Being A Member Of The SteemSTEM Community

in steemstem •  7 years ago 

Hello everyone, we at steemSTEM have a message for you

This post is designed for both newcomers and to the aspiring members of the steemSTEM community. We are going to address important aspects regarding the overall quality of a post that go beyond scientific writing technicalities, and we’ll also demonstrate how to engage in this community. As will be shown, this entails more than having some science-tagged-posts being curated by our crew.

What Does it Involve, Then?

Let’s start with a question. Why are you posting? If the answer is ‘money’ to you, then it is obvious to us, too. There is a distinct difference between posts of somebody struggling to come up with ideas to get rich and somebody who has been inspired to teach or engage in the community with original ideas. The most successful authors are those who are both driven by reward, and passionate and consistent with their work (more on this later).

The level of commitment and pride you have for your blog content is essential. Your reputation and followers are the by-products of this and the upvotes always come next. Yeah, in short: the community comes first. The rest follows.

So, just in case you got this order of events mixed up, please reassess it.

Commitment and dedication

What do you blog about? Plants, animals, mental health? Whatever it is, take your time to do some research on your topic. This is after all how your readers will eventually follow you.

This might take a while, but keep in mind you are not the only one in this situation - this always makes one feel better! The goal should be to create a document that you are proud of - which will likely take anyone quite a bit of time!

But what is research, if not searching on Google? Try Google Scholar or other academic sources. Don’t be afraid to personally email researchers on the subject you’re interested in. They are almost always more than happy to engage with you, give you permission to use their images and offer even more than you asked. It could even be an opportunity to bring a new professional into the community.

Dig Deeper

Often when I write about something on the fringes of science, I find that a slight detail has been disputed in a paper saturated with evidence to the contrary. These aren’t things to ignore, embrace it and discuss it, even if it is your area of expertise. There’s nothing wrong with a subject being wrong or controversial, as long as you rationally discuss it and provide evidence whilst opening up discussion.

Pressing the POST button

Now, that you have finished writing your post, which might have taken you several hours or even days to put together, you are ready to press the POST button. Yeah!

As soon as one presses the POST button, the obsession begins: ‘Will I be upvoted?’ ‘Why aren’t they upvoting me?’ I think ‘Mine is better than theirs, yet they got the big upvote?’

It’s tough.

But, here is the good news: the steemSTEM team has a group of curators, scouring the platform searching for all the material related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics.They are real knowledgeable people, looking for quality content in order to reward them better.

But it is a small team with limited voting power. 6 months ago it was easy to upvote every single post, 24/7, that deserved it with time to spare to scour the lesser-known corners of Steemit to find new potential. Now things have grown exponentially, this is impossible, yet each curator still reads and proof-reads twenty (or more) 500-2,000 word posts a day.

But there are much more than 20 authors, and so a higher level of expectation is a must, and authors need to strive to be the best.

So what are the minimum requirements that we look for?

  1. Originality : In case you are not sure of how to be original when writing a science post, it is simple: Write using your own words. This equivalently means making more of an effort than just giving a twist here and there to that article you saw in psychologytoday.com or on BBC Planet.

  2. Well Written, Clear English: If your reader can’t clearly understand the points you are trying to make, then your post is not effective!

  3. Well Formatted Posts: In short, make your content easy-to-read and follow for everyone. Add headings, find nice images (and reference their sources), and do not make your posts too long, or too short either!

  4. Use A Language You Are Comfortable With: Curators are all seeing and all knowing. They even have magic tools! If you feel it’s too difficult to write in English, you may try to translate an article about global warming from a Spanish source and try to sell it as your own original work. This will most likely leads to flags and reports to steemcleaners, and your Steemit career could be over, just like that!

Instead, we have a growing, trusted community of different nationalities, from Nigeria to Italy, France and Venezuela. If you persevere, these communities will allow you to grow in your first language.

If your English is average but needs improvements, consider using tools such as Grammarly or even, you know, friends from the aforementioned communities.

References. Please reference everything; all the sources of information for your post, as well as all the images. This is not that hard and will only bring you credibility. We all stand on the shoulders of giants, so give them a little credit.

These are the minimum objective requirements, and you are capable of meeting them, don’t you think? We think so too. So please keep them in mind.

However, the bigger we grow, the more selective we have to become, so how do you shine above the rest?

Well, once you’ve mastered the minimum requirements, there are, of course, other things to consider: practicality, originality, personality, style and other subjective factors all lead to a more beautiful and worthwhile post.

Practicality

Sure, a 12-page report on the physical dimensions of spines on the leaves of Western Sarahan cacti or whatever is important in some academic circles, but what value has it to the steemstem community readers, and to a larger extent, Steemit itself? If the answer is ‘nothing’, perhaps you should reconsider the topic. OR if you still choose to proceed, temper your expectations for the amount of attention it will get.

Originality

We already discussed using your own words to make original content, but instead of just finding a topic and re-writing it, perhaps try to find a new angle, find some of the latest research and discoveries. Don’t just put other content into your own words (but of course do ensure that you use your own words!), make the content itself your own!

Personality

You could even include how the information you discuss has a personal impact in your life. This brings followers in because they get to know you and want to follow you, rather than the information you provide. Writing in your own style gives us curators more confidence that it really is you too, rather than some report copied from some obscure website, which then wastes more time as we work on finding the original source material.

Style

Don’t be afraid to make the post fun or humourous. Don’t be scared to mix it up a bit with some creative spin, fictional characters debating for example, or using your other talents to make it shine, be it music, art, photography or whatever. The more unique it looks, the quicker and longer it catches everybody’s attention.

