RE: Team Europe – Still Digging, Still Hoping (Report #1)
I spent a good chunk of my day skimming through curation reports and the nominated content. It's been a while since I last walked out of my usual reading zone, but reading yours, the-gorilla's and denmarkguy's recent posts made me do it. While at the end of the day, I did find some great articles and new users to follow (loving the European additions), all thanks to your (and all other diligent curators') efforts. But there was some below average content making it to the top too. Is it that bad? I know it's easier to judge sitting on the other side of the stage but isn't it better to not nominate at all then featuring something with 5 kilos of spelling errors just because the author(also a curator) in question might return your favour. Or is it just me who can't see the talent because it is voted by not one but two curation teams. Which brings me back to NO Questions — some people do spend less than 30 minutes on a post and don't bother proofreading their could-be-great content and for some curators "greed" is not a negative term.
We all have different ideas as to what’s good. In our case, we spent far too long searching for the content we’ve selected. It really shouldn’t be this difficult.
Based purely upon numbers, if we vote at 50%, we need 20 posts per day. If there are 11 teams, that’s 220. 7 days per week, we’re talking over 1500 posts per week of a sufficient quality to get support. Even the bigger communities have fewer than 200 active posts, most of which aren’t worth the bandwidth they’re consuming (both literally and mentally).
It’s literally a race to vote on the known authors which is why you’ll find that almost every comment under our posts is also supported!
How do you feel about joining our team for the week and experiencing it for yourself?
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I know content quality is purely a subjective matter. But spelling correctly is a basic standard or is it not? Specially when it changes the whole meaning or makes the statement absurd?
Like I said, it was easy for me to judge, I didn't want to write this (knowing all the issues curators face) but there was this post that made me lose it. I know it's difficult and how time taking it is — thank you for the Maths, the situation sounds even more grave. 🙄
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Especially 😜
It's very time consuming and I wouldn't be surprised if other curators take a shortcut to save themselves a lot of time. I'd definitely be more careful with pick of the week though!
I talked to the team about it earlier in the week as we were getting increasingly frustrated. As the week progressed, we upped our voting percentage to ensure that we could sleep!
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Oops. Bad timing. 😅
I totally understand all the troubles. It gets more difficult with sc03 — the percentage handling.
That's just what I'm saying.
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It's probably best that I avoid looking at what other people are doing. I was shared another "pick of the week" today and... I... erm... yeah. You know.
I couldn't quite understand it. I came to the conclusion that it was AI generated and then rolled through a good dose of dog shit to the point at which it looked clever... but was totally unreadable. Pick of the week that was. Funny how I was able to guess who nominated it too.
But they're "overcoming the difficulty" so you know, that's ok.
Did you ever play a game called "bollocks" at school?
Haha, you know what the whole situation reminds me of right now? The day we finally decided to found the NO Community... 😉
Can you imagine that we (oh yes, a community effort in a shared document...) even worked on this report for a little over half an hour? Hm, about two days in total... the three of us!
I'm laughing my arse off! It has never occurred to me before to give spelling mistakes in kilograms. I'm going to steal that idea from you without permission and just weigh it from now on!
The problem is sad and serious. It's cheeky and disrespectful to publish something like this in the age of correction programmes. That's one side of it. The other side is the impertinence of people who have no idea about the language used ‘curating’ something like this. If they translate at all, the translator corrects the mistakes...
I had such a case in DU. A businessman who certainly wouldn't think of sending such spelling rubbish as an email to his customers. You don't need to correct for Steemit... I never voted for him for that reason (and told him so), but on foreign curator accounts he was on the subscription list. Annoyed me a tiny bit sometimes...
He now corrects the texts... 😊
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It's all good and exciting if you stay in No Community. The minute you step out.... it starts getting frustrating. I should go back into my bubble.
I can totally imagine the time and effort you guys have put into this report and curation.
In this case, kilograms seemed to add more weight to my claim than tons. 😅
Can spellings be fixed with a translator? Especially when the new word has a tangible meaning. Like "knee" and "keen".
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Next time you're having a browse, I recommend popping into the Ukrainian community. There's a highly active core that breathes a lot of life into the community (hence the number of nominations this week!).
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The good thing is: when it's time to return to the bubble, I definitely don't feel guilty about it... 🤪
The good programmes that check grammar and meaning at the same time can do this. Google can't...
I think we might even have started it more than 2 days ago!
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Yes, you’re right. But do we really have to publicly admit just how truly, truly stupid we are?!
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