The HumanBot Curator Incubator & Link Drop v2.1
This is not a place for self promotion. Drop links to posts by other authors in the comments.
Aspiring @curie curators please read the entire post and let me know you would like to become a @curie curator when you first drop a link!
Aspiring @curie curators should also read through this entire post and my responses to previous submissions in the comments before you start dropping off links - you may pick up some valuable pointers that will save us all some time instead of rehashing the same mistakes every beginning curator makes. For extra-credit reading please review my responses to comments at the Curator Incubator v2.0 & Curator Incubator v1.
Are you looking for a place to promote your own awesome post?
Newer authors (REP < 46) can promote their own post in the comments of my step-brother @thehumanbot's Charity Upvote posts! Here is a link to the current week's Charity Upvote Post (published December 10th) but please visit the @thehumanbot blog for the most recent post if you are reading this at some date in the future. Also, how is the future? Has Steem reached the moon yet?
What is new with Version 2.1?
Nothing major has changed from v2.0, hence no new major version renumber. The big change from v1 to the v2 numbering is that @humanbot / @carlgnash is not necessarily going to check every submission for original work and award a Badge of Originality if the post is original. The first post was a great success but going through every submission with the care necessary to award a Badge of Originality took more time than I actually had to give. See the CHANGELOG at the bottom of this post for a complete list of all changes.
Who or what is @humanbot?
@humanbot is an extension of @carlgnash; in a nutshell, the content review services that @carlgnash has previously offered on his blog are moving here. In addition, there are several new initiatives in the works to support great content on Steemit that will be gracing the @humanbot blog soon - stay tuned!
What is the Curator Incubator & Link Drop?
This is a place for aspiring curators and anyone who wants to help an undervalued post be seen by more eyes. Drop links in the comments to good posts (original content only please, no copy pasta) by undervalued authors.
If you are dropping off multiple links, please drop them all off in the same comment to make this thread more manageable as it grows.
How do you define "good posts by undervalued authors"?
"Good posts by undervalued authors" is purposefully not defined here. This is open to interpretation to a certain extent and any submission of original content by another author is welcome.
How will the Curator Incubator & Link Drop help undervalued authors and posts?
- @humanbot / @carlgnash will go through as many submissions as possible, awarding a Badge of Originality to posts that are both the original work of the post author and show some true originality and creativity (as subjectively determined by moi). When a badge is awarded the author will be followed by both @carlgnash and @humanbot and the post will be upvoted from both accounts as well. Read more about the Badge of Originality here.
- Good original content by undervalued authors (totally subjective determination here) will also receive an @r-bot upvote and associated trailing votes.
- I encourage everyone who drops a link here to take a minute to look at some of the other posts submitted in the comments. I would love to see comments from users of this link drop when I do go check on posts that have been submitted here! If you like a post, please tell the post author what you like about the post, or why you like it.
- Consider helping me curate the links in the comments here by upvoting submissions that you think are particularly good, to bring them up higher in the list.
Please do not drop links to your own posts here
This is not a space for self promotion. Dropping a link to your own post in the comments is a violation of the totally non-binding terms of service and may result in an alien spacecraft visiting your domicile and testing out the new transmogrification ray... but at the very least your post will be ignored.
To the aspiring @curie curators
@carlgnash is a curator for @curie. Let me speak in the first person here for a second as @carlgnash. I have achieved top curator status for @curie the past three weeks running and have every intention of doing so to the best of my ability in future weeks as well. Yes, this does mean that I can recommend curators to @curie any week that I was top curator the previous week. No, this does not mean you should DM me or otherwise harass me about nominating you. This post is the official channel for you to impress me with your curation ability. You can do this in several ways: - First, do not drop me links to your own posts or DM me about a curator nomination unless I specifically tell you to DM me. If you fail to follow these instructions, you will be instantly and forevermore blacklisted from future @curie nomination by me.
- Read this entire post and my responses to previous submissions in the comments before you start dropping off links - you may pick up some valuable pointers that will save us all some time instead of rehashing the same mistakes every beginning curator makes. For extra-credit reading please review my responses to comments at the Curator Incubator v1.
- Notify me that you are interested in becoming a @curie curator when you first drop a link off here in the comments.
- Drop me links to posts that you think are truly exceptional here in the comments so I can get a feel for your curation style, what you are looking for and what your idea of exceptional is.
- Please tell me why you feel the post is exceptional. Clearly articulating why you feel a post is exceptional and worthy of @curie adds bonus points to your submission.
- You do not have to stick to the @curie guidelines - I am more interested in getting a feel for what kind of content you think is exceptional.
- Bonus points if you submit good original posts outside of the fields of art/music/photography/travel blogging. It is harder to find good original content in areas like gaming, science, health, etc. There is a lot of copy pasta and it is often much more difficult to tell with those kinds of posts if it is plagiarism. Prove to me you can identify quality original content in tags like this!
- Read through the posts that are left here in the comments by other users and tell me in the comments here if you think any are exceptional, and if so, why you feel that way. Please do not go through the comments here and trash submissions, telling me why you think they suck. Only reply to a post submitted by someone else in the comments here if you think it is an awesome post, and in that case, please say why you feel this way. If you can clearly articulate what you like about a post dropped here by another user, that will be points in your favor when I consider recommending you to @curie.