In short, authors should ask themselves ‘is it valuable’ or ‘is it interesting to the casual reader’, or even more importantly, ‘is it understandable?’

Beyond the Post

There is more to this opportunity. As we said at the beginning, being a member of the Steemstem community is not only about writing a post and having it upvoted by the team. It is first and foremost about sharing STEM knowledge, educating and eradicating superstitious beliefs.

There are many ways to become a member of the steemSTEM community besides posting quality material. You can for instance engage in healthy and adult debates, take part in friendly chats in the steemSTEM chat channel, or even motivate other members of the community through commenting on their posts.

The attraction of Steemit, for many, is the financial reward. However, the posting/expecting to be paid for it pattern can be a frustrating one, particularly for newcomers.

So, please try to look beyond this. This is a view that will only isolate you from the bigger picture that the steemSTEM community is: **a family of science lovers who support one another with mentoring, comments, jokes, upvotes, quick words on the chat, collaborative works and so forth.

And, of course, why not … a community that sets an example to all the other ones within the Steemit platform.

Thank you!

@abigail-dantes and the @steemstem team

We thank @nitesh9 and @rocking-dave for the creation and rights to use the steemSTEM images and gifs presented throughout this post

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Very well written post.
I believe as more users find their way to steemit, something similar to this should be found at the Trending page at all time, or at least routinely.

Perhaps consider adding a standardized link to this post at the end of the Distilled posts? That way, you could continuously direct readers curious about how they can get a steemSTEM vote, or be featured in the Distilled post, without needing to repost it.

This is a good advice. It will be added to the 16th distilled tomorrow :)

Indeed! I am going to put a link to this post on my articles from now on too :)

Excellent idea @fredrikaa, hopefully once communities become official, we will gain the ability to 'pin' a post at the top of the communities trending page.

Obviously, this article has just solved my problems regarding making contributions. I believe with time, alot of users will this channel very resourceful even towards getting answers to alot of unknown realities out there.
Thank You steemSTEM. My write-ups would from now be worth reading through.

Steem On !!

Thank you @ufxpression

Great idea👍
I love How this community works together!

This is too cool :D

This response! It is perfect! Definitely makes all the effort worth it :D

I still have quite a bit to learn about the navigation and use of Steemit.

I am a radiologist and have been thinking of some posts regarding some basic information / misinformation / opinions about various medical imaging procedures and the state of medicine in general.
Is SteemStem an appropriate TAG for such information, or should it be limited to more technical scientific ideas?

Thanks for your part in making this platform diverse and interesting.
I love to see some of the more creative stuff here, and as an outlet for my art and photography ideas it has so far been great fun. I look forward to perhaps sharing some ideas on my experiences in the medical field also at some point.

@ohicklin

Welcome to Steemit. I look forward to following your posts and maybe having some discussion. I am a rheumatologist but I am mostly posting on my great interest in paleopathology (which includes xray studies of fossils). The son of a fellow researcher told me about Steemit and I think it is a good platform to get others interested in something I am somewhat passionate about.

And I have seronegative spondyloarthritis, inherited from Dad. Does this fucking thing ever go away or will I be taking arcoxia my whole life?! Advice welcome.

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arcoxia? like arxidia but in cypriot dialect? you can have mine, but I don't think they will help :(

Mine are working ok for now, but the double-dick guy could use an extra pair to go with the extra dick.

XD

Yes I imagine I will be using this more for an escape from the medical field rather than commenting on it the vast majority of time. But this does offer an interesting outlet for just about any subject I can see. My son talked me into trying the crypto world out and so far I'm glad he did.
I will have to go look up your site.

I am a radiologist and have been thinking of some posts regarding some basic information / misinformation / opinions about various medical imaging procedures and the state of medicine in general.
Is SteemStem an appropriate TAG for such information

Our tag is not just for technical content. Its for any STEM related content, we are just trying to uphold quality standards, to help give us all more interesting things to read. :)

So yes, your idea is welcome here!

Thanks for the guidance.

Yes of course we value this kind of content, especially informing about misinformation. Give it a go!

Thanks.

I join my voice to the one of the two other replies! Please give it a try :)

Thanks for the encouragement.
I have seen your blog before . Impressive stuff! Physics has always intimidated me. I feel I barely learned enough to get by when I had to, so I appreciate someone who actually can understand and use physics intelligently.

Thanks for keeping things clear. As a newbie on steemit I really appreciate valuable tips. It is pleasure to create content that makes other think about the case and comment their point of view. Spreading knowledge should be more common on todays Internet!

Spreading knowledge should be more common on todays Internet!

Definitely, it's why we are trying so hard here.

Spreading knowledge should be more common on todays Internet!

I absolutely agree. I love teach people cool stuff about animals and biology, so now that I can actually get paid to do it, there's no reason not to! I don't get why there aren't even more passionate content creators here; they could earn so much money by writing about what they love!

It has been quite a challenge to write about science topics. Trying to find the right balance between what may engage a general audience and making the post as scientific as possible. In my last post about graphene, it was not easy to pull away from orbitals of atoms and decentralized electrons to continue to talk about graphene and keep the post on topic. It leaves one wondering about completeness of a post. The difference is really a presentation to a room full of scientists vs a post for everyone else. It takes practice and skills to get there. Great guidelines for all.

I get what you're saying, and balancing it can be pretty difficult. I often find myself reading over a post before I should publish it when I realize that I use a work that most people probably won't understand. So then I spend some time to explain it, but quickly realize that the post is far too long and complex for regular people to enjoy, so then it's back to editing it once more!

