Why I delegated 10,000 SP to steemSTEM and why I hope that you will do the same
What is @steemStem?
@steemSTEM is an amazing community that is promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics on the STEEM blockchain.
They curate all the STEM-related tags as well as their own steemstem tag, rewarding scientists who write about their work and other recent advancements in high-quality, interesting posts.
Their primary goal is to bring (and also keep) new scientists and passionate minds to STEEM through a friendly and helpful environment while promoting legitimate, original content.
Not enough funding
The project has existed for a long time now (1.5 years) and has gotten by with only minimal funding.
The community management team delegates a share of their SP to the account and so far it has acquired less than 25k SP. I feel it's such a shame for a community, so friendly and beneficial to Steem, to be so underfunded. The management team is putting in full-time effort and takes almost nothing for themselves.
As we speak, the SteemSTEM community is growing exponentially, expanding its staff - currently at 17! - across multiple languages, all without increasing support to match:
10.000 SP Delegation
I decided that something needed to be done, so I powered up 10k SP and delegated them to steemSTEM.
Afterwards, I noticed that the post about the @steemSTEM meetup generated a lot of support. Which is amazing!
We all seem to care about the steemSTEM community and what it does, but sadly the long-term support is missing.
@steemSTEM needs your support
If you are a whale and want to support a quality community on STEEM, which:
promotes Steem in the science community
brings in long-term users to STEEM (and keeps them coming back!)
supports a wide range of quality authors
And does all that with passion and love
Then please - delegate to @steemSTEM:
@buildteam already decided to match my 10k SP delegation with another 10k SP. And I believe, you can do the same!
The SBD from this post will be converted to STEEM and powered up to the steemSTEM account.
hey mate,
pardon if this is a bit off topic…
I made a post today regarding a large-scale idea to advance Steem’s development, aiming to get this in front of the audience who’d be in the position to do something with/about it, and it was recommended to share with the witnesses:
The $1 Billion Steem Development Fund: How Steemit Inc.'s Stake Could Be Best Allocated To Grow A Thriving Network Of Applications And Users...
would be great if you could have a read, and IF you feel it’d be a great idea that’d serve the community, forward to anyone in particular you know who might be in a position of influence to advance the discussion.
either way, I thank you for your continued service to this community. 🙏
cheers,
Rok
Am checking it out now @rok-sivante
Just added another 4k SP :)
Thank you! I hope that you won't be the only one :)
That is very generous from you! Thanks 4000 times, from all our crew ;)
Man you are crazy
That's a great commitment in every way for whole steemstem community, hopefully now more of the community will get rewarded for their hard worked on content without steemstem losing much power.
Steemit is always all about helping the community in need and that's what brings us close.
I'm just a beginner here trying to get the grip of everything here so I'm not the one who can add on anything yet but let's see what the future holds for me, I'll help out everyone in need.
more power to you guys. We newbies really need a direction and motivation to keep going. While i don't have a big amount to support however will delegate 50% of my SP to show my support to this project
God bless you @ausbitbank
On behalf of the entire steemSTEM crew (at least I guess :p), I am 10000 times grateful for what you did for STEM on STEEM! And also for what you are currently doing ;)
Well if this onboards 10 million scientists and steem goes to the moon, is was not completely altruistic ;)
The work you all do is phenomenal and I hope my small stake can help you a bit!
As I like to say, we are just a bunch of people who try to do some good. I think fostering science and technology on STEEM is a way to do that, both within the platform, but also on a larger scale (when we target the long term).
The steemSTEM community is also the first community I have ever seen on the web with some many people from so much different horizons, sharing the same interests, etc. People are probably all attracted by the money (who is not?), but they stay around not only because of our (warm) welcome, but also because the steemSTEM initiative motivates them to engage with each other, support each other. Funnily enough, they actually do it! The chat is a kind of proof to this statement.
This being said, I am so happy to see how things evolved during the last 18 months, even if, as you said, the amount of work is tremendous (especially with the exponential growth of the last month).
