Curator Team Application, May 2022 - "Lifestyle" by the "International A - Team, IAT"

event-horizon (76)in #curatorteamapplication • 3 years ago (edited)

International A-Team (IAT) had the privilege of curating with steemcurator08 during the past month. It wasn’t always an easy task to find both quality content and authors who were compliant with basic rules and it was an excellent learning experience for us. Therefore, we are here again to apply for the month of May. Before we begin with the application, please have a look at the feedback of April's curation that my team penned down which could be useful for authors.

^{In April I was in charge of curating lifestyle theme posts, especially the #health tagging. I searched for posts with this tag and discovered that most of the posts are of low quality, too short, or classified as plagiarism even though they have been researched by community moderators and are labelled plagiarism-free. Over time, I saw that there was a slight development of these posts, especially in related communities such as Steemkids, SteemAlive, SteemWomen Club and others. This may be because the Steemians have started to better tag their posts and are trying to follow the guidelines. -@alee75}

^{During April, I had the opportunity to curate content on the subject of gardening. I want to note that most of the posts consisted of photos of plants with a minimum amount of text. Authors often use an automatic translation, which makes it impossible to read the post. I would recommend authors to write in their native languages. The vast majority of authors who write about gardening use the hashtag # krsuccess to get a guaranteed 2 cents. Because of this, there are only a few posts that I can support as a curator. Therefore, I support fewer authors, but with a higher percentage. I believe that this encourages more people to create quality content. -@o1eh}

^{April was a difficult month to be a Sports curator following the power-down of Steemit's sporting communities and the consequent redistribution of Sports content to a variety of communities, including Crypto.kids, Steem For Better Life and many country communities. Having the tools that I've developed to find content proved to be invaluable in supporting so many authors across the Steemit platform and as a team we've supported almost 300 different users over the course of the month. Being the Sports curator also presented the opportunity to create a sustainable Sports community (WOX Sports) that could replace the powered down communities and continue to exist if the administration team changes. This has helped to increase the quantity and quality of the Sports content throughout the month and puts Sports in a better place for May's curator.- @the-gorilla}

^{I had the opportunity to work with a good team of 7 people in April. Everybody here has made evaluations on the main tag and an auxiliary tag. My 1st tag was #lifestyle and my 2nd tag was #food. In this way, we have been able to review almost all the posts during the week for other friends like me. Because the lifestyle label is so generic, many authors use it. I usually encounter this tag in diary games. It is quite a task for me to read and study them. It is a pleasure for me to continue this task with the same teammates. Kind regards. -@whyshy}

^{These two months in the two curation teams have been constant learning, the experience with the previous team and the knowledge and skills of this second team have given me tools to greatly improve my skills within the platform. I want to continue learning and working with such committed and talented people, it has been one of the greatest honors I have had at Steemit. -@willeusz}

^{Being used to curating as an orca (curating is not ONLY voting; but of course READING, appreciating, "judging"), I was happy to answer the call to join the team: It won't be any different from what I usually do. Wrong! If you (initially) open EVERY post with the corresponding hashtag in search of content with added value and need to close 80% of them again straight away, it consumes a lot of valuable time. For example, Your neighbour's beautiful flower (of which you don't even know the name) doesn't become valuable content if you repeat the word "beautiful" ten times to get to 300 words. It detracts from the article and becomes annoying, as do the mentions - if you really make an effort and produce good content on your own, you will be noticed, I promise! After a while, you get to know the users who are simply good (or those who try everything to beg for a vote). So I'm all the more pleased that our team has actually managed to stick to its own rule: NOBODY received more than two votes per week from us! The best experience? The team! I'm so happy to have met a few users here who share my attitude about what makes the Steem go forward in the long run: Quality over quantity! Thanks to my team - you are the best! - @chriddi}

^{My teammates have highlighted everything important already so I just want to draw attention to #food content. I noticed that the majority of the food content is published under the #food-diarygame tag. Most of the food diaries were really short not even meeting 200 words. I would really recommend authors to write a little more and add a little more valuable content to food diaries. Not just plainly showing and writing a few lines about their meals of the day. -@event-horizon}

Now let's move towards the application...