One thing that's worth noting is that I personally feel much better about this balance now after having written on Steemit for a little over a year; I don't get stuck in the editing process for as long anymore, and the balancing comes more naturally now that I'm more tuned with my audience.

It has improved for me slowly. It is now not about explaining the complexities now but rather giving an overview in a way for people to enjoy it. Thanks so kindly for responding.

It is now not about explaining the complexities now but rather giving an overview in a way for people to enjoy it.

Well said. I completely agree with that ;) Many details that are very fascinating to us who are well-educated within a certain field is just plain boring for the readers.

The difference is really a presentation to a room full of scientists vs a post for everyone else. It takes practice and skills to get there.

Yep, that is indeed the challenge! It definitely takes a LOT of practice to get there. I wonder if I will ever truly achieve it.

Good to know that I am not the only one trying to push electrons out of the way.

Awesome read.

Your team has been so helpful to me. From day one, you guys have guided me towards providing more engaging content for this platform. You have also encouraged me to persevere in this competitive environment, regardless of the financial reward. I can’t thank you enough for your time and commitment to ‘us’ creators.

For these reasons I will continue posting for the SteemStem family.

We are glad to have you posting here! You are doing some really nice work!

You have said it all, great rules which won't even appear as one once you start writing things you are passionate about. Thanks for sharing.

It is our pleasure to share. Let's hope many people will read :)

You are right, you've taken the horse to the stream... It's left for the horse to drink or not.

What a great post. I wish I would've posted my first few articles with the @steemstem tag, but I am still learning. I'm writing about my journey with psychedelics and the proven science behind it all. I always make sure to post all of my references, since this topic is tricky to write about it, tends to scare people away. But that's why I'm here! To hopefully educate and to share my own experiences, so others who may feel lost or frustrated with lacking therapies can at least investigate alternatives. I'm not concerned about making money, if I was, I'd write about something else. So, from now on I know the one tag that'll have to be placed for sure.

I am very pleased to see you here @therightsideofup. Don't be frustrated about your two first posts ... as lemouth said, the curators do browse other tags!
All the best to you always :)

@abigail-dantes Thank you! Best to you as well!

:)

We are also browsing other tags but there it is easier to miss a post due to the flow.

I always worry my stuff is too long or unrelatable or boring or unoriginal. I'll try to improve.

I worry the same about my own! Its a constant quest to learn and improve.

I am on the long-post side as well... So far, I never received any comment about that. I however try not to write more than 1500 words per post.

Same here. I try to provide more and more information through my post but as a result it becomes long.

So, it's my constant endeavour to make my content precise and yet interesting. While I trying my best to improve my writing skills as well as my English grammar and vocabulary. :D

However, the guidance of @justtryme90 and @lemouth have improved my writing to a great extent. :)

It's really tricky to find the sweet spot where the post is just the right length. It's way too easy to get stuck on either too long, but goes into enough detail or right length, but should probably explain in more detail.

Ditto.

Rewarding the best is always appreciated. Keep going.

I feel very happy for being part of this great community, it is a great honor to publish for the entire scientific community, and I think this post is excellent trying to continue attracting more users to use our tag as number 1, and I am proud that my country is mentioned in this publication, thank you very much :D

It is an honor to have you!

For me it is an honor to be part of the stem community and to receive recognition

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And we are very happy with your contributions (at all different levels ;) )

I am very happy, your words are very encouraging for me, I will soon start with the new project and I am finishing the last details :D

well writen post!

Its sometimes a challenge to either find a topic, set the right tone, or strike the right balance been informative and accessible. Its good to know I'm not the only one with these issues. Thanks for all the advice.

Everyone is probably struggling with this ;)

Amazing post. I am happy to be a part of this wonderful community.
Thanks for the information and guidance.

You are very welcome @jaybaba :)

Thanks for the information and guidance

This is what this community is all about!

I am new to this community and I'm into science. I'm glad that I was able to get into this tho still confused to how it rolls but anyway, I find everything interesting. I'm pretty sure I'll get ahold of everything with perseverance and dedication. More knowledge to learn! Cheers! :)

Hello @kimikal

Well, this post was written exactly to give some guidance to newcomers like you :) It would be great to see you in the steemstem channel at steemit.chat! There, you will find Steemians who have been around on the platform longer than you. You can always ask them (us) questions about the things that are still confusing for you :)

It's been a month since I joined Steemit. So far I've not yet decided anything on what I'm going to write here. I have been exploring the site and learning new things every day. This article is wonderful. This has now given me a great clarity. I think I now know what I need to do. Thanks for the article.

I really enjoyed this post. I will like to ask a question and I believe @steemstem will respond to it. If after a good research, you were able to put up a good post but @cheetah now comment on it. Can such post be recommended or be upvoted by @steemstem.Thanks

unique post works great @steemstem

I am here to share my knowledge about programming, I would like to tell or build a community only of programmers of web pages, apps and artificial intelligence systems and I am preparing all the articles to publish them at once and continuously.

I see this platform as an opportunity to share my knowledge for free to people who have just started and who love programming and that's why I would like to be part of your initiative.

Programming belongs to STEM. Do not hesitate to use the steemstem tag and we will support you (provided your articles meet our guidelines) :)

I’m a beginner in programming hahaha, are you willing to guide me?

Of course, only follow me, the next week I will publish some info about typescript and arduino. I write in spanish and english.

Great mate!! Can’t wait

merci pour l'encouragement et les conseilles intéressant poste pour les débutants comme moi

Avec plaisir! Ceci s'applique aussi aux articles en francais (avec le tag francostem).

