I think this explanation is long overdue, and for that I apologize. We've been doing post shilling for more than half a year and almost with no fail, I end up confusing somebody when it's announced. So this fine saturday morning I figured I put it on the blockchain and explain it once and for all.

The problem: Not enough people reading

Everyone and I do mean everyone, is focused on creating content all the time. The way that plays out is that little echo chambers are created were a content creator is simply running out of ideas. He or she has no idea what to do next, what to write about, what to post. Why? Because it's been about the "me" a little too strongly.

I think it was Bob Dylan who said that the trick to being original is not letting people know your inspiration or something of the sort. Well, if it's good enough for Bob, it's good enough for me. One of the reasons why I don't stop posting one single day is because I read, I read a lot.

Over my almost one year tenure on this experiment of ours, I've collected a great list of authors I enjoy and reading ever single day. Some of them have become good friends, but overall, everytime there is a controversy, or an issue to be solved, I'm always looking forward to their input and default to checking their blogs.

Do you want to know what you should be posting about? You need to read more...

First Solution: Sharing in Groups

This was spearheaded by @shadowspub on Steemit Ramble. This once a week event has been very successful for quite a long time, and it's proven to do wonders for social networking.

If you've never participated of it, then you are missing out my friends. It's usually filled with very talented people and i've seen it last hours and hours. It's like an online party filled with avatars and silly images in chat.

Second Solution: Shilling in Groups

And this is basically the idea of group sharing, with one big change: You can't share your own post, you have to shill someone else.

What is the evil plan here? Very simple, this kind of forces peeps to go into the one tab that seems to die on every single community of Discord, the #shareyourpost channel (you know what I'm talking about), find a great post, read it with intent, and be ready to share it with everyone.

If the shiller is not a good shill, if he or she can't convince the group the post was read, understood, internalized or what have you... Then, the shiller can't possibly win any prizes. It's really that simple.

After the shilling session is over, the people who are participating of the are listed, emojis are casted and delegations are assigned. THIS is also a big difference/game changer/super ninja thing we started to do almost from the beginning.

For this last week, we had 1100 SP on the pool delegated out to people who shilled, beginning with @amymya who did a superb job and got 500SP for a week.

In other words

You get to share a great time with the community, you get to read an awesome post, learn from it, then share it with people who also care and then as if the experience was not awesome already, you walk away with STEEM power delegated to you... WHAAAAAAAAA

Only on Helpieland, but...

Honestly, this is one of the little ideas I think would be great if other communities incorporated as well. If people are just potatoing inside a discord server, and nobody knows each other, nobody cares, then I'm sorry to say... The community is not tapping into it's true potential. (a little @meano to close this up).

With this blockchainified explanation of what Post Shilling is, I will say goodbye for now, and a happy Saturday to you all.