Here is my entry for the final round of the @blocktrades sponsored open mic steemfest giveaway. Thanks to anyone who chooses to support me from the many communities I have been involved with and good luck to the rest of the contestants 🙂
Link to post discussed in the vlog: WritCoin, Creative Proof of Brain
Lovely Vlog @raj808! I love all your ideas for a real 'Write' SMT, it's important, as I do see posts that are undervalued a lot even though a lot of hours have been put in the work. The way you talk about poems is the way I experience it with photography: a single photo without text won't be rewarded on Steem - even though I've spend 1 hour researching, 1 hour driving to the location, 1 hour finding the right spot, settings, or waiting for the perfect light, 1 hour driving back home, another hour going through the files and selecting the one to edit... Oh, and I don't even talk about the thousands of euros I spend on the gear or traveling to locations :P But still I'm expected to add a few sentences to that picture right? Like any artist in a museum also writes a text with his artworks?
Just an example of course, I actually don't (always) mind writing a few sentences, but I do believe SMT's will create a different set of rules for many artforms like photography and poetry that will get them more rewards and visibility. I'd love to see it happen sooner rather than later :-)
I already cast my vote but damn would I love to be able to cast 2 or 3 for this contest. I'd love everyone to be able to come! Money is such a burden isn't it :-( I'll cast my huge 10 cent upvote on your post :-/
See you soon!
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This is so true what you are saying here and the comparison is very apt between photography and poetry! I am one of the few curie curators who submits poetry and I have got nearly all of them accepted, but this is only because I'm able to point out the obvious indicators of exceptional talent in those works as that is what I strive for myself.
This made me chuckle as it is exactly how I feel about some perceptions around poetry. There is an unfortunate (generalized) attitude that a poem is a 10-20 minute post, and some are, but high quality poetry is far from that. It usually takes me between 1-2 hours to write/research a first draft with a lot of stopping and starting to allow for thoughts/images to develop and not force it. First draft is rarely up to standard. I spend on average 4 hours I'd say editing and re-writing a poem over a few days as the feeling and understanding of where it has sprung from, subconsciously, deepens over time. Ha ha, I published a poem on steemit about 6 months ago that I had abandoned in disgust over ten years before. I saw it in my folder and re-read it, completely re-wrote it and edited it a few times and it ended up something I was proud of when before it had honestly been very sentimental & cliche. All in all around 10 hours went into creating that poem.
I've just realized that this may sound very high handed 😂, but I'm only relating these experiences as example of what I know happens on steemit to many other creative writers. I feel like WritCoin could help in rewarding through a kind of specialized curation. Sure it would be a little mad for a poem written in 5 minutes to get a $10 upvote, but one that is exceptional and took 4-5 hours or more over two days? I personally think that $10 is cheap. Same applies to other disciplines like photography which you mention.
Thanks you for this thought provoking comment @soyrosa and thank you for your support. Hopefully see you soon at SF3 :-)
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Community engagement is, indeed, crucial for success on the platform! Bravo! 💚
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Thanks @thekittygirl. You are right, community is the backbone of steemit and crucial for success of the platform. I appreciate your support for my quest to make it to Steemfest 3 and all of your lovely comments on past posts.
Thanks #steemitbloggers family 🙂
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Got my vote sir! Keep improving steemit.
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I really appreciate your support @dynamicrypto. It's one of the great things about this platform, like-minded people support each other in their endeavors to work toward something better for all. Thanks again for your comment :-)
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Sounds like a great idea to me @raj808
I'm right behind you buddy. Best of luck.
Gaz
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Thanks Gaz. I appreciate the support for my quest to make it to Steemfest 3 and as well as all your comments on past posts. I think you might have been one of the first fellow Brits I met here on steemit. Hope all is well with you and your family mate.
Cheers and much love to the #steemitbloggers family
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No problem mate. I hope it goes well.
I guess there aren't an awful lot of Brits on here, full stop, so we have got to stick together! 😁
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Super cool, @raj808! Good luck in the contest!
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Thank you @cecicastor. I really appreciate the support for my quest to make it to Steemfest 3 :-)
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Community involvement is where you excel! You are an amazing steemian who encourages so many of us. Good luck!
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Thanks you @byn I really appreciate your support and always look forward to reading your amazing ongoing stories. Thanks again for your comment and the luck 🍀😉
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I enjoy your writing Raj and I think Writcoin idea is an excellent one as well. Best of luck friend in your quest.