Glad I came across this. I was originally drawn to Steem by a post about Mental Issues. Researching Mental & Pysical Health. Decided to join up. Personally, there is a lot of educated articles here. We Blog (my fiancé and I) about Lifestyle but my intellectual side is quite different than my Blog style. I hope I can keep up. You can call me the Penny Lady (Ellie). Upvoted & Resteemed.

thank you for the information enlightenment for us steeit beginner many things already know from your story and a million ideas as well as us as a beginner rhetoric of playing in steemit technique has not been fully mastered and I am very happy when I see this post although I do not understand with your writing I trying to mentajemakan into indonesia and I am very interested in the enlightenment of the articles you write thank you I will always follow your writing further hopefully many insights and developments that I get from your next work @steemstem

Yeah, I want to mentajemakan too!

Are you sure you have not google-translated some original message in Indonesian (this is one of the point in the post by the way)? I am not sure to fully understand what you mean...

I translate into English, this post is very useful to read@lemouth

The problem is not the translation, but how the translation is made. As said in the post :)

I think this is a very useful article for all users of this great community ..
premises steemstem the curator can get a quality post not only post but the quality of the post ..
thank you for encouraging new steemit users to keep working.

Yes, we are trying to give people a better Idea of what we are striving for.

This is an amazing post, so thank you so much. As a newcomer to Steemit, its all a bit confusing, and this post sets it straight for us newbies. So once again thank you for this post!

You're welcome

I have understood the whole message. Of course this is inseparable from the quality of control we need to become more mature and real. I strongly agree with it because of something new with a refresher format. I admit there are several perspectives of people on this platform, especially financially and it's easy to see on the quantity of article products. I am a writer and try to read other articles in STEM environment for comparison purposes, of course I want to be better than other people's posts. In my Place, I have a small farming group of several people. They have been the jury for my article on the level of application understanding. yes, I am very lucky to have them as the fairest judges. What has been explained by STEM team above I can understand. I have commented under Mr. @justtryme to response Indo-STEM. about the full Indonesian language use option in Indo-STEM. I have been discuss this with our curator very seriously. But, the finally I think depending on their own, if they want to be more productive with the quality of course they should be aware to start arrange the Indonesian structure language and learn English. This is the science environment every material demanded clarity. Thanks STEM team for everything to make us more better.

Unfortunately steemstem is no longer supporting the #indo-stem team.

I think something that this hit on big is that writing a post on steemit isn't the same as writing an academic paper and can allow more of a personality. I am not a steemstem curator but coming from someone whom has attempted to read tons of academic writings, I have to say that the steemit blogs they repost tend to come off as much easier to read!

Because they serve a different purpose, IMO. ^^

Great write up, I must put the socializing part into consideration instead of just spending all my time on research. This is a food for thought for everyone, I cuncur with all the outlined points on this article.

  • Thank you.

Yep, what is going on on the chat is not negligible!

I must put the socializing part into consideration instead of just spending all my time on research

This part of your comment just made me smile @ememovic! I believe this is the main message this post is meant to convey. I find that sometimes "sacrificing" some researching/writing time to go around and get to know the work of others pays off in the long run! Not only do you find yourself interested in new topics, but it also allows you to engage with more people.

Thank you so much for saying this :)

The best attitude to take into steem is, I think, a desire to write first and foremost- if you get rewarded for it, fantastic, but you should want to do the writing for its own sake.

I would write 'share something' instead of 'write' in your comment. Writing is the way, but sharing is the thing behind :)

Oooh, I like that!

Yes, I like that too.

I like both of you liked what I wrote :D

Soy nueva en Steemit, interesante este artículo, me ayudo para orientarme.. Soy profesora de Matemática y me gustaría publicar contenidos en la enseñanza de la matemática con el uso del software GeoGebra.

It's a joy to see the progress in quality. If there would be several more "stem-like" communities in the other tags, SteemIt would growing at incredible pace

Yep, for those like some of us who are here for a year, this is nice to see. It is also painful to see the increase of spams... :(

its not only increasing but also increasing in size!

I almost tried them in Korea... But I resisted :D

I wish I saw this when I joined the community. This piece is really priceless. I would definitely use this principles to fine-tune my creative acumen.
I’m glad I’m part of this amazing community
Go SteemSTEM!!

Thanks! Once in a while, it is good to write the guidelines down ;)

You're absolutely right sir

I suppose this is what we are here for now @samminator, to offer the newcomers all the support we once needed. Now we are here for them, to welcome them with the best we can offer! Also, what you said is so very true "to fine-tune my creative acumen" it is a constant process, ins't it? The learning never stops! That is why it is so exciting!
Thank you for your beautiful comment :)

Exactly buddy. Learning is a continuous process.
Like one of my friends once told me:

We start dying when we stop learning

And I believe this is so true. You would agree with me buddy.

:*

Great

Yep ^^

Very good information for those who are just beginning. Thanks Steemstem

This is the purpose, but also for existing members. Sometimes, it is good to refresh our minds.

Something to also consider is doing a collaboration with another!

For this, we may need more people from a given field, I guess. I am not so sure to see what I could do with people outside particle physics :)

Perhaps this post is really a lesson to me. Will work keeping these points in mind.

The only lesson you need to learn is not to spam the curators with questions of why you haven't been voted yet. That's just rude. Your posts (IMO) are quite good.

