FEW UPCOMING CHANGES within PH community [4 problems and suggested solutions]

This article is to describe a few issues/challenges within Project.hope with proposed solutions to it. Please, do not resteem as I will share link to this post on an individual basis.

I'm hoping my suggestions will meet your support and understanding.

CHALLENGES

Problem 1: manual curation and bot

Project.hope as a community grew to the point, where voting power seems not to be enough to support all content creators with decent upvotes. Also the amount of publications posted daily is reaching 30-40 posts, which is way more than I ever planned and expected. This is making my daily work (manual curation) very time-consuming. And even with help coming from @josevas217 and @juanmolina, this process takes an enormous amount of time on a daily basis (upvotes from project.hope account, ph-support, our curation trail, tipu upvotes etc).

Solution 1:

Currently, we're working on two discord bots, build separately by two different developers. Both of them will serve a different purposes.

@ph-korea.bot (created by @jacobyu) will be hopefully deployed within few weeks and its main goal will be to support our manual curation within PH community. The goal is to ensure that this process isn't so time-consuming and is half-automated.

This bot will be placing upvotes on publications posted within PH community, always ensuring to upvote only those posts which were curated by one of the manual curators (currently: crypto.piotr, josevas217, juanmolina).

Problem 2: beneficiary and upvoting power

Perhaps by now, you've noticed that different users are setting up different beneficiaries to ph-fund. Some do 20%, others 25-30%, and several members are setting up a 50/50 reward split.
I would like to "standardize it", however asking anyone to increase beneficiary would be difficult, and asking others to lower it down would be kind of pointless. Right?

Solution 2:

Therefore, we've already implemented a strategy: we curate posts with voting power similar to the level of the beneficiary.

Example:
So if you set up 20%, then you can expect a 20% upvote
50% beneficiary = 50% upvote (which will actually bring you more rewards)

Ultimately, this curating process will be self-automated and conducted mainly by our discord bot (mentioned above). This should be simple to understand for everyone and quite straightforward.

Problem 3: to many posts to read and curate

As mentioned before, the amount of publications posted within PH on daily basis (especially on Steemit) is just too high for us to manage. My goal is to reach 20-25 posts daily, were at the moment we often reach 40 articles on daily basis. And many of those articles are being posted by people, who do not even bother to engage with others.

Solution 3:

I'm currently approaching one by one every passive author = all those members, who are only publishing within our community but do not invest much time into engaging in comment section and communicating with others.
My goal is to explain to them, that it is very difficult to build a community if its members would not be active. I'm making them understand, that I need to limit my level of support to a maximum of 1-2 posts weekly.

At the same time all those PH members, who are active and who invest their own time to read other authors' publications and comment on them - they will be "allowed" to post 3-4 times weekly. My goal is to promote those who are active, without completely abandoning those who do not have enough time to be engaging.

This will allow me to reduce the usage of voting power on publications posted by non-engaging members, which in return will allow me to increase support towards active users. And the number of publications posted within PH should decrease (hopefully to 20-25 posts daily maximum).

Problem 4: Small medical expenses

Many of our members are living in countries struggling with their economy (mostly Venezuela, but also some African countries and parts of India). Many of them do not have much savings and medical insurance. Which can be an issue.

Sometimes I receive requests to support someone with a few USD, which would be used to cover basic medical expenses. I often support those PH members who are in need, asking them to pay back by being extra engaging and supportive towards others from our community.

Solution 4:

After few discussions with @josevas217, we've come to an agreement to create @ph-emergencyfund on Steemit. At the end of each month, I will be transferring 3-5% of all received beneficiaries to this account and we will use those funds whenever it is necessary.

Jose will manage this fund and in order to receive some extra financial support (to cover medical expenses), our members will have to contact him directly.
It is worth to mention, that Jose is a doctor, with proper education. He already suggested that he will share his knowledge (in form of consultations) whenever necessary.

Important:
access to support from ph-emergencyfund will be limited only to PH CORE TEAM members, who also share 50/50 reward split on their posts. It's an additional way to encourage our most loyal members to set up 50% beneficiary to ph-fund.

SUMMARIZE:

Curation within the community will soon become self-automated.
I would like to encourage all of you to set up 50/50 reward split on both chains. Hopefully, by now I proved, that I use those funds wisely to constantly grow our Project.hope community.
We will reduce the level of support towards non-engaging authors and focus even more on active members.
Those of you, who will be part of the core team will also be supported financially in case of some unexpected medical expenses.

SHARE YOUR FEEDBACK

I would appreciate it if you would read this post carefully and share your feedback. This topic has been discussed already with a few of our core team members. However, I would like to know if others would understand and support those suggested solutions.

Yours, @crypto.piotr
@project.hope founder