I'm calling for a community vote. Your input is required!
As per my right as a #steemsilvergold community member, I'd like to bring somethings to your attention and then ask that you "VOTE" on an outcome.
We all know that #steemsilvergold is a community of like minded stackers that want to help spread knowledge and experiences around collecting precious metals.
What I have been noticing as of late is that some members of #steemsilvergold are NEVER posting about precious metals. I totally get that no one can post about PMs on a daily basis, everyday of the week, and that other interests are also covered, but I would expect to see a few precious metal posts in the last month.
Which brings me on to the first vote -
DO WE NEED TO REMOVE SOME ACCOUNTS AND CULL THE CURRENT MEMBER LIST?
Which then leads me on to a particular hate of mine......
Accounts only wanting to join #steemsilvergold to gain access to @ssg-community and the incredible ROI it offers.
You may think I'm being a little crazy, but the amount of messages I receive on a daily basis from accounts wanting to know how to join, shows me that #steemsilvergold is known through out steemit as a community that rewards its members highly.
So when I see accounts pressing all the right buttons and saying all the right things to get access to #steemsilvergold and then the moment they delegate to @ssg-community and start getting daily upvotes to never be heard from again, it really grinds my gears.
If we are meant to be a community, shouldn't these accounts atleast interact with other #steemsilvergold members??
So my second vote is to ask -
SHOULD THERE BE A COOLING OFF PERIOD TO START GETTING A VOTE FROM @SSG-COMMUNITY AFTER JOINING #STEEMSILVERGOLD?
What I mean is, should you have to wait a month after joining ssg to start getting a daily upvote from ssg-community? As it stands, you can write a blog today, be nominated tomorrow and start getting an upvote the day after..... Should this be changed? This way, during the "cooling off period", group moderators can make sure accounts are compatible with remaining in #steemsilvergold and then receiving the benefits that come with it.
Which now leads me on to my 3rd and final vote -
SHOULD WE RE-INTRODUCE THE 1% VOTE FOR ALL MEMBERS FROM @SSG-COMMUNITY?
At the moment, my current answer to that is A BIG FAT NO!! There are just too many members that as far as I can see never contribute to the community to warrent a free upvote.
If members list is culled and a cooling off period is introduced, I would gladly change that to a resounding YES!!
We all need a little helping hand when we are first starting off. The 1% upvote was introduced to help newbies gain enough steempower to move up to basic member and delegate 10sp to Precious.
That being said, if members are sitting on steempower of say 500+ and don't delegate the 10sp min, should they really get a free 1% when they have the opportunity and the means to get a better upvote? Maybe the 1% upvote could be a short term introductory offer for new members to make sure they get enough sp to "pay their own way"......
OK, I've kept you all long enough. Please leave your comments below.
I hope the group mods will take a read through and get back to me.
Viva la ssg #ssg4life
I'm not a member of SSG, so I have no place to vote on specific issues. The reason why I am commenting is because I do run a community based upvote bot that looks after a few communities. In my long-range planning I do hope to implement community engagement rules. Here is a summary of my thoughts.
Community is about engagement. Mostly that's comments and replies on member posts. Secondarily it's voting on member posts. Posting on topic is important but doesn't have to occur that often.
Every community will have a different profile but without engagement, it's not community.
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Very true words and thank you for your input.
I am like @silver510. When I first joined, I followed everyone on ssg. I posted daily, and commented and upvoted those who posted articles everyday, via the steemsilvergold tag. The days I don't, it is because I physically can't. Do I expect the same from others, you bet I do! Not everyone in ssg are blogger/writters, because I certainly am not one. I am not a literary writer with a knack with words and article compositions. But I am a true stacker... not a make believe or pretend one. And I share my journey of stacking with ssg via my simple articles and likewise derive inspiration and motivation from those of you share their pick-ups, stack and collection. And to me, that is all worth being here in this community. Because I visit ssg member articles, upvote and leave comments, it is natural to expect the same courtesy and engagement from the ssg member who benefits from my engagement. If there is no reciprocity, then the concept that ssg community is a "family" is false. There are false stackers and false family members of this community. I think that the members who do not engage others, whether they themselves post articles or not, must be culled-out. Engagement is valuable in this blockchain.