The team works hard to ensure that good content gets better visibility. :)

I am not a regular reader of the steemstem post. Nevertheless, I think this post is a really valuable contribution to the entire platform and it should be spread to all content producers. Thanks

You are welcome! Thanks for this nice comment :)

I am really humbled to the core to be part of such an incredible community .

" We all stand on the shoulders of giants"

Thanks for the mention!

SO humble!

Your shoulders are oddly huge aren't they?

This is a great help for me as a beginner.
I will make a good post.

We are looking forward to read it! :D

thanks abigail dante and the team. Great work you have been doing so far!

Thank you @hadji :)

Sure, a 12-page report on the physical dimensions of spines on the leaves of Western Sarahan cacti or whatever is important in some academic circles, but what value has it to the steemstem community readers, and to a larger extent, Steemit itself? If the answer is ‘nothing’, perhaps you should reconsider the topic

This part is something I will like to make some additions.
Articles in academic circles have their places here as well. I mean making it more understandable to the community as well as globally, than it would be reported in a scientific article. I have seen posts having over 30,000 views with 10 upvotes. Thats means, many people outside steemit read the article. This will in one way or the other bring people to the platform. This means the content brings value more than to steemit alone. I will like to say that an academician that probably comes accross a research work summary posted on steemit, will develop some curiosity for the platform. Summarily, the value should be to and beyond steemit.
In a PhD forum, it was advised that your research articles should be blogged. This is because you can reach a wider audience this way. I think steemit is a place to also blog such research articles, since it can give access to even get such articles behind paywall, directly from authors.

Am a delighted to have been part of this great community since I joined steemit. Great work by steemSTEM curators.

L true, one thing I enjoy challenging myself with is reading a seemingly boring paper, such as the one where researchers found a mouse up a hill, and writing about it in a way that shows how interesting it actually is when you take out the professional jargon.

You're right that this should play a bigger role in academia, and with papers getting increasingly unreadable over the decades, we're only going in the wrong direction

That is a field dependent statement. As soon as you master the basics (this is maybe the point), papers can be easily read and understood. At least in my field.

This is actually a very helpful post. I plan on posting more marine science related articles and #steemSTEM seems to be the ideal place. I'm glad this came out because I've been working on a few different posts and this will surely help me refine them for steemSTEM.
<3

We look forward to it!

Thank you!

Indeed clarifying the requirements should definitely help a lot of people out there to write quality posts suited for steemSTEM :)

I know I haven't submitted anything for a few weeks now .. hopefully when days expand to 28 hrs, or just when time permits again :)

We are all familiar with the 'not enough time in the day' phenomenon. Don't you worry, we will be ready for you when you next find the time :)

Yeah. time... The usual key player ;)

@steemstem too bad you dont accept educational posts :( on teaching English for example :(

That's what the tag 'steemiteducation' is for =p

Yes but steemiteducation also accepts math and sciences because it can all be education :) So too bad it doesnt work both ways...

There are different communities on Steemit, with different purposes. We prefer, as @mobbs said, leave these posts to our colleagues ;)

great article @steemstem

Let's hope it will be read! :D

Great clarification! I think carving out a niche for steemstem early on is a great idea, and I think having everyone on the same page is equally useful!

Now, we still need to hope those guidelines will be applied. This, the future will tell ;)

Science is power..am proud of my field so much

I think that 'power' is may be a too strong word. Science and knowledge may help in taking reasonable decisions and improving our lives, but I would not classify this as power. But maybe it is just me who associate too many bad things with power.

I think I can keep to these rules! Alright am off to create content for steemstem

Please do se, we are looking forward to read you! :)

This is a really helpful post to me. Am a steemit minnow+ Being a microbiologist and @suesa imploring me to join the steemit chat channel. As a science lover, I have decided to give it an ultimate desire to post quality content readable/understandable to steemSTEM family and the entire steemit community

Well we are glad to have you around :)

wow! so good posting

it has been so helpful to me!

i am newbie of korean

It was a pleasure for us to write it. I am happy to read it is helping you :)

Hello, I have been trying to share some ideas that I had had through steemstem, but I had not had much reception in my publications. I will take into account the advice given in my next publications. Thanks for sharing!

Yes please try! And also visit us on the chat :)

I'll do it!

So I just the steemit community, and would be focusing on writing and posting stem articles.

I found this post really helpful as it explains basically all you need to enjoy the steemit commumity particularly the stem commumity.

I liked the fact that it emphasized the other benfits one stands to gain aside the monetary one.

SteemSTEM is a nice idea and I laud the efforts of the team!

To help improve post quality, I suggest building a dedicated website for SteemSTEM. The posts would still be visible on SteemIt, but can go through a process of review. Luckily, there is one open-source software that might be easily adapted for this purpose.

Utopian.io is a project that encourages open-source software development using the STEEM platform. People post about their open-source contributions and a team of moderators review these posts, suggest edits, and finally approve or reject the post at the end of review. In general, I think the quality of posts in utopian is pretty good.

The good news is that Utopian.io is itself open-source. So you could repurpose it for SteemSTEM with a bit of work.

Let me know if you would be interested in exploring this idea further.

That is an interesting idea. I will forward it to the rest of the team.

Now my opinion :)

What would be the gain of a website external to Steemit as everything is already available here? Moderation, of course, but with communities being soon available through steemit, we will have all what we need already here.

Ah, I am new here, and not sure what "communities" feature will bring, although I have heard the feature being mentioned before.

If "communities" helps with moderation within the site, that would be cool, and probably sufficient for SteemSTEM!

If "communities" helps with moderation within the site, that would be cool, and probably sufficient for SteemSTEM!