I can confirm that. The people from the chat are feeding each other with support, like giving advice for the writing as well as exchanging thoughts for topics - also we goof around, which definitely is needed at times.
I got a lot of inspiration through the chats as well as through the comment sections either on my own or under other authors articles. As I got so much support, encouragement, constructive critique I would like to encourage others who still are not aware of the STEM-community. Also, I try to be at service for other authors to come up with themes which have something to do with their professions and probably are of interest to do research and writings.
Thank you 1 Gazillion times @reggaemuffin for your engagement! (I thought to use even a higher number, @lemouth) :-)
I was keeping the huge number for a million SP delegation :D
You are of course right, the intensity of the interactions on the chat, between the people, is amazing. I am so happy to witness that, if I can you that verb here ;)
I guess you've set them on a path to the moon, a little more from magnanimous ones like you and they could be going to Mars
My hope is that @ned delegates one million SP like he did for other projects. That would make it really moon :)
Even if it's like 50k or 100k it still would do a lot - Great job that you delegated 10k! :)
I really hope he's watching and reading, many projects are begging to soar, this one will of course spur other people too.
Definitely agreeing on that one ;)
I am impressed honestly. Though this post is like 5months old now but I do appreciate reading it and what someone so considerate did. Thank you for this great post and what you did @reggaemuffin
Steemstem I see is amazing I see some awesome post like @suesa science posts they are always awesome, and I see the steemstem upvote and I wonder support is needed for #steemstem, you have done so well here, I swear, you manual curation had helped lives even the auto is making it happen for some peeps here in my country,
You do need support, and with all my body and spirit and so I offer it, I've voted you buddy @reggaemuffin I'm so happy for this delegation I will be glad to show my support even more, if it's needed,
You're a blessing to this community to the small and the great, you make a difference, thank you again, I'd hope to do big things with you.
Yep we've had users spending months making good quality posts on their phones finally buy a laptop with the money they've worked hard to earn in the steemSTEM community, the fact that we can change lives with an honest day's work is something great Steemit continues to provide, and we want to be an ever-growing part of that ^__^
Well #steemstem has been very consistent I with amazing content, they deserve every delegation they get, @reggaemuffin just pulled me away from my comfort zone with joy, as a result of this gesture
Thank you for everything @reggaemuffin! It's the best feeling to know we have altruistic supporters out there such as yourself =D Cheers to opportunities!
I really appreciate what you deed ,that is really kind of you. I am a graduate from the faculty of life science, so happy for such a platform, it will give me the opportunity to show case my research. Giving steemSTEM such amount of SP show that the future of steemSTEM is bright. I would love to support this platform , but my level of SP is not yet significant for now, when my sp is significant i will definately support. If there is any other way i can contribute please let me know.
You should join us on the discord channel and start using the steemSTEM tag for any related posts you write ^__^. If you are new to it all we're often happy to help improve (providing we have the time of day since half of the team basically work 2 full time jobs)!
@steemstem is indeed one of the best communities on the platform. When I write something it's usually about science and most of these post are curated by the team. It is really a big help for me and I know that it's the same for most people who writes about science. Thanks for sharing this @reggaemuffin. More power to you and to @steemstem! I hope more big fishes will do the same. Stay awesome guys. :D
Thanks a lot for your nice words! It is really appreciated (as much as your nice contributions to the steemstem tag ;) ).
Because things like this I love that I voted for you as a witness!
@Steemstem is a really important project and I hope it will get more exposure and more funding.
How are they getting new authors to Steemit? what are they doing in order to reach the people who have knowledge on this niche?
My technique... When I make a nice post related to a subject that could interest one of my scientist friends or an ex collaborator, I email the link and ask my friend for feedback. I do not talk about Steemit, just send the link. For sure he or she notices the nice little number with the $ sign at the end of the post, triggering his interest...
I did this with my post on clathrate stars. my friend was intrigued by the site, he is a research director in French public research with strong entries to grand equipment (ESRF, LURE, ILL etc...) ... always good to have someone like this on board, so I hope he will look into it (and maybe his team ;-)). On my side, I will definitely introduce him to Steemit and SteemSTEM.