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The day I got accepted to the community, I took the entire list of members and followed them. After NEVER seeing a post about anything relates to our community for over 6 months I lost over 60% of them. Clean house Welshie.
Yes to 30 day trial before precious.
No to free upvote. 10 SP is a $4 investment are you kidding me....
Ditto!
Yup, what 510 said.
WHAT @silverd510 Said, I have the SAME Sentiments Exactly......
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Now that I'm over 800sp I'd like to delegate more than the 10sp minimum, actually I don't think I have even done that. Yeah so my dust vote will go down to Sub-dust levels again. So I owe it to my friends here that supported my Part-time Steeming even though I won't come close to exercising my daily upvotes, I will be content that unclaimed funds in my part will benefit others in this community.
That’s why I’ve been against using Delegations... I could benefit myself, but there would be little left for others... Yes, I could do very well, if I thought more about me than others... Don’t think I haven’t noticed what’s been going on... I could have had a bought and paid for (72) Status... After two years and more than 850 Blogs, I’m not even a Minnow yet, with a (56) Reputation... And don’t think all my Blogs couldn’t have been in the “Trending” Section, making Big Payouts...
Membership Cull
Yes, I would be in favor of a membership cull but I would need more specifics. Like how often does a member need to post about PMs to not be culled? Take me for example, my last post about silver was 15 days ago. Is that too long of a gap? I think there should be some kind of rule about this, but it just needs to be reasonable. People have other interests and that should be okay!
Cooling Off Period
Depends. Do you mean that a new SSG member (not delegating yet to Precious) has to wait 30 days before they are eligible to delegate to and use Precious? If so, yes I'm for that.
If you mean that a new SSG member has to delegate to Precious but not receive an upvote for 30 days, no I don't think that's fair.
Free vote for all members
Right now I'd say no. Precious should only offer votes to those delegating or paying with liquid STEEM. In my opinion you should have some skin in the game. The vote from Precious should be reserved for those that contribute SP (or liquid STEEM) to the bot and community mods.
Great questions @welshstacker!
I am already working on cleaning up my following list, but I also know I have missed a lot of the newer members that I need to follow in my feed. A good clean list would be appreciated.
I try to make a special point to view all the “New” Posts, listed under the #steemsilvergold tag...
I never Start with the “Trending” Posts...
Now I have been gone for a while, maybe longer, but I like this idea Welshie.
It stops the ones that are only hunting around for an easy vote. Maybe even make it a mandatory "Money & Metals Monday" where everyone has to do their weekly Precious Metals post by Monday.
Idk, im tired and haven't been around in a while. But those are my tired ideas.
It just dawned on me i am not a member, i do think that there should be a threshold of at least one post about precious metals a month.
Trust me... If they're Paying for Up-Votes, they'll do whatever it takes...
I think posting minimums would be hard to verify - that would require someone to comb through members blogs once a month.
Some interesting questions being asked. Some members I’m sure are interested in PMs but for whatever reason don’t post regularly but as long as they’re interacting through comments and upvotes on #steemsilvergold posts is probably as valuable. I’m also all for the cooling off period. If you’ve not at least done a post about why your interested in the community then you shouldn’t be accepted. Like a probation period.
I’m not a fan of the flat 1% vote just for being a member, delegate if can afford to or comment if you can’t to build up some SP. maybe we had a dust membership where SSG can even delegate some SP for 30 days to get a new member going.
I am on vacation being navigator on some highway in New Jersey. So can’t respond with the vigor I would like to this post. ☺️
In the July 8 member post (after my vacay) was going to suggest inactivating people who seem to be off steemit. Like 40 folks who haven’t posted or commented in 6 or months. So that is also in the table.
I am cool with cool off.
Will look at this closer at bedtime. ☺️
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I bet $10 clad coins there will be no event.
But thank you! Been fun so far. ☺️
That would be like betting a Thousand Dollars worth of Debt Notes...