Curation - Finding that Undervalued Content

It’s tough to find the good stuff, and just what is the definition of ‘Undervalued Content’?

That would be different in everyone’s mind. I tend to place it in terms of size of content / quality and to some extent how small the pending reward is.

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Does it tell me anything I didn’t know previously, and does it make me want to stop my ‘scanning habit’ and really read what the author has written?

Since HF22, we are all quite aware that curation rewards are much higher than previously.

In the past I have used a curation tool but to find scammers (thanks @daan), and bid bot abusers rather than quality content in an effort to combat bullshit posts.

It’s called steemlookup, was made by @curie and can be found here
More recently I have used the same filters to find articles that I feel are undervalued.

This is what it was supposed to be used for, duh!

The filters I use can be customised to what you like. I personally use ‘more than 500 words’, ‘low pending rewards of less than $0.50’, ‘minimum 10 images’ , look over them and if they do add some value in my opinion, resteem them, add a 50% vote (custom your own filters and rewards) and a comment.

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This one took all of four minutes to find. The author is new (August 2019), is using cross-posted material from her own blog, and has invested and bought some STEEM. The post did have rewards of 7c. Is this the kind of people we are looking for? I think so!

https://steemit.com/travelfeed/@oheyo/thousand-islands

You will still find lots of crappy posts even using these kinds of filters. On top of that, foreign language posts (I’m a lazy Englishman, don’t understand anything else so won’t vote, apologies), lots of spammy contests and many crypto posts.

I can generally pick one out using this criteria, and that enough for me. If there’s nothing good enough I general increase the ‘create before (minutes)’, to around 4000 or so.

Surprisingly, there are new people joining and as we already know these people get little attention due to their low SP and follower count.

@iamraincrystal put a decent amount of effort into her post, has recently joined us, (August 2019), and you can guess, getting little attention. Thank you @travelfeed for picking up on her post, you beat me to this one!

https://steemit.com/travelfeed/@iamraincrystal/stilts-calatagan-maldives-of-the-philippines

Another one I just gave a 50% vote on was this:

https://steemit.com/introducemyself/@paigeautumneve/hello-everyone-an-introduction-d

It seems that @smartsteem has now found this one now, thanks @meesterboom for the resteem.

I aim to do one a day with the aid of this tool. Are you going to join me and do the same? You should, and here’s why.

The big boys are starting to curate more. If you haven’t noticed this then your eyes are closed.

If you want some incentive to do this then let me give you a scenario.

If you find something good that meets YOUR ‘value’ criteria, has a poor rewards (one very recently had a 1c pending reward), then vote it, resteem it then maybe it will noticed by @curie, @acidyo or another manual curator.

YOU are going to get some nice curation rewards as you were there first, adding your vote. That curation reward may be MORE than the value of your vote.

The author is going to get some rewards that are more than they can find by scouring the streets looking for coins that nobody wants to pick up, and we may have another person willing to invest into STEEM as they feel valued.

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Quite often, intro posts are noticed and then writers are abandoned. It’s no wonder STEEM is considered a ‘closed shop’ outfit.

Sustained use of the method above of finding ‘the good stuff’ may overcome this perception. If they write well, I’m quite happy to give them my vote, add my encouragement, resteem their work and add them to the @chops.support account NO MATTER how low their SP is.

If I find someone consistently writing great material, I WILL follow them and support them.

Think about it people. If we all do this then maybe some more value may be added to the blockchain, and maybe those people will buy STEEM and treat this place as an investment vehicle.

Now this has turned into yet another STEEM article. So I am going to sign off. I have to write LESS about STEEM.

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If you found this article so invigorating that you are now a positively googly-eyed, drooling lunatic with dripping saliva or even if you liked it just a bit, then please upvote, comment, resteem, engage me or all of these things.