This is the idea :)

Absolutely amazing written! And so true. These could be general guidelines for us all and this is a moment where I think we really need a "sticky" function in the blogs. Pin it everywhere.
SteemSTEM has a great reputation and it's up to us to maintain this high level of quality posts.
I feel blessed to have found a home in this community. Thank you for you support. You will always have a supporter in me too!

Maybe with communities on steemit, very soon, this will become possible :)

A very detailed and well explanatory post. I've learnt a lot from it. Thanks @abigail-dantes and @steemstem

As a newbie this kind of posts guide really helps a lot and points us to the right direction! Thank you very much

You are very welcome!

Great post, @abigail-dantes! It's very nice to get clear guidelines for what type of content @steemstem upvotes and promotes. Hopefully this will contribute to even more people getting upvotes for you, so more science content gets published on Steemit!

I also wanted to use this comment to leave a big thank you to all those of you who work with the @steemstem project! I want you to know that I am very grateful for all the upvotes I have recieved from you in the past year. And I'm also very grateful that you spend your time curating science post so that I don't have to ever look at the new tab myself, but can instead find interesting science post from you Destilled posts.

Hey @valth! thank you for commenting :)
This was a joint effort! It is nice to hear you dedicate some time to read the Steem STEM Distilled. It is precisely this kind of support that makes this community strong with a very promising future!
Also, thank you for all the effort you put on your posts to bring quality content to the platform!
Best :)

The Steem Stem Distilled is a really nice way to read "the best of the best" so to speak, so I think it's very nice that you are doing this. I think this community will thrive to be very strong here once Steemit keep growing, just like it is right now.

I have not really been active in the SteemStem community at all, mainly because I don't like to use chat programs, but please do let me know if you guys ever need anything.

Thanks to you too for the nice contributions that we have read with pleasure ^^

I'm glad yo hear that you like my posts :) Most are aimed at non-scientists, so they don't really go into much detail, so was not sure you other scientists would like them to be honest.

Best regards from @valth

This is not my field, so that I must be counted with the "non scientist" people ;)

I love this, the engaging and entertaining part of science post i guess where many of us do have problems. Not left out. But you said not too long and too small. I understand the too short post, but the too long, in a bid to make it more engaging and break those words, could get length can an article with 2800 words be okay.

Hey @tormiwah,
Yep, you know what we are talking about here, don't you? :)
As for the word count of the posts ... I can only speak for myself, of course. As a general rule, I find a 2800 post quite long. I try to keep my writing between 1300 and 2000 (max. max.). But, I do suggest you to ask for a second opinion about this one. This would be a great discussion to have in the chat! Don't you think?
Best :*

this post gives me strength and power to continue to learn and to share knowlegde, thank you SteemStem

So glad to see your here @benainouna :)
I am very pleased to hear you found the post useful!
All the best to you.

Thank you abigail :)

Thanks for this, it enlighten me on what curator wants to see in certain post and on what quality content they're searching. Being newbie here, sometimes I spend lot of my time thinking about what topic will I post and its content. I feel frustrated and thinking if my work is enough for others to give their time reading it. But with this post, I will try my best to avoid that kind of thinking for me to enjoy more on creating my content with fun. Keep inspiring!

What a beautiful comment @saskia :) It is so great to hear this post has answered some of your questions and has brought you some inspiration!
All the best to you & welcome to the steemSTEM community.

thank you for the great information. I will try to post that is correct in the mean by steemSTEM and this science will I study over and over again so that I can mamfaatkan this opportunity that bermamfaat for society ..

Thank you for taking an interest in the steemstem community @geang :)

how can i join in steemstem because i've tried posting just one. whether my post on the tag I gave with steemstem

You join steemSTEM by simply writing STEM related posts and using the tag steemstem together with the other 4 you can use per post. But, it is very, very important you keep in mind all the information you have read on this post, ok? Additionally, you can also join us on the steemstem channel at steemit.chat :)

Hi @steemstem,

I have a question.

How do you search for relevant content?
Should I tag you in the post or use a certain category?

Thanks.

Hi @msabolik :)

The steemSTEM curators mostly search for content under the steemSTEM tag and all STEM related tags; eg. Mathematics, biology, chemistry etc ... If your posts fall under any of these categories, yes, just go ahead and include the steemstem tag among the 5 you can use per post!
All the best :)

Thanks!

:)

Please don't tag people individually. They usually hate it :p You can use instead the #steemstem tag, as mentioned by abigail.

very nice post !
this site makes me want to realy put time in !
but muliple posts a day just seem too much for me.
anyway, glad i found here, i am realy enjoying the community !

this site makes me want to realy put time in !

how great to see this @omega420! It is this sort of dedication that results in good content; which will bring you followers, which will bring you rewards ... well, you get it :)

but muliple posts a day just seem too much for me

I truly relate to this feeling; to start with just browse those tags that interest you the most. When I started here I mostly read about psychology, philosophy and short stories. Nowadays, I read about mycology, black holes ... even spiders (and I am really scared of them!). It is just a matter of familiarity :)

Welcome to the community.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Thank you so much for this helpful materials now as of almost my 100 days here on steemit. I knew the content and what is really need to provide here to progress, more effective content of article. truly I am a non educate person, because i am only a carpenter here on Saudi Arabia trying to have a little income here on steemit community.pardon my grammar. and my capability of making a great article is to bad because I am not a writer or a blogger. but for this wonderful message. i was really inspire. truly on my almost 100 days here. I was posting a day of maybe 6 or 5 post, to think more post more income. but I was wrong. and your'e right. the best quality of any topic and originality make everyone proud. I am hoping and trying to make a 1st good as I can soon. Thank you so much @steemstem for your passion and encouragement to helping and to educate new members like me. God bless You All!

