Application for Steemit Engagement Challenge, Season 18

Dear Steemians ,

We are happy to submitting an application for the Steemit Engagement Challenge- Season 18 on behalf of the administrators, moderators, and community members of #hindwhale.

We are very happy and proud to submit this application to host the upcoming SEC 18 Contests. We believe we have the ability and confidence to do so. Because our community has achieved a great achievement within a year of its inception, we now have more than 2000 subscribers and more than 170 active posters in our community. All of our admins and moderators are actively running the community.

Moreover, we have already successfully conducted four such competitions. We know many communities will apply to host this season and we want everyone to have the opportunity. Perhaps, if any one has not applied for it, we request steemit team to give us the opportunity.

Note: Since we submit this application every month and have to answer the same questions, therefore we have written this application with existing content citing the answers we have already given with current data.

The purpose of the community.

Our #hindwhale community is established to provide support and knowledge to all new members. Since new members must learn from their predecessors in Steemit, According to this policy, HindWhale gives new members all the direction and assistance they require, and community team members help them along the way.

Since no one is born knowing everything, knowledge is acquired through education and upbringing, the #hindwhale was founded as a GENERAL PURPOSE COMMUNITY to assist, inform, and encourage all Steemit users who want to improve and expand their Steemit accounts. In a similar vein, not every user of Steemit is an expert on the platform.

The following describe our missions and visions:

Mission:

Our mission is to help every new member who joins Steemit. we support them when they join our community and try to guide them with motivation and appropriate help because we already have experienced people to guide newbies when they join.

Vision:

Everyone should choose Steam Blockchain as their first choice for all their social networking needs. Everyone who joins Steemit will live a better life than before, we promise.

Brief history of our community.

Last year, we started our community, #hindwhale, to enable people in India to publish their posts while some Indian communities were shutting down. At the same time, our community grew to become a worldwide community with a sizable number of active members. Encouraging moral behaviour among employees has always been our goal.

Our team was taught under Steemit policies, which we adhered to. We have been chosen as one of the best communities of 2022 and have received two Tier-1 and three Tier-3 designations for Booming Support. Despite being a flourishing community for over a year, we have helped numerous Steemit users share their posts in our community as a result. We have regular posters from all over the world especially users from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Srilanka and Venezuela.

Four times in the last year, our community has been chosen to host SEC seasons—SEC6, SEC11, SEC13, and SEC16—and each time we have completed the engagement challenges. We believe we meet all the requirements to be chosen this time for our community.

• There are more than 300 active posters and 2096 subscribers in our community.

• Our community has been active for over a year.

• With delegations included, our community account has 29,220.10 SP total and 6,989.57 SP on its own.

• There are no mandatory voting policies in our community, such as beneficiary or delegation.

• All of our moderators and administrators are not going to be shutting down, have more than 68 reputations, and are actively involved right now.

• None of our moderators or administrators use delegations or bid bots to serve votes; all of them have at least #club5050 status.

• The community account is entirely controlled by the two of us administrators.

• Over 75% of the earnings from our community accounts go towards increasing their Steem Power; the remaining portion is used to fund contest prizes.

A list of all administrators and Moderators.

Admins:

Account Name	Club Status	Reputation	Steem Power	Date Joined
@jyoti-thelight	#Club5050	77	49,681	17-11-2017
@deepak94	#Club100	74	16,311	09-09-2021

Contact Details:

@jyoti-thelight Discord: jyoti-thelight#6650
@deepak94 Discord: deepak94#7616

Moderators:

Account Name	Club Status	Reputation	Steem Power	Date Joined
@pathanapsana	#Club5050	72	9,254.45 SP	11-Dec-2021
@pea07	#Club5050	74	17,074.53 SP	10-Feb-20221
@shravana	#Club100	68	4,465.55 SP	20-Mar-2022
@aviral123	#Club100	73	10,499.74SP	26-Nov -2022
@manisha.jain9	#Club100	71	3,437.69SP	06-Jul -2018
@sohanurrahman	#Club5050	75	18,098.58 SP	01-Jun -2020

Note: Up to this point, each administrator and moderator has continued to be involved in the community and has been active so in some way.

