Hi contributors, subscribers and supporters?
This week's edition of the newsletter will cover a range of updates about The Ink Well community, as well as an important development in the drama with Justin Sun that has has been dominating the steem-o-sphere. More about that later, but for now I shall stick to all things creative writing that effect The Ink Well community members.
This is your friendly admin @raj808, here to tell you about some of the new developments, as well as some breaking news about a community voting trail and a promised power up for the @theinkwell account.
If you are not already a member of The Ink Well and would like to check out the first creative writing community supported by @curie please follow the link below:
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Breaking news - The Ink Well's Curation Trail is Now Active on SteemAuto
The Ink Well has its first large-ish stake holder following our curation trail in the form of travel writer, drum and bass producer, and all round nice guy @nickyhavey. I want to take this opportunity to thank Nicky for being the first to follow our trail with a massive 100% voting weight. He has boosted the voting power of @theinkwell from around $0.01 per 100% vote to around $0.14 per 100% vote. Thank you Nicky!
Anyone who uses steemauto to cast autovotes or follow trails can now find theinkwell as an optional trail to follow. The pictures below give a brief tutorial on how to find the voting trail section in steemauto and set a trailing vote on the @theinkwell account. Following this trail means that your vote will benefit everyone writing quality content in this community, as well as potentially earning decent curation rewards as The Ink Well community account will vote prior to our curie community vote.
I would recommend setting the weight to between 20% and 50% as shown in the tutorial as this will essentially mean that you vote 20% - 50% of the voting percentage we use to vote posts with the @theinkwell account. As we will be monitoring the community account to ensure it never drops below 80% setting a low to mid level percentage should ensure that you have voting power left over for manual voting.
An important point to note is that if you follow other curation trails this percentage should be even lower at around 10%. or you may drain your voting power beyond the recommended 80% standard.
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New Writers Earn @theinkwell Badges on @steempeak
These badges are displayed at the top of the homepage of your blog on steempeak. Just another reason to use the fantastic @steempeak front end. The Ink Well's badges are currently awarded to anyone who has posted to the community in accordance with our rules and guidelines.
This week five new subscribers have posted their writing to The Ink Well and have earned themselves a shiny new badge.
They are a nice addition to the community and a great way for us to say thank you for contributing to The Ink well.
Prompts and Challenges
A quick reminder that both of our weekly prompt challenges are still active. @stormlight24's fantastic fantasy fiction challenge runs until Monday 9th March, so you'll have to be quick to get an entry into that challenge. There are currently only two entrants, @carolkean and myself @raj808. So if there are any budding fantasists out there, come and join us in creating realms of mystery, magic and mayhem.
The Ink Well Fiction Writing Challenge #1 - Realms of Fantasy
My first poetry writing challenge will be open to entrants until Thursday 12th of March. So plenty of time to give that one a go. The challenge revolves around the theme of Legend and has an additional challenge to write your poem in the form of a ballad.
Thursday's Poetry Challenge - Exploring Legend
Some Good News from the Steem/Tron Trenches
As some of you may be aware, Justin sun of Tron blockchain fame has been getting up to all kinds of shady shenanigans trying to subvert the decentralized nature of our beloved steem. Ever since he bought @ned's ninja mined stake the situation has escalated to ridiculous proportions in an all out blockchain war.
I am a writer first and foremost. I find this type of cutthroat business/political stuff both obnoxious and boring. But you know what they say about burying your head in the sand. I have been keeping a very close eye on all the developments and have joined in fighting the negative lies/PR tactics of Justin Sun on twitter.
The most disturbing part of this whole sorry affair is that three exchanges, Binance, Poloniex and Huobi used steem funds of their users to help Justin Sun oust the 20 consensus witnesses. Essentially, they took customers steem and powered it up without the customer's consent.
But there is good news!
Firstly,the community has united and voted ten (as of today 11.55am GMT) of the old top twenty witnesses back into the top ten spots. This prevents Justin Sun from making changes to the Blockchain at a code level through a hardfork.
Secondly, and equally as important, last night in the steem town hall meeting MSP PAL discord show, a tweet was shared showing Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the founder and CEO of Binance stating that they will be powering down the steem they used to help Justin Sun perform his hostile take over. CZ also apologized for the action stating that 'We make mistakes, but we always listen to our community'. This is great news for the future of steem, and the power of this community in bombarding the exchange''s twitter accounts with the truth to shame them into action. This gives me hope that we as a community can fight off the hostile actions of Justin Sun.
Binance is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, and where they lead others will follow. All in all Binance doing a 360 on this and apologizing to the steem community is incredible publicity for steem blockchain.