Lifestyle - health, fitness, sport, leisure, food, travel…

Team Members	Steem Details
alee75	^{▪️ Building Hot News Community with Indonesian CR. ▪️ Currently working as a government veterinarian, especially at the Department of Plantation, Livestock and Animal Health, North Aceh Regency, Indonesia. ▪️ Member of Lifestyle cuartion team for the month of April.}
chriddi	^{▪️ Blogger & Investor. Club100 for over four years, curating as a double orca. ▪️ Working as German Teacher and can recognize good German texts and bad translations immediately. ▪️ Founder & Admin of Deutsch Unplugged ▪️ Inventor of blockchain Scrabble, weekly high quality Scrabble post incl. contest. ▪️ Member of Lifestyle cuartion team for the month of April.}
event-horizon	^{▪️ Working as Moderator of Steemit Pakistan and SteemWomen Club for nearly a year. ▪️ Worked for Steemkids for nearly six months and recently joined the Steem Greeters team. ▪️ Life and Humanity Curation Team leader for the month of Februray and March. ▪️ Lifestyle cuartion team leader for the month of April.}
o1eh	^{▪️ Publishes WOX community stats & Steemit Outflow stats. ▪️ Runs Blogsphere Magazine. ▪️ Member of the Lifestyle curation team for the month of February and March. ▪️ Besides Steemit working as a Chemical Engineer. ▪️ Member of Lifestyle cuartion team for the month of April.}
the-gorilla	^{▪️ Created Mosquito Squishers & @endingplagiarism to fight abuse. ▪️ Moderator of World of Xpilar, have run numerous Fantasy Sports contests. ▪️ Initiated Top Commenters, @icymi & @curator-helper to highlight & support users who interact within the community. ▪️ Part of #wox-help fund project. ▪️ Developing new Steem frontend with his @coding-gorilla account. ▪️ Member of Lifestyle cuartion team for the month of April.}
whyshy	^{▪️ Contributions to Utopian.io and a Lifestyle Blogger. ▪️ Besides Steemit working as Electronics and Communication Engineer. ▪️ Member of Lifestyle cuartion team for the month of April. ▪️ Created WOX Sports to support Sports content on Steemit}
willeusz	^{▪️ Founder/Admin of Steem-Travelers Community. ▪️ Member of Lifestyle curation team for the month of February and March. ▪️ Member of Lifestyle cuartion team for the month of April.}

We are all experienced and committed users of Steemit and adding value to the platform with useful content, developing tools for the ease of Steemians, promoting Steemit, and guiding new users.

We can also cover all the regions that are majorly active on Steemit as we have native speakers of Spanish, English, Indonesian, Urdu, German, Russian, Ukrainian, and Turkish.

The lifestyle theme aligns perfectly with our interests as we have experts and knowledgeable members for each category within the team.

@alee75 is a Veterinarian, he has knowledge about animal health as well as human health.

@chriddi has a keen interest in nature whilst @o1eh spends a lot of time tending to his garden and has first-hand experience with everything related to it, so both can handle nature and garden-related tags.

@the-gorilla has been a part of sports-related activities on Steemit since he joined.

@willeusz is the founder of Steem-Travelers and @whyshy is a lifestyle blogger.

@event-horizon has culinary skills and travel experiences.

Aside from each individual’s specialist area of interest, there is a lot of overlap in knowledge and experience giving the team additional ability to curate multiple subjects.

We are seven members so each person will be responsible for one day of the week. Moreover, each person will follow one primary tag and one secondary tag. This will ensure that all tags are visited more than once per week and a maximum number of posts can be reached. To cover a wide range of unique authors, we will try to avoid voting any individual more than twice a week. However, quality is key so this is not a restriction but a preference.

Team members	Primary tags	Secondary tags
alee75	#health	#sports
chriddi	#leisure	#gardening
event-horizon	#food	#travel
o1eh	#gardening	#health
the-gorilla	#sports	#leisure
whyshy	#lifestyle	#food
willeusz	#travel	#lifestyle

We will be checking all the content for plagiarism through automated tools like 'Small Seo Tools'. For unreferenced and stolen images, we will be using Google and Yandex image searching. We are also at an advantage of having @endingplagiarism which will keep an eye on all abusive acts.

We will ensure club status is met by using @the-gorilla's new tool which checks for transfers in, transfers out, and power-ups (http://steemit.lovestoblog.com/clubstatus.php?author=the-gorilla). We can review users on a 1-month, 2-month, and 3-month time period for additional confidence.

We will make sure to follow all the guidelines provided by the Steemit team and curate the best lifestyle content.

Thank you,
IAT - International A-Team

^Credits
^{^{Cover picture : @whyshy, source}}
^{^{Team name : @chriddi}}
^{^{Assisted by : @o1eh, @willeusz, @alee75, @chriddi, @whyshy}}
^{^{Proofread : @the-gorilla}}
^{^{Compilation : @event-horizon}}

#club75 #steemexclusive #health #lifestyle #food #food-diarygame #wox-help #sports

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ngoenyi (79) 3 years ago

@whyshy @chriddi @o1eh @willeus @alee75 @the-gorilla @event-horizon
I am in support of your second coming as a team. We can't settle for less. When a team is good, there is no need changing it. I wish you success

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o1eh (79) 3 years ago

Thank you, your kind words motivate us to further work :)