Thank you very much for your feedback @jie28 :)
Best.

Welcome Ma'am @abigail-dantes

Hi -

As a surgeon who's invested in health topics and strong science content being on this site, I heavily applaud this. This is the first time I'm hearing about the SteemSTEM community, but I am interested in joining and being a part of it.

Thank you for bringing the tag to my attention, and as I plan out some posts in regards to healthcare and medicine, I will keep it in mind!

Please join us in the steemit chat for a start. We will be glad to welcome you :)

Look forward to seeing you in the feed. See you in steemit.chat!

Excellent post @steemstem!. Regards!.

Thank you @tsoldoviery. I hope you found it helpful :)

I just joined and i already love this community. Finding and curating the best science posts will bring educational information to more peoples' eyes and minds. I'll be saving my most valuable upvotes for the best nuclear science related articles.

Great to hear @atomicpower! :)
Thank you for such a positive comment!

Hey, great post! We have featured your article in our weekly newsletter! Keep up the good work, and let us know if you have any concerns.

Join us on the science-trail Discord

Oh, I didn't know you were still active ! Welcome back! :)

What is psychologytoday.com and BBC Planet?

:P

Abigail's footprint? :D

Thank you guys ! Thank you for the quality posts that you create on daily basis - every single one of them is unique and interesting in its own way. I will write it here as well: I am a proud member of this community. We share the same philosophy about the idea behind Steemit and SteemSTEM.

Of course money matters. Sadly in some countries more than others. But when you are passionate about something and do it with pleasure, your profit would follow.

I hope newcomers would truly understand your message.
#SteemSTEM

We don't deserve thanks for the quality posts, the community does! There are more and more fantastic content creators joining us every day right now! The amount of great and fascinating posts seems to really be shooting to the moon recently. :)

Wow! This is a good read. Really insightful!

I am so glad you liked it @pearlume :)
Thank you for stopping by!

Thank you for explaining all these in great details. This post was so easy to read, I can't tell just how long it is. The quality requirement of #steemstem curators is quite high but I must say that once one is able to create that high quality post, the satisfaction is the first reward then, like a force of nature, steemstem would be there to curate. But if they miss it, which they seldom do, you would know from the conversations that you have done a good job worthy of admiration.
I am so grateful to be a part of steemstem. I'm amazed!

Oh! Look who is here :D
So nice to see you here @churchboy!! I love what you said here in your comment about the first reward being one's own satisfaction for creating quality content. Beautiful insight!
All the best to you always :)

Oh, thank you @abigail-dantes. I said it exactly how I feel. Most of my posts are born out of experience so I can't decide to write because I want to. I would usually see a phenomenon for which I have no clear explanation, then I research it and write. Nothing compares to the satisfaction of not only comprehending it but also sharing my comprehension with others based on my experience and understanding. And when steemstem curates it, I feel like hugging someone :)

So thank you for being a part of this new awesome part of my life. And yeah, it is @churchboy but that's just because I leave beside a church 😁👍

:)

Thank you @abigail-dantes and the @steemstem team for the enlightenment. Certainly as a beginner in steemit, these tips are very useful and very valuable to me. During this post content, I think it's good and true, it turns out with this enlightenment, It opens my insight to write or membut better content, even though it is not much vote. Because the curator thinks the content is less interesting. But at least I've tried. Hopefully the future will be even better.

You are welcome.

I think it's good and true, it turns out with this enlightenment, It opens my insight to write or membut better content, even though it is not much vote.

Are you sure you have not google-translated some original message? I mean, what does membut mean? This is one of the point of this post, by the way...

Note that sometimes, we just don't vote an article because we miss it. We are humans...

Thank you very much @lemouth for your suggestions and feedback.

You are welcome @bim.scouting. But, don't forget: Do not put too much pressure on yourself! Try to find ways to make the whole writing + posting process something that you also enjoy. Focusing on the upvotes only can diminish the fun of your experience here on the platform!
Thank you for reading :)

Thank you very much @abigail-dantes.

Thank god I'm a RocknRolla and don't need to format my posts by the book haha. On the other hand, I did read this in full and I can completely relate to the points you're making in the beginning. That thirst for insta-rewards can be blinding.

Thank you for taking the time to read @thehateclub :)

If I write a post about the topics mentioned, how will you come to know about that?
Do we have to drop our post links somewhere?
@steemstem

just use the 'steemstem' tag and we will likely come across it (though this is not guaranteed; we are only human)

Thank you

As said below, link dropping is not necessary. On top of that, we do not have such a channel :)

Just the use of tag.. Thanks

Yep :)

how to i join to the comunity

Thank you to publish more of how to become a good STEMMER! :-)

Don’t be afraid to personally email researchers on the subject you’re interested in. They are almost always more than happy to engage with you, give you permission to use their images and offer even more than you asked. It could even be an opportunity to bring a new professional into the community.

Totally, so. I twice asked a source if I can use it and the Professor on the other end was ever so nicely and allowed me to quote him in English. I am now included in his newsletter and am getting emailed when something new comes out!

So you are totally right with this recommendation and people cheer up when the got noticed by unknown researchers and get in contact with people!

Great posting, like always! :-) hehe, just to be a little spammy in the end! LOL
Love,
Erika

Thank you for always being so present with your positive attitude and feedback Erika! It is great having you among us :)
Lots of love!