I have also just heard that Huobi exchange, one of the three to join in this suspect action of voting on steem governance with customers funds, have also stated they're powering down and moving the steem back to their exchange. This leaves only Poloniex (part owned by Justin Sun) with customer's steem powered up and ready to be used to vote to subvert steem's decentralized governance.
But that's enough of that. I left a marketing and PR job over 6 years ago to pursue my dreams of becoming a writer because I couldn't stand that type of work 😆
Power Up of Post Rewards from Community Introduction Post
Eleven days ago I introduced The Ink Well from my main blog @raj808 and the announcement post did very well earning $42.84 in total. In that post I promised to set @theinkwell as a 75% beneficiary meaning that seventy five percent of the rewards would automatically go to the community's account.
However, due to a mad schedule of three 12 hour days creating design work for The Ink Well, writing the introduction and fulfilling other freelance writing deadlines, I forgot to set the beneficiary. Tiredness does strange things to the mind and I was shattered by the point I hit publish on the introduction post.
I am a man of my word so I will now send and power up 75% of the total author payout for that post to add to @theinkwell's overall voting power. Please see math/s and screenshots below. Evidencial screens are sourced from my account at steemworld.org and the currency converter tool at coinmarketcap.com.
Total author Payout = $21.41
$21.41 / 100 = $0.214
$0.214 * 75 = $16.05 which is 75% of the total author payout of the post.
The current value of steem (according to coinmarket cap's currency calculator) places $16.05 at 76.34 steem.
Evidence of transfer from @raj808 account and power up to @theinkwell account:
If anyone would like to check these transactions themselves, all evidence can be seen in the accounts opperations sections at steemworld.org/@theinkwell and steemworld.org/@raj808.
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With so much going on I missed the prompts and writing challenge, I will go take a look. So happy to see this community so active xxx
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It's proving a quick uptake in subscribers @trucklife-family with around 113 last time I checked.
What I am so pleased about is that at least 20, probably more now are actually writing and engaging with some of the prompts. It's all about the writing here and it makes me almost emotional to see creative writers becoming enthused by what we're doing here.
I think the poetry challenge could be a good fit for you Aishlinn :)
P.s. this is raj808 responding from the community account ;-)
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Raj, I'm happy to hear that in spite of all the drama drama with Justin Tron, yada yada, people are still creating and writing! I'm with you here: I am a writer first and foremost. I find this type of cutthroat business/political stuff both obnoxious and boring. You're right about this: But you know what they say about burying your head in the sand. Thank you for making the effort to keep up with what's going on: I have been keeping a very close eye on all the developments and have joined in fighting the negative lies/PR tactics of Justin Sun on twitter. On Twitter, you're fighting the new regime? I need to get with the program!!
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It's an exhaustive battle, but in the first 5 days I was as active as anyone on twitter. Tweeting at least 6 times a day, bombarding the exchanges, and Justin Sun directly, exposing his lies about hackers freezing his ability to vote with his stake, by stating the facts that the 20 concensus witnesses voted in by the community froze his stake to protect against exactly what he ended up doing when he convinced exchanges (through lies and manipulation) to power up the millions of steem they hold as custodians for their customers to vote Justin Sun's sock puppet witnesses.
There are still many on twitter fighting the good fight headed up by @theycallmedan but I only have so many hours in the day. I need to focus on building and creating something (The Ink Well community) on the steem blockchain that will benefit the steem blockchain now and in the future once we've fought off this mini dictator Justin Sun.
I will keep attending the town hall meetings and checking twitter daily to add an update to our community's little newsletter which was mentioned today in @pennsif's steem news 🙂
It seems the writer's of steem are starting to be recognised as one of the greatest assets of this blockchain. If we win this battle against the Tron take over I predict steem will take off with the amount of recognition beating a hostile take over will get in the crypto-sphere 🤞🙂
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Protesting and presenting information on Twitter actually does get people somewhere? Thank you for persisting and fighting the good fight! Beating a hostile takeover - sounds like a sci-fi story. :)
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This post was shared in the Curation Collective Discord community for curators, and upvoted and resteemed by the @c-squared community account.
If you are a community leader and/or contest organizer, please join the Discord and let us know you if you would like to promote the posting of your community or contest.
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I'm following the trail now, well-done my friend
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Cool man, thanks.
I checked after you messaged me on Twitter though and you weren't listed as following the trail.
I sent some more info on the twitter message but for it to work, it's important to follow the screenshot tutorial I post in this newsletter, and when you search for the trail use the term: theinkwell
No spaces and no @ symbol at the beginning.
Hope this helps Jose, and thank you for deciding to follow our trail and helping support all the contributors of great poetry and fiction in our community 🙂👍
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I've set it up finally thanks a whole lot
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@theinkwell, Great to know about this Community team. Felt motivated to post my first piece here and my work is well received and appreciated. Good wishes from my side team and stay blessed.
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