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Thanks for your support @sultnpapper and the luck is needed, ha ha, the amount of comments on this post thread now, means that my steemit page is lagging.
Cheers for your comment, the quest to SF3 continues ;-)
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You are most welcome Raj.
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@raj808 - I listened to your vlog with great interest. I have been fortunate to have had a few, no, a couple of @curie votes and while I don't consider myself to be a creative writer per se, I like writing and have written a lot - in different contexts. I've been on @steemit for just over a year and am in a little bit of the doldrums at the moment, which means that I'm not very prolific at the right now.
That said, I am so interested in what people consider to be quality. I have written posts that I've considered "up there" as my best and they've had little if no traction. Others I've dashed out and they've been really popular (lucrative), and one even got "curied". It confounds me.
I also see work on Steemit that should not get into a "published" space - not from a content point of view - from the perspective of plain poor grammar and spelling. I know that I tread on dangerous ground with second language writers and I am prepared (and do) forgive a lot when there is clear effort put into the writing and getting it right. What I can't forgive is where it's so bad as to be totally incoherent and incomprehensible. Then the writer does him/herself and readers a disservice. Better to build an audience in one's mother tongue and which would be more meaningful all round. Similarly, I have no time for "spammy" posts that are just to "get stuff out there" rather like a Gattling gun spraying all over the show. They clog up feeds and waste time.
This is not to say that every post interests me, or that every post that my blogpals write interest me. I mean no disrespect when I say that there are topics in which I have no interest and similarly, if I write about something, like cooking, about which I am quite passionate, am I going to follow every food blogger. So boring just to be reading and writing about cooking (or my cats!) - for me and my followers. I have other interests - like gardening and current affairs and will read about these, comment quite verbosely (like now!) but not always, sometimes nver write on those topics.
So, I think that this is a really important debate - not just about what is quality, but also how prolific good writers - not just creative in the broader sense, of fiction and poetry, are recognised and rewarded.
@quillfire has also had something to say on these issues and put forward some proposals. I think it would be enormously valuable to have likeminded folk who are grappling with these challenges and spending time thinking them through, sit in a room and not just discuss them, but come up with something that is mutually beneficial.
So, it's about engagement and yes, it's equally about the reward. like you and many Steemians, I need to be generating an income. If I spend time here, which I enjoy, but I'm not seeing material benefit, I have to spend my productive time elsewhere. This is partly why I've not posted for nearly 2 weeks - I've simply been caught up with stuff of life and some of it to do with my currently very currently "unlucrative" day job. Another story (or two) for another time!
I do hope that you get to Steemfest and I look forward to the outcome of the deliberations and your sharing of them.
Kind regards from @fionasfavourites
McGregor, South Africa
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Some very interesting points you raise @fionasfavourites and many of them lead to much wider concerns for steemit which need addressing before this platform has any chance of providing an appealing (easily understandable) user experience, especially as a new-comer.
In regards to curie, the curators have to follow a very stringent set of criteria that focuses on rewarding undervalued authors. It is not perfect but works as well as can be expected in the context. So, often a post that you may consider better than one you've previously received a curie for may not get a vote due to the fact that it is extremely risky for a curator to submit a post for review that is not older than 2-4 weeks. This can cause a lot of confusion for people when they first arrive at steemit, or if they don't learn the criteria curators have to abide by. If a curie curator recieves too many rejections by submitting posts that don't follow the guidelines, they loose their place as a curator. I honestly think steemit.inc should list various nuances of how curation guilds work on the landing page for new users so that they can understand from the start what to expect.
In regards to some posts doing better than others, with no seeming recourse to quality in why they haven't done so well, this has happened to me many times also. I find that the underlying factor often is due to me not being able to network on discord at that time. My experience of steemit has been that if you don't network, you don't get anywhere and even, as you've pointed out, when something entirely out of your control stops you from putting the time in, the engagement can fall off very quickly. I have experienced this recently as well.
