The Steemit Crypto Academy : Appointment of new Crypto Professors
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Thank you to everyone that expressed interest in becoming a Crypto Professor.
In the end we had over 50 applications which has given us a good opportunity to considerably expand our team of professors.
We have taken on board the suggestion that came from several people to have assistant Professors to assist with the homework checking.
Keeping up with checking all the homework posts was one of the main problems during the first phase of the Academy. Now with the additional professors being appointed this should no longer be an issue.
The New Crypto Professors
We have been keen with this new intake of professors to expand the language and geographical spread of the team.
There are still a couple of areas and languages we would like to add in future recruitment drives but we are happy with the additional coverage we have achieved with these new appointments.
From the 53 applications we have selected the following people to join the team of Crypto Professors…
@abcallen [ China ]
@alphafx [ Nigeria ]
@kouba01 [ Tunisia ]
@fendit [ Argentina ]
@imagen [ Venezuela ]
@pelon53 [ Venezuela ]
@yousafharoonkhan [ Pakistan ]
@levycore [ Indonesia ]
These new Professors will be joining @sapwood (India), @stream4u (India) and @yohan2on (Uganda).
@besticofinder and @gbenga are stepping down from their role as Crypto Professors.
The much expanded team will allow a new method of the professors working in pairs, with a lead professor presenting the course and the assistant professor helping with the homework marking.
These roles will rotate from week to week to give all the professors the opportunity to present their courses.
New Rules for Homework Posts
When the Academy resumes next week we are keen to see continual improvements in the quality of homework posts.
To encourage people to do more research and put more effort into their posts, votes from @steemcurator02 will from now on only be given for posts receiving a grade from the Professors of at least 5 out of 10.
There will be no more ‘votes for all’ which we hope will discourage some of the more low grade posts that were appearing particularly as the STEEM price rose in the last couple of weeks.
Plagiarism has also been a continual problem. With the increased numbers of professors we will be increasing our vigilance on this.
Repeat offenders will be banned from the Academy.
There has also been evidence of people creating multiple accounts and ‘content farming’ to try to harvest extra votes.
We will be putting more resources into detecting this and those caught doing it will be banned.
Additionally to help prevent this, posts from people with reputations below 45 will not be eligible to receive votes from @steemcurator02.
If you are new to Steem we suggest you join the Newcomers Community and do the Achievement Tasks there to get to know the platform and build up your reputation before joining the Crypto Academy…
We will now begin to plan the courses and pairings with the new professors.
For all the new professors please post your acceptance of the role in a comment below and include your contact details (ideally Discord and Telegram account names).
The Academy Courses will be resuming next week.
We look forward to seeing you all taking part, particularly with the wider range of languages that will be offered from the new professors.
And thank you to everyone who took the time to apply to become a professor.
It was especially difficult this time with so many good applications.
If the Academy continues to expand we may be recruiting more professors in the coming months.
Thank you
The Steemit Team
I congratulate all the newly appointed professors and the old professors that were retained. I am also thankful and grateful to @gbenga for all his good works during the time he served as a professor and to @besticofinder, I am thankful to you too for your lectures. I learned a lot from you both. I believe that you still have a lot more opportunities that are opened to you. I believe you will all continue to make your positive impacts to #steemit. Thank you @steemiblog for your relentless efforts in trying to see that we get the best out of our learning and your consideration to the professors who were working all round the clock to discharge their duties, adding more hands to them is a wonderful thing.
I will try my best to continue to learn as much as I can.
Congratulations once more to all the newly appointed professors:
@abcallen [ China ]
@alphafx [ Nigeria ]
@kouba01 [ Tunisia ]
@fendit [ Argentina ]
@imagen [ Venezuela ]
@pelon53 [ Venezuela ]
@yousafharoonkhan [ Pakistan ]
@levycore [ Indonesia ]
May you all enjoy your journey as crypto professors. I am glad to be your student.
Congrats y’all
Looking forward to participate on this community 😁
For all the new professors please post your acceptance of the role in a comment and include your contact details (ideally Discord and Telegram account names).
I submit my consent to join the team:
Thank you!!
Yeyyyy!!! I'm so so happy, this is going to be much fun!! 🤩🤩🤩
Thank you @steemitblog for this opportunity and for considering me for this role, I'll be more than happy to perform it the best way I can :)
I accept, thanks for the opportunity.
Discord: andriuh#7029
Telegram: https://t.me/Imagensteemit
Thank you @steemitblog for this opportunity I accept it
My Discord: levycore#8345
My Telegram: https://t.me/Levycore
Selamat atas terpilihnya anda sebagai salah satu professor dari Indonesia @levycore
Saludos, acepto esta responsabilidad
Mi Discord: pelon53 # 3880
Este es mi Telegram: https://t.me/pelon53
Muchas Gracias
I accept and my contact details and i'm very much happy 💞💞💞💕💕🙏
@yousafharoonkhan
First of all, I congratulate my brother You are very hard working and honest person
It's gonna be fun now 😅
Many many Congrats on being a crypto professor from Pakistan.
Hope now we are gonna learn lots of things from you. Please accept ✋me in one of your students😊
Congratulations
@abcallen @alphafx @kouba01 @fendit @imagen @pelon53 @yousafharoonkhan @levycore
Steemit Crypto Academy Season 2 will be going to be more Informative and Educative.
Do new courses start on Monday? It's time to cancel all that special appointments :)
:)
Thank sir ..💕💕🙏
Congrats to the newly appointed. I'm glad @kouba01 could finally join the team, gives me joy. I'd definitely enrol whenever there's demand for new set of professors. It's my way of giving back to the community. Thanks to the steemit team @steemitblog for their selfless acts. Y'all are the best ❤️
@doppley
I cherish your testimony, my brother.
This new threshold will now improve the overall average quality in the crypto academy and I am quite hopeful that it will also help to fight spam/plagiarism to some extent.
Thank you so much.
Congratulations to the newly appointed professors.
Steem on.
Congratulations to the new set of crypto professors and I wish you all the very best in your new role.
@abcallen @alphafx
@kouba01 @fendit @imagen @pelon53 @yousafharoonkhan @levycore. Accept my congratulations. Cheers!
Thanks to @steemitblog for this innovation.
Congratulations
@abcallen @alphafx @kouba01 @fendit @imagen @pelon53 @yousafharoonkhan @levycore
This new rule along with the minimum scoring rule would definitely help curb the number of plagiarized content in the academy posts.
Could we also consider having an extra rule wherein the user who is posting his/her assignment posts should be active outside the crypto academy as well?
What I have observed is that there are a few accounts(plagiarized ones) with a reputation greater than 50 but post only the assignments and nothing else.
Regardless of any additional rules, we from the mosquito squishers community will try and help by tracking down plagiarists during the academy week.
CC: @steemitblog @the-gorilla @endingplagiarism @sapwood @steemcurator01
Wow, Big Congratulations to dear @yousafharoonkhan from the core of my heart. I am looking forward to learning many new things from you dear brother.