator had an early vote, they have maximised their curator payout.
That’s the very simple explanation. It is a lot more technical than that and includes a timing curve where by the best time to vote is 30 minutes after the post was published.
What I have experienced with the Indonesian community is a shortage of great and awesome content curators. I have also experienced an expectation gap from those joining Steemit. Many people seem to think all content should be rewarded. But we will discuss that in a different post, I don’t want to get side tracked.
I also feel it is because of the lack of awesome curators, the Indonesian community are posting in bad English. They are doing do because they know there are English curators and like everyone are trying to attract that big vote.
I also know from speaking with @mrday that some people just want to practice writing English.
I believe that the community of Indonesia should post in their own language and feel assured they have people to read their content and votes will come. I also believe, if they have the ability, they should posts bilingual and not just in English. This is only my opionin and I do not want to be telling people how to post. But I look at the CN community and see they all post in their language. I just hope people from Indonesia don’t feel like posting in English is the only way.
So over the next few weeks we are going to grow some awesome Indonesian curators. At the moment I am preparing something with @abh12345 and I will be making an announcement on our discord server first.
If you think you would make an awesome Indonesian curator (or already are an awesome curator) and want to be involved, hop over to discord and say hi and stay tuned for our upcoming announcement. here is your invite to join our server https://discord.gg/8NeRA . When you join, please do get involved and engage with the community in the general chat areas because it is the people that engage with us that we tend to help.
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