I get where you're coming from completely, and I am only focusing on creative writing, as it is what I know I'm good at and I have some contacts in mainstream publishing that might be able to help me explore this idea beyond just a steemit community. But I honestly believe/hope that the SMT mechanism could help all writing interests on steemit take back the platform to reward quality content within their discipline. Whether it be, blogging, subject specific writing, creative writing, film making etc. Of course communities already do this to an extent but the whales (and delegated SP going out to bidbots) have huge amounts of their Steem Power tied up. The community minded among them delegate to communities focused on content they value but that system is essentially an oligarchy dictating what has value on steemit. If an SMT can create a bubble where a big amount of steem power can be locked up to reward content based on quality, while bringing more outside investment/interest to the platform, we the small fry, can possibly level the playing field. An SMT ICO could possibly achieve this. Ha ha, this is the type of thing I want to explore with devs at steemfest.
I think that this is a key and will/can destroy this platform if it is not addressed. Quality content creators, in all disciplines, will leave if they don't see reasonable growth based on a fair factor. Ha ha, I think my video shows clearly that I believe that factor should be quality. I'm hopeful that this idea could increase this dynamic in the creative writing fields. I hope also, that others do the same for other subject areas.
Thanks for your insightful and thought provoking comment @fionasfavourites. It is these types of comments which help an idea evolve :-)
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Glad to have made even a small contribution @raj808. I do hope that you get there. Good luck!
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I think Steemit needs to be packed with people like you, @raj808.
Your dedication is very strong in a lot of different fields: creative writing/poetry, charity, and a nice idea to reward quality, that if it catches on, it can act as a flywheel to fill this platform with truly meaningful contents, for both the writer and the reader.
For this, I strongly wish you can be rewarded with the steemfest ticket. Your voice and your ideas need to reach for the widest possible attendance!
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I really appreciate your support @marcoriccardi. It's one of the great things about this platform, like-minded people support each other to work toward something better for all.
I hope so and also help reward people who are here consitently making steemit what it is!
It has been great getting to know you and reading your stories, many thanks for your comment :-)
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I've gotta say, I have known @raj808 since this last summer - but that's more than enough to warrant my praises for him. This dude is a great community person and has laboured to earn his bread - even apologizing for being late or not showing up when it isn't expected. He has a sense for community, which Steemit needs more of. The more we can promote communities and less vicious or conniving people, the less we'll have to worry about small accounts never getting represented and bigger accounts getting the good deals when they don't deserve them. I know @raj808 in the #finishthestory area than anywhere else - but I see talent, creativity and care for his stories. I never see one entry where he slacks behind or is late to publish within the contest restrictions - he always is on the mark and shoots to exceed well regardless. Which I say are very important in this stage of Steemit's future if Steemit wants to warrant a long shelf-life. Including the fact he isn't secluded to that area (duh) and can be almost a renaissance man if he so put the time to doing so, which I don't doubt he's going to become such one day. @raj808, get that ticket!
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Thank you for these kind words @theironfelix and your support in my quest to get to steemfest 3 :-)
I think you have hit the mark in your comment about one of the issues I want to address with this whole WritCoin idea.
I most definitely want the WritCoin voting mechanism to be designed so that it rewards only on one criteria - quality! Not to say that only the best would get rewarded, but it would be proportional and most definitely.... not allowed to become something that people with big SP can minipulate and buy. There are ways to ensure this but they just take a little more time and effort, ha ha and a shed load of administration. But as I said in my first post (linked below the vlog) the staking mechanism and vetting of community members can go a long way to stop this manipulation.
Anyway, I'm working on a presentation at the moment which should hopefully cast an even clearer light and dispel a few more of the shadows of uncertainty ;-)
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Yup, I think engagement is of great importance on Steem(it) because without it there won't be any long lasting relationships created - and that is what so special with Steem, that it has brought people together in real life too.
The WritCoin is an interesting concept and I hope you'll be able to develop it further.
Good luck with the contest!
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Couldn't agree more, engagement is the beating heart and soul of this platform we all share together :-) It has been a pleasure getting to know you better these past 3 months and reading more of your blog @celestal
100% right! Thanks for your comment and support mate :-)
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The fact that you're so incredibly involved on the Steemit platform, even with everything going on (especially your health issues), is wicked amazing! Excellent ideas, and best of luck with the giveaway, @raj808!
