@thecryptodrive here, I'm back and active again after nearly two weeks of relocating to a new country and dealing with my daughters tonsils operation. I'm a bit frazzled but happy to be active again in the community. Thank you to @marcgodard for covering for me during this time, the public liaison and daily posting duties are mostly mine, while Marc handles the coding and product improvement.
We at Steemvoter.com enjoy giving back to the community, which is why we have decided to, on an adhoc basis, donate up to two of our weekly payment votes to worthy community projects. We have so far voted on the following posts:
@SteEMPOWERtwins Steem Brand Ambassador and Live Talkshow Sponsorship
@steempowertwins/vote-for-steempowertwins-as-steem-s-first-brand-ambassadors
@steempowertwins/steemlive-introducing-live-talk-show-hosted-by-the-steempowertwins
@steemsports Giving Tuesday Charity Post
@steemstem Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) curation project
In addition to the above curation initiatives, we think there is scope for more collective curation using the collective Steemvoter community voting power. Typically a problem on Steemit is that one's vote does not influence a post very much unless you are a holder of a whale account and even whale votes aren't as powerful as they used to be.
Trying to get people together to collectively upvote deserving content is currently much like "herding cats" and not at all easy, however if everyone is already on Steemvoter, we have a powerful, easy to use curation tool.
My proposal for now (until we have a better solution) is to opt-in all Steemvoter users into an "extra vote per day" curation guild with the option to opt-out. Perhaps larger SP whale accounts can be given the facility to limit their vote weight.
I was in talks today with professional curator @instructor2121, who I have invited to our private channel to help guide the prospective Steemvoter Guild and aid in the discovery of worthy content over-and-above our two weekly sponsorships. There are also other members in the channel who helped contribute to the crowd-fund as well as others who have shown an active interest to assist us in various ways, all of the members of our private Steemit.chat channel will be in a position to guide the direction of this guild.
With nearly 5 Million collective SP, we feel that we can create one of the most effective guilds on Steemit and really make a difference. United we can stand for change and make Steemit a fun place to blog, in the hopes of receiving the honorary Steemvoter Guild swarm vote!
Please let us know what you think of this idea and if you would like to see the opt-out additional daily curation vote guild put in place.
Steemvoter is a public curation bot with an easy to use interface, it truly is a bot for the people, making automatic curation on Steemit easy with just a few clicks.
This is a payment post! Thank you for allowing us to use your accounts to upvote this post! Anyone not signed up for SteemVoter.com is welcome to do so or just vote this post to help the project.