Details of who has which keys for the community account.

Our community's official curation account is @hindwhale. Our two administrators @deepak94 and @jyoti-thelight now have access to the the Master, Owner, and Active keys of the main community curation account. To perform responsibilities involving curation, post, and comment creation, each moderator has access to the posting key.

Details of the community’s current policy for checking and commenting on posts

Our community carefully adheres to the Steemit guidelines to avoid misuse and plagiarism while also supporting those who create good articles by encouraging them regularly. Furthermore, instruct our moderators on how to guide the community towards being plagiarism-free.

Accordingly, we use tools like smallseotools to check for plagiarism, ZERO GPT & GPT-2 to check for AI content, and to chesk clubs we use tools like steemcryptic and steemtools.

In addition, we have trained our moderators and made sure they are aware of our policy, which is outlined below.

Category	Remark	Score
#Club5050	✅, ❌	2/2
Verified User	✅,❌	1/1
#steemexlusive	✅,❌	1/1
Plagiarism Free	✅, ❌	1/1
AI Content Free	✅, ❌	1/1
Bot Free	✅, ❌	1/1
Voting CSI > 5	✅, ❌	1/1
Suport Burnsteem	✅, ❌
Quality	✅, ❌	2/2
Total	✅, ❌	10/10

Feedback / Note

Hello @user,

Feedback/ suggestions

Details of how the community helps members improve the quality of their posts.

Every post in our community is evaluated by our team members to find its flaws and pros. Therefore, we make an effort to review them and, if qualified, provide support. Additionally, we occasionally answer questions that newcomers to our community have regarding Steemit. To do that, we connect with them on Google Meet, Telegram, and Discord and respond to their inquiries. In addition, we have a weekly team meeting where we talk about the quality of the postings and solve community issues.

Discord: https://discord.gg/fEkWQHaVY9

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hindwhale/status/1710187153836445860?s=20

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CyDFM2wBL0u/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Occasionally, we try to share our experience through posts about guidelines. Here are a few links to articles our team members have written to help users:

Community guidelines

Guidelines for Lifestyle Curation Team

Ten useful tips to success in Steemit

Instructions to properly promote posts on Twitter

Steemit Education about importance of Steemit Key

Apart from this we conduct weekly powerup contests in our community through which our members can learn powerup tutorials and also increase their Steem Power and give benefit to our Steemit platform. So far around 40 K Steems have been converted to Steem Power through these contests.

Reasons why our community should be selected for the Challenge.

We are thrilled about the opportunity to become one of the top Steemit communities and grateful for the Steemit team's help with the #hindwhale community.

• Since its founding, our community has prospered and expanded quickly.

• We have 175+ active posters and 2291 subscribers in our community.

• We have experienced Moderators selected from various countries.

• We already have hosted Four times SEC contests.

• Our members are from all over the world.

We put a lot of effort into putting up fantastic concepts and initiatives that will enhance our community and the surroundings for all. We stand to gain more from being able to plan this season and accomplish more.
Our moderators have worked with us continuously since we began operating economically on Steemit a year ago, expecting nothing in return but upvotes for their posts. If given the chance, we think it will help our moderators, members, and our community's reputation.

Conclusion.

We have included a complete list of our community's current status and activities in the application mentioned above. If we have the chance to host SEC season-18 competitions this time, we'll take advantage of the favourable circumstances. We hereby guarantee that we will check the contest entries for copyright images, plagiarism, artificial intelligence content, and compliance with Steemit's legal programmes. We will also determine whether the post's author has bot support, evaluate the post's quality, and rank the entries to determine which ones are the best.

CC: @deepak94, @pea07, @shravana, @pathanapsana, @aviral123, @manisha.jain9, @sohanurrahman

Discord: https://discord.gg/fEkWQHaVY9