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Thank you so much @traciyork, both for your support and the gif. I'm a massive sucker for an inspirational gif and that one delivers. Feeling the love from steemit peeps at the moment with all these lovely comments and I'm amping up the good vibes with some music built for enthusiasm :-) Here, I want to share it with you, this is my 'rocky' music. One of the tunes I listen too if I'm on my bike and want to push for that extra couple of miles :-)
Thanks again traci
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I've known Rowan for most of his entire year here, and his level of effort (as well as writing ability) have consistently impressed me. When he would pitch a post to curie, his arguments and reasoning were very thorough and I watched as he was the first curator there to make a successful argument for poetry curation! I would happily follow and support any project he's working on, and I'm especially excited about his SMT idea to retain creative writers. 😃
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Thank you for your comment and support @geke. You are one of the first people I met here on steemit who helped me in finding my voice and ability again after a long period of writers block. I shall be eternally grateful for that as a good workshop can bring a writer to their center and allow them to find their voice, especially with poetry. You are a wonderful editor/mentor geke and a fantastic steem friend. I shall be sure to keep you updated about the SMT project :-)
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I know you're representing a number of parties (Project Giving, for example), but if you go to Steemfest, I'll feel that I, the individual blogger, will also be represented. You've always stayed connected to Steemians who appreciate your work. And your ideas about forming a creative writing community that will have a system of rewards sounds interesting.
Right now, as a person who likes to write creatively, I usually feel that such a blog is risky. Unless I write as part of a group, there's not likely to be an audience for my creative writing, no matter how good it may or may not be. So I default to more technical material--which I also enjoy very much. What you describe is an unexploited opportunity to attract creative writers. This can only make Steemit a more vibrant community.
The idea of compiling anthologies is very good. Writers like to think their pieces may have an extended lifespan. Anthologies would offer that possibility.
I hope you go to Steemfest. You're the kind of person who will turn personal good fortune into a benefit for everyone. Good luck, @raj808!
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Thanks for your interesting comment @agmoore. I get exactly where you're coming from in feeling the pressure to write other articles because they pay better and that is what I want to look at addressing for sure. It should not be that way and honestly, it is easy for some people to say 'oh.. well no one wants to read poems or fiction', but that is not why tech and other tags get rewarded higher. Blockchain/development articles have utopian, video/vlogs have Dtube. Big accounts voting quality in those fields. Fiction/poetry needs the same, maybe Writcoin can be that mechanism :-)
I believe that it is an opportunity also and that it is entirely possible to attract other publishing entities and get them to disregard their usual First Publishing Rights criteria if I can leverage the system of value that a vote functional SMT like Writcoin could bring. To simplify it; if I can facilitate the rewards on posts for excellent steemit creative writing to be reasonably substantial and considered remuneration for inclusion in an anthology, then all that needs to be tackled is the costs of printing.
I believe as steemit grows and becomes more accepted in the mainstream, that many other publishers will be very interested in regards to the emerging market and marketing opportunity that it represents. I hope that it plays out like that, as then we as owners/investors in the currency (Steem&WritCoin) can make sure that fair partnerships are arrived at. Currently power is skewed in one direction.
Anyway, this is all just conjecture at this point. I am just excited to see if/how this can be made possible :-)
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Great idea! You have all the support from us because of your dedications @raj808!
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Thank you @roselifecoach. I appreciate the support for my quest to make it to Steemfest 3 and all of your lovely comments on past posts.
Much love to my #steemitbloggers family
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My pleasure @raj808, good luck!
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All the best @raj808
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Thanks @bboyady. I appreciate your support buddy :-)
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My pleasure buddy
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I think this is a fantastic concept @raj808 and I definitely think you have a lot to bring to the table!! Holding thumbs for you :)
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Thanks @jaynie I appreciate the support and being part of the wonderful, supportive community you have built with #steemitbloggers
I think #steemitbloggers was one one of the first communities I joined and it is still going strong, growing and everyone is engaging with each other! This is testament to your dedication and hard work. Much love to all my steemitbloggers family
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@raj808 , It's great! Good luck!
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Thanks @amalinavia I appreciate the support for my quest to make it to Steemfest 3 and all of your lovely comments on past posts.
Much love to all my #steemitbloggers family
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Stepping up after a year on here and wanting to make Steemit a better place speaks volumes for you.