Thank you, too! I love to be among!
Did you become a moderator & curator, too? Or has this been you all along and I just didn't notice? :)

Warm greetings from Germany

Hi Erika :) I am sorry, but I am not sure what you meant by the following:

Or has this been you all along and I just didn't notice? :)

And answering your question: no, I am neither a moderator, nor a curator. Just like yourself (and all the others here) I am a passionate member of the community. In case you are curious why I am replying to the comments it is just because this post was partially written by me :)

ahhh, thanx for clarification - I had the impression that I might have missed that you are a curator (because some of them say that in their header of their blog - which I already have missed out:)

But now I understand that you were co-writing! LOL, sometimes I miss things and feel stupid.

... Like, for example, that an acquaintance next to me walks on the sidewalk and I notice him only after a while, although he has been at my side for a whole five minutes.

Still language issues appear once in a while.

Good night from me!

:)

excellent post I love you and I follow you, you already have my vote and my reesteem, greetings

@steemstem, thank you for sharing your guidelines with us all. I was introduced to your group on my introduction post. It has definitely been a challenge since I started. I've posted about technology in regards to my experience and have also tried switching it up as well. I am not giving up and will do my best to create more content that will help others. Will definitely keep writing about STEM as much as I can because it is my passion. Thank you!

Thank you @heyitsjooo :)

I got the opportunity to read the article today.
to admit, there are many lessons that I will take from this article.
I found the answer to how the article should be. thanks

thanks to your support @steemstem I am more interested in science and research my career, I am a student of civil engineering and can not imagine how much my knowledge has grown thanks to the post I do daily and the motivation that this community gives us. I speak a bit of my experience, at first I was afraid, I did not know how to make a good publication that would be nice for many people, I was afraid to put something funny or an image related to the topic, now dedicate my time and read this wonderful article, I am full of encouragement and enthusiasm to continue giving the best of my research with respect to engineering, mathematics, chemistry, astronomy and biology. They are my favorite topics. Thank you for the support you give to the Steemit community! Now to work and strive more to achieve the objectives

Yeee.. I'am Community steem too

I'm glad I took the time to read the comments. I will be sharing this article with my private facebook page for small business professionals. All the new STEEMIT new comers in there will enjoy reading over this!

Thanks for the advice, I new comer, need many learn from other that long in here. Good content. I'm very interesting with the steemstem.

Thanks @steemstem for this post. As someone who is new to Steem this has been very informative :)

Thanks for all the guidelines and info . I always like to bring science related topics into general public more understandable way rather than educating only scientists(which also very useful of course ) .As a newbie i will certainly book mark this post to make sure my articles follow the general outline of steemstem standards.

You can also look to the posts referred to in our distilled articles. This will give you an idea about what we vote strong :)

Thanks you @lemouth i will look for it.

steemSTEM? I didnt even know we had a steem stem! Count me in!

Oh my, this is a great write up. If every steemian can abide with this little regulations, i believe success will be a must in our lives. Kudos to you though...

I have been getting my feet wet this past week, and cruising many of the feed sights. I agree whole heartedly with quality, understandable content. I have made only a couple posts this first week, because as you say, it takes time to think about it all. Thank you for such a "to the point" post.

You are welcome, and... we are looking forward to read your next posts :)

Great concept. I want to be part of it! Is there also a Discord channel since I am new I do not know how to work with the steem chat.

Muy buena recomendación, de verdad que muchas gracias por ayudarnos a crecer y sobretodo por tomar parte de su tiempo para explicarnos... Feliz tarde.

This is interesting. Count me in as an aspiring member of #steemstem community.

This post has helped me understand how to create content much better than as of now. TBH I am not in the science or medical field, apart from being diabetic type one for the last 46 years with no long-term complications. I have my own way of dealing with my condition and perhaps one day I might just might post up my dealings. One defo piece of advice I would say is if I can live with this condition from 1970 with all the medical advances since then anyone can.

Thank you once again steemstem @nitesh9 and @rockingdave for this great post.

Dear @steemstem Team,
first I want to say I think it is great what you are doing and one of the reasons I decided to be part of Steemit! You make sure, high quality prevails.
Second, I would really like to be part of the steemstem-community and I tried to get into the Stemmstem-Channal about two weeks ago, but didn't receive an E-Mail yet. Do you know if this is normal? Is the server overloaded or do you kind of need to "accept" me?
I would be really grateful if you could give me a short answer!
Thanks a lot, yours @Co-co

This is a great post. Reading it I just had the idea, that what you are trying to accomplish here is somewhat similar to what TED does in a video format. Science and other important topics presented in a brief, engaging and easy-to-understand way... I love it!

Good afternoon, I think the notes you mention are very important, because the first thing we look for with our publications is money, but also some of us want to make contributions to the community with our publications and it is difficult to see them and then we can discuss them. a constructive way
I understand that there are a small number of curators as mentions and it is my case that I have published several publications, by my criteria of interest and I have not received comments, I am from Venezuela and I try to write a language in English that can be understood and well written, although it can happen that the grammar can change the content a bit.
I am already more clear with the information and I will try as far as possible to adjust to these recommendations.
I also make the invitation so that I can see some of my publications based on the contents of interest of this group and, therefore, receive comments and recommendations if that is the case.
Thank you very much for this valuable information. Regards

Love this idea! I (the Dad) have a background in biochem and spend a lot of my day at a university library. Will definitely contribute to this.

Thanks for this thorough explanation with useful information and advice. I'm excited to learn about the steemstem community!

Great post. This is as clear as water. As a newcomer, I think this guidance will help me creat high quality posts .