Announcing Steem Guild, a second stage project to continue supporting good authors after Project Curie
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new project backed by Ned Scott, who has donated voting power to create Steem Guild.
Steem Guild was formed primarily to support established creators of quality content who still need assistance to generate their own following. In addition, Steem Guild will help grow Steemit in particular focus areas (such as Science/Tech and foreign languages) in which the project has a trusted team of curators and a reliable process in place for the high quality review of posts.
Bridging the Gap
Project Curie is able to find great content creators and support them. But after those first votes, Curie must move on to support other new authors. What happens to those who continue posting great quality content on Steemit, but are not able to make more than $5-10 per post? Many authors become frustrated because there is a gap between Curie and becoming fully established.
Steem Guild hopes to bridge this gap. Authors whose previous posts have complied with Project Curie guidelines and who continue creating good content can receive ongoing support through Steem Guild. We believe this will help with retention and morale on Steemit as well!
Separation of Personnel and Powers; Cooperation to Avoid Overlap
Project Curie and Steem Guild are two separate projects. It is important that the curation power be decentralized and that new community members are brought in to participate in this work.
There is a separation of personnel between Project Curie and Steem Guild. Several veterans of Project Curie have helped establish, train and support Steem Guild’s new team of curators. Those currently working on Steem Guild are no longer submitting posts or making votes on behalf of Project Curie, while Project Curie staff members have no jurisdiction beyond Curie’s mission. Both projects have separate communications channels.
Yet the two projects will cooperate, which is a key to their work. To ensure that there is no overlap in terms of authors being rewarded, staff from the two projects work together to create a list of authors who can move on from Curie and be rewarded via Steem Guild. In addition, the #curie chat channel will remain the place for all new post submissions.
Steem Guild, main project guidelines:
- Authors must be producing consistently good content which improves Steemit
- Original content with no material that is plagiarized or generated by word spinners
- Authors must have low lifetime rewards
- No Steemit related posts
- No controversial posts
- No polarizing themes or subjects (such as politics)
- No posts that are just one photograph
- Must cite sources for any non-original content (text, photo, video, etc.)
- Maximum rewards: 1 post per day per author
- Preferably people who have been in Steemit for at least 1-2 months
Please do not submit posts to Steem Guild or its staff members. Steem Guild’s main responsibility is to review posts from the established authors on its list, apply a set of criteria to screen them, and bestow rewards as appropriate. This author list largely comes from Project Curie. So please use the #curie channel on Steemit.chat to submit any new posts that comply with the Project Curie guidelines.
Let’s continue working hard to make Steemit better!
Ned @ned
Tom @donkeypong
Adil @the-alien
Gavvet @gavvet
Brian @hanshotfirst
Jason @jrcornel
Celia @coinbitgold
Rob @justtryme90
Jam @jamtaylor
Pfunk @pfunk
And other great contributors from the Steemit community
Image Credits:
Shield design: by @hanshotfirst
Bridge: Licensed via istockphoto
Mud Wall: Pixabay
Thumbs up! This is an important next step for the platform. I hope other curation guilds and other whales will continue to put Steemit first instead of curation rewards from a handful of successful authors. There will be no growth and added value until we can retain those who we have brought here and keep helping them achieve their dreams.
Wow, these curation guilds are really helping to evolve the platform. Projects like Steem Guild, Curie, and Steemprentice are getting those bases covered and it's beautiful to watch. I find and follow a lot of authors out of these lists so thanks for the killer curation.
great that it is finally live ! keep up the good work
This is a great initiative for steemit as a whole we believe. We are trying to assist in the user attention as authors and content creators gather a following and no longer qualify for Curie, and we want to keep assisting those to.
If steemit has big a user base, we can all grow together as more people start joining. We all want steemit to grow and grow :)
Six months anniversary coming soon, look how far steemit has come. Here's to a wonderful six more months with many more great things to come!
It has been a pleasure to be among all of you!
Very well said! Great to have you with us! :)
This is great for the Steemit community! User retention has been our biggest problem.. I am glad to be a part of the solution!
This is a great project and it is an honor to be apart of it, and to serve the steemit community. :)
It has been a great pleasure to work with both of you, you have a good eye for posts, you try to help others and your energy in contagious. It's great to do this project with you guys!
Honored to be part of this project :-)
Great to have you among us :)
There's a place for us, somewhere a place for us....
There is now - thanks to Steem Guild
Thanks for doing this..My faith is restored! When does the project commence?
The project has started already. We won't get every deserving author, but it will cover a lot more people. I hope that more whales and projects consider the tremendous need to help existing authors who are producing great content and committing to the platform, not just by paying $500 to the same 10 authors, but by spreading that out so that hundreds of good posts are getting $30 or more. In time, I hope there will be more curation guilds that can cover everyone who deserves it. This is the next big step.
Very good initiative. If you at some point develop specialized/thematic curation guilds, e.g. for Science & Technology, it would be great to couple this with thematic, easy to search repositories. The best posts for each subject could be the seed for some sort of "steemwikis".
And Life Is A Wishing Well? ;)
Good idea the "steemwiki"
The people are rejoicing and there is dancing in the streets..'We are saved' they are shouting 'our home is safe and we can stay here'.
I am absolutely thrilled to be part of this project. There are so many creative people on steemit who deserve to be recognized and rewarded for their contributions. I am honored to be part of a team whose goal is to support as many community members as possible.
Congratulations! It sounds like a huge project.
It has been a pleasure to have you with us as well, let's continue helping many people and this beautiful platform grow!
Thank you! This idea will help so many people continue to improve their skill set and content.
Great incentive to create really good content.