Best of luck. Your show of support in the Steemit community and the desire to continue gives you my vote of helping you get to the Steemfest. :)
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Thank you @rebeccabe your support means a lot. Stepping up with an idea to try and change things for the better is exactly how I want to move forward. Rather than moan and become frustrated with the things that I see as unbalanced on steemit, I would rather see if I can hlep to change them. If the project doesn't work so be it, but I would forever regret it if I didn't try :-)
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cool... make it work
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Thuma up buddy, you're the man @raj808
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Cheers Jose. Ha ha, I'm the only man in this contest so far 😅 So many beautiful ladies already posted their entries, I feel like I'm in good company 🙂
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Yeah I looked and saw only just a man and that's you which makes me starts asking why I didn't enter and give the girls a run for their money 😀😀😀😀😀
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Raj is a very dedicated steemian. When he was in @promo-mentors he was very responsible with his job even when unfortunatey circumstances appeared in his personal life. As a poetry and fiction mentor he showed his dedication to his mentees by doing more than was needed!
@raj808 would be a great choice to attend SF3!
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Thanks for your support @futurethinker and your guidance in helping with promo-mentors, as well as generally always offering understanding and insights on how to progress on steemit.
I appreciate your friendship and knowledge, especially in my early days on the platform. I'm watching closely all of the amazing things you're doing with @fundition and the steem promo movement :-)
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Wish you all the best dear👍
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Thank you @steemflow. I appreciate the support for my quest to make it to Steemfest 3
Much love to my #steemitbloggers family
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You are always welcome dear👍 good to see sf through your eyes..👌
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great video Rowan, and I love the idea of a writcoin =) You definitely deserve to get that ticket. I'm crossing fingers and toes for both of us heheh. Oh and those apples look delicious!!!!
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Thank you @evecab and good luck to you also. I found that section the hardest, where we were asked to say why we deserve it over others... lol so much I don't think I really answered it very well. Your vegansofsteemit and other community work is amazing and you're a massively deserving steemian.
Ha ha, yeah the apples. They matched the color of my beard, it's starting to get cold over here so it is beard growing season.... and apple harvesting season also ;-) Glad you enjoyed the vlog eve. All the best 😊
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I like a lot the concept that you are giving on your video
It sounds like a great idea and i would like to see it in action! i hope you earn that ticket i'll cross my fingers for your success.
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Thanks for the golden ticket @hoscker I appreciate the support for my quest to make it to Steemfest 3 and maybe I shall make it with this ticket now ;-)
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Wow!! I really wish you all the best!
I hope you get your chance to network and talk out your fantastic idea
I would love to see it come to pass
All the best @raj808 😊
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Thank you@kaerpediem I appreciate your support and hopefully will get to develop the WritCoin idea fully soon :-)
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Good luck to you @raj808; you're a solid part of the community, see you at SteemFest!
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Thanks for your support @guyfawkes4-20 and the luck is needed, ha ha, the amount of comments on this post thread now, means that my steemit page is lagging ;-) . Hope to see you at SF3 buddy
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Huh, indeed, a lot of comments. See you there for sure; get ready for some Romanian Palinka.
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Raj is so dedicated to this platform- I love his ideas and plans for helping the various communities, including the creative writing and curation groups that he is involved in. A talented writer and mentor, he will be an excellent representative at steemfest.
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Thank you @sunravelme. One of the first people I met here on steemit who helped me through the first 6 months finding my voice and ability again after a long period of writers block before coming to steemit. You are a wonderful editor/mentor Sun and a fantastic steem friend. Thank you for all of your help proofreading in those early days. I wish I had more time to bring poems/stories to workshop now. Much love :-)
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Watch out for them wasps...haha...i loved that little moment.
you know hearing you say writ and write.... i kinda like the the ring of WritCoin better. Writ gives it the feeling of done, accomplishment.
either way i love it.
the idea in here that gets real exciting is of using writ coin rewards to find, vet and edit a steemit anthology. that shit is wild. and so needed.
Man...imagine a book of the 100 best writing posts birthed on steemit...thats awesome. crowd sourced though writcoin value mechanism!!
Somebody vote for this guy to win so we get to hear this curie presentation with @llfarms!!
And so we can get this Writcoin wrapping ready for after Christmas SMT's! Good luck Raj...you are so worthy of this break!
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Thanks @buttcoins your enthusiasm and awesome content are one of the things that has got me through some of the inevitable slumps that all creative folks go through :-)
Ha ha, I should have called this vlog: 'When Wasps Attack - One Mans Quest to Escape to Krakow'
You're right that this
is one of the most exciting things about the whole concept. I really hope that we see it happen and I'm gonna do everything I can to make it reality! ;-) I want all my presents wrapped in WritCoin paper this Xmas :-)
Cheers for your comment and support Bryan
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Loved this Rowan! Really interesting idea about the writ coin, I agree there are some insanely talented authors on this platform that we want to stay here. A specific coin to reward their efforts is a unique way to do that and I’m excited to hear more about it.