Ohhhhh smart! That is pretty sneaky. I really like that technique ^^
I will have to think about that. Maybe just advertising my blog and wait for the backfire would do better in terms of user attraction ;)
We talk with each other. For instance, I am advertising steemSTEM and STEEM a lot within my work, though colleagues. People are still reluctant to join for various (sometimes good) reasons, but once in a while, one person is coming. I am confident that in the future, they will massively join. I am nevertheless a patient person :)
Thank you @lemouth for the explanation. You're doing great work.
If scientists hear about a platform where they can talk about their work and earn more than minimum wage on it? Word of mouth alone will bring many on. Visiting the LHC with steem tags everywhere will spark interest. And since the science community is interconnected, everyone can bring their friend on.
Most journals you pay for the right to publish. Here you are paid. Being a welcoming and supportive community like steemSTEM means the users come on their own, one small nudge to tell them it exists is mostly enough.
I like to say particle physics is an exception here. All our major journals are open access (our community is actually paying for that). I wrote about it in the past but I can't find the post right now (maybe it was a comment to some post).
Got it.
thanks!
We provide the financial means for good science content creators to proudly share their work on the site. In the past, when I showed something I did here, people would comment..."there? Look around at the garbage that passes for science there..." Then they wouldn't take another look. That doesn't happen anymore, thanks to the work by the steemSTEM project we don't have that visibility issue. The content that trends here is vastly improved, people aren't afraid to produce work here because good material is valuable. Good material can get noticed.
So while the project isn't actively going out and grabbing new authors (yet) we are bringing people here, as people are bringing others they know (I get messages about friends of community members intro posts pretty regularly) so what we are doing IS working. You can see it in the growth of authors supported.
@justtryme90 alright, I got it now. I'm going to try and get new people that fit the steemSTEM project. I have a couple of ideas in mind.
There are a lot of students Facebook Pages in Israel and some pages + groups that fit the niches - Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
And I know almost every FB page owner on Facebook Israel. ( some of these specific niches not all of them, but I'm 100% sure they know who are the rest owners )
I can chat with the owners and introduce them to Steem in general and steemSTEM in particular and maybe they'll post about it on their FB page. and maybe I'll purchase 1 or more page on these niches, I'm looking for pages to purchase anyway.
I'll update.
That would be great :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if payouts are high regardless of total viewers, then aren't current authors without whale-sized shares of steem incentivized to not tell anyone about steemit, because they view new authors as potential competitors for the reward pool? This is not only applicable to steemstem, but I can see how it can potentially stymie the growth of steemit if others view it this way and act accordingly.
I am not so sure, as a growth in the platform may be associated with a growth in the value of STEEM as well. I think there is not that feeling of competition within steemstem. At least I haven't felt it so far.
I love what you're doing. Hopefully, other whales decide to do the same. I try to go over as much steemstem related stuff as possible and curate it manually.
You can also follow the steemstem trail if you want, and if you trust us of course ;)
Is it possible to follow the trail only when your VP reaches a certain threshold, say >90%?
Everything is possible. Please contact us on discord :)
This is an excellent initiative @reggaemuffin. I currently only have around 130 SP myself, and I am actually looking to receive delegate SP myself as I focus on finding content that is undervalued in the cryptocurrency space - a space that I find is clouded with a few very high profile Steemians and has a tough barrier to entry.
I try and find high content value posts, with a low monetary value and upvote them, as even though my upvote is worth very little, the hope is that it will be worth more as I grow and continue to do the same. I am also running a blog series at the moment with a focus on bringing in new people and retaining them on Steemit, by showing them exactly what I do to earn upvotes on my content and how I positively contribute to the community.
I can't commit to delegate to @steemSTEM at the moment, but coming from an engineering background, I would really like to. When my account reaches 5K SP I will delegate 1K, and when it reaches 20K SP I will try to delegate 10K if there are no other community projects that I have delegated to.
Thanks for sharing this post, hopefully some people with a lot of SP will delegate some. Best of luck @steemSTEM!