At some point today, either before or after I finish writing this post, the OCD team will publish their two posts of curation highlights for the day. They will arrive at issue #142 of the original OCD DAILY and issue #58 of the its younger sibling, the OCD INTERNATIONAL DAILY. By my reckoning this makes 200 issues in total, through which they have highlighted some of the Steem blockchain's brightest content creators, with an emphasis on undervalued and original work.
It's a monumental achievement, backed up by large numbers. Since the very first issue came out on July 5, the OCD team have featured over 1,500 posts from more than 1,200 individual authors. There have been posts on a whole A-Z of topics, from animals and anarchy all the way through to zeitmanagement, with over 1,500 different tags represented. Post payouts on featured articles have surpassed $30,000, with significant contributions from the @ocd account and from team leader @acidyo.
There's another, less showy, but perhaps even more impressive figure. Being featured in the daily highlights and a surprise payout of $20 is a valuable boost for new users, many of whom may still be considering their place on the blockchain. An analysis of user retention shows that over 80% of users featured by OCD are still active on Steem (73% have posted within the last 14 days, 84% voted within the same time period). This is a huge percentage in comparison to the 10% user retention seen overall.
If you're more of an investor than a creator or reader (or perhaps you're all three) then the size of the curation rewards may be more the figure you want to see. The structure of OCD upvoting, with both the @ocd account and @acidyo delaying their upvotes, allows curators to frontrun these large votes and so benefit from increased curation rewards. There are possibilities for curation percentages of over 50% of upvote and upwards, representing a great opportunity to increase your own rewards whilst at the same time voting on posts that are of high quality.
Whether you're a creator, reader or curator, the above numbers suggest there are benefits to be found in the OCD structure. The project also improves user retention for creative newcomers, which helps generate more great content, which helps attract and retain more users. It's a virtuous circle that should contribute to the growth of the blockchain, to the benefit of us all. Long may it continue!
Top Featured Authors
The OCD team have featured over 1,500 posts from more than 1,200 individual authors. The vast majority of authors are featured only once but there are a lucky few who are repeat achievers. Here's a table of the most frequently seen faces, together with their main topic of posting. Go check out their work!
| Author | OCD | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| @bucho | 4 | fiction and poetry |
| @cizzo | 4 | short stories |
| @eonwarped | 4 | dogs and travel |
| @negativer | 4 | fiction and poetry |
| @rt395 | 4 | science, travel, and japan |
| @steemit-foodie | 4 | food and coffee |
| @stortebeker | 4 | homesteading, sustainability and mexico |
| @superfluousman | 4 | philosophy |
| @derekrichardson | 5 | nature and travel photography |
| @kikka190389 | 5 | photography and all things italian |
| @tinypaleokitchen | 5 | fiction and paleo nutrition |
| @lindahas | 6 | short sci-fi/fantsasy stories |
| @oendertuerk | 6 | science and mystery |
| @whatamidoing | 6 | life and community |
| @therovingreader | 7 | travel stories with a twist |
If I've misrepresented anyone in the above, just let me know!
Top Tags
The OCD curators cover vast ground in their search for undiscovered talent. An analysis of the tags of featured posts results in over 1500 different topics: there really is something for everyone! The following chart shows the most popular tags (ignoring the less descriptive life, writing, blog and steemit tags) but there are many, many others.
User Retention
An analysis of user retention shows that over 80% of users who have been featured by OCD are still active on Steem (73% have posted within the last 14 days, 84% voted within the same time period). This is a huge percentage in comparison to the 10% user retention seen overall.
Here are the figures for OCD curated authors:
| Commented | Posted | Voted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active in the last 14 days | 951 | 892 | 1026 |
| Total Users | 1219 | 1219 | 1219 |
| Percentage | 78% | 73% | 84% |
Curation percentages
For the curation study I've used the rewards from this absolutely fantastic post of manipulated photography by @bonaventurehoste. It's past payout now but still worth checking it out! It was featured in OCD Daily #134:
@bonaventurehoste/the-upside-down-a-photography-project-a-reflexion-of-the-medieval-city-of-ghent
The chart shows the “curation reward / upvote value" ratio for each curator on the post as the orange diamonds (left hand axis). The upvote values are shown as blue columns (right hand axis - the larger upvotes are too tall for the chart). The x-axis shows the time in minutes of each of the curators by order of upvoting (this axis is not to scale).
There's $2.10 of upvotes that took advantage of the curation rewards prior to the @ocd vote, with an average "curation reward / upvote value" percentage of 82%. Although the capacity isn't huge on each individual post, there are up towards 20 posts a day to vote on!
That's all for today, thanks for reading!
If you want any other figures on this or other subjects let me know in the comments.