I look forward to doing the curation presentation with you and meeting you Come November. Good luck and watch out for those wasps man!!
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Thanks Justine, massive respect and love for what you're doing with c-squared as well. I am so amped about this WritCoin idea right now and even more so to learn and gain knowledge from devs etc at SF3!
It is this user retention and focus on quality that all dedicated curators seem to have in common, even when they come at it from different angles. Lol, one day we will set the (steemit) world to rights 😉
Jokes, it is pretty damn awesome already but always room for improvement. Now I'm off to buy some wasp repellent. I look forward to meeting you in Nov and presenting around this subject of curation and engagement together.
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I wish you all the best, and hope you get this one, Rowan. You totally deserve to go. I can't say enough how fascinated I am with the idea of the Writcoin SMT. I would stay up-to-date with the progress of this one. Your work on the platform is greatly appreciated. Good luck <3
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Thanks @misterakpan the man responsible for teaching me the fine art of curating and introducing me to the the amazing curie guild. I shall be eternally grateful for that mate. If I get this WritCoin of the ground gonna be looking for curators to try and help keep the community clean of plagiarizers and spamming waste of space types. Long ways down the road, and hopefully with a crypto/steem recovery these curation/admin roles will be paid in some way. That is how I would like it ton play out.
Anyway, thanks for your support and I'm glad you like the idea. It is these responses which let me know I'm on to something :-)
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Raj! I met you through project giving and have been amazed at your steadfast creativity and involvement. We were both in the sndbox incubator together and I’m so happy we both got in this season! Your dedication and breadth of involvement around the platform is amazing. You have your hand in many things and represent so much! I feel you going to Steemfest as a representative not only for all of these projects/communities you’re a part of, but also for yourself would be an enriching experience for you and also those whom you meet there! You have a bright, curious, kind and engaged spirit and I’m rooting for ya! Best luck!
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Thank you for your comment and support @mountainjewel I can't wait to get @projectgiving motoring along again soon. I have really enjoyed working with you on the project an discovering your blog which always makes me want to drop it all and move out to the country. Ha ha, maybe I will some time soon.
Awww that is the nicest thing anyone has said to me all day.... but I have been in the house writing all day so maybe I need to get out more ;-)
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After reading all this egregiously deserved support, I decided to be brief: @raj808 is the man for that ticket.
In Rowan there's talent, lots of that, joined with an astounding, caring and positive personality. He's down on earth and selfless: just look at all the support that he gave to our Bananafish community and the #finishthestory, but also the charity project and, before, the tireless mentoring at the promo-mentors initiative and @curie, of course (plus the isleofwrite and the freewrite and God knows how many other Steemit communities have benefitted from his presence!). As a fiction and poetry writer, I can only be enthusiastic about his SMT writcoin project. It's a brilliant idea and I feel that it's what we need to invert the track and take some balance in the Steemit ecosystem, where quality should win over para-financial speculations. Cheers matey and hoist the Bananafish colours high when you'll be at the Steemfest! - f3nix
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Hey ohhh.... the @bananafish is here. Beware fair travelers of the blockchain for the purveyor of fine stories is here ;-)
Thank you kindly for your support and I'm really glad that the SMT idea is going down well so far with all the creative writers who have read about it so far
Couldn't agree more ad this idea is simply to try and level the playing field a little :-) thanks again for your comment and I shall surely
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No /if !! 😉
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Go for it, man - your Ideas are great and I hope you will get to the festival!
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Thank you @hidden84 I appreciate your support and hopefully I'll get to develop the WritCoin idea fully soon :-)
If I get this WritCoin of the ground gonna be looking for curators to try and help keep the community clean of plagiarizers and spamming waste of space types. Long ways down the road, and hopefully with a crypto/steem recovery these curation/admin roles will be paid in some way. That is how I would like it to play out.
Anyway, thanks for your comment :-)
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Good luck @raj808. You are a great writer and curator, hope you will present @curie in the best way.
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Thanks @teofilex11 your comment, support and well wishes are massively appreciated.
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