- I encourage you to leave good thoughtful comments in response to posts that you find through the incubator. If you like a post, please tell the post author what you like about the post, or why you like it. As I work my way through submissions you will earn bonus points if I see you have been actively engaged in commenting.
- Check posts that are submitted here for plagiarism. If you can prove that a post submitted here for review is plagiarized, please leave any proof you have (link to the original content, suspicious posting patterns by the author, garbled language that seems to have been translated by software, etc.) here in the comments. A big part of being a @curie curator is being able to detect plagiarized content. Prove to me that you have a talent for this and you are ahead of the game.
Cheers - @humanbot / @carlgnash
Let the link dropping commence!
original @humanbot art by @carlgnash
CHANGELOG:
v2.1: 12.11.17 4:06am UTC
- Updated link to point to current @thehumanbot Charity Upvote Post
- Updated version change text to reflect no major changes since v2.0
v2.0.1: 11.20.17 9:06pm UTC
- Instruction added for aspiring @curie curators to read the entire post and responses to comments before dropping links; extra credit-reading link to v1 comments
- Instruction added "If you are dropping off multiple links, please drop them all off in the same comment to make this thread more manageable as it grows"
v2.0: 11.13.17 10:02pm UTC
- Name change to "The HumanBot Curator Incubator & Link Drop" from "The HumanBot Curator Incubator | Link Drop | Original Works Verifier"
- @carlgnash / @humanbot no longer promises to review every submission, but will review as many as time allows
- Link added to step-brother @thehumanbot for a place that authors can self promote their own posts
- Instructions to aspiring @curie curators updated and expanded
v1.0.1: 11.8.17 1:52am UTC
- Added Badge of Originality art and post link
- Added original works authors will receive a @humanbot follow
- Clarified original works will receive either a @humanbot upvote or a @carlgnash upvote (whichever is greater)
- Edited "To the aspiring Curie curator" section to encourage commenting on posts, and to encourage non art/music/photography/travel posts
SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED - please visit the new Curator Incubator Post:
https://steemit.com/curation/@humanbot/the-humanbot-curator-incubator-and-link-drop-v3-0
https://steemit.com/fiction/@ronyxoxo/faith-hope-and-love
Do check this Out . I wanna be Curie Curator
I really enjoyed this. Great submission. This is a post that could well have been submitted and might have been upvoted by curie, but I don't think it is a sure bet. There were portions that I would say are exceptional, but taken as a whole the writing is a little uneven. It is still a very good post. You are already impressing me :) Drop me by another good post here in the comments. Impress me again and we will talk about Curie curator :)
https://steemit.com/technology/@unacomn/japan-to-prevent-employees-working-overtime-with-drones
Okay that is just flat out hilarious. Both the original news story that prompted this piece, and the post itself. The real world is indeed stranger than fiction. Thanks for sharing this one! I awarded my "Badge of Originality" and the post will get the @humanbot vote trail, which should end up over $2.
BTW I forgot to ask, are you dropping links by here in part because you are interested in becoming a Curie curator? Of course I welcome everyone to drop by links here regardless, but looking at this piece through the Curie lens IMO it is probably a little short and the original news story would need to be sourced. I actually think the writing is exceptionally funny and the quality of the writing is quite good. Typically when writing is the primary device of a post (e.g. the post does not contain exceptional original art, photography, music, etc.), you don't often see posts of this length or shorter getting upvoted through Curie. I would think it was a risky submission primarily because of this reason (as well as citing the source for the news story, but that isn't that big a deal here as the bulk of the post is original fiction).
I have added this poster to my "Curie Follow" query and will not be surprised in the slightest if he ends up posting something that I can submit to Curie. Thanks for this submission here!
Cheers - Carl
A motivational Post.
https://steemit.com/motivation/@christianosei/you-are-destined-to-reign
https://steemit.com/life/@peculiarmary/give-me-that-heart-in-children-let-me-go-on-5bb00e8f8714
Checking these now. I am sure you were thinking you would increase your visibility here by upvoting but it actually caused me to miss these until now. Don't upvote your comments here, when I am checking this post I scroll to the bottom of the comment thread. I missed these because of that. I will report back shortly on the links :)
EDIT:
Okay I am back having read the links. The "You are destined to reign" piece is very clearly religious, which is one of the general categories of posting that is not eligible for a Curie (check out the Expanded Guidelines pinned to the #curie channel in steemit.chat for the full list). Even if that was not the case, the post is pretty short and the writing is not exceptional. This is not a Curie worthy post.
"Give me that heart in children" is a good post but not an exceptional post. There are quite a few errors in language usage - this can be excused when the author speaks English as a second language, but the post would have to be really exceptional to be approved by Curie in this case. Most of the images are not original and are not sourced from free-use sources (even though at least there are source links for all images). I think this post would fall under the category of a "nice" but not "exceptional" post, and Curie is looking for exceptional. I did upvote this post through @r-bot though :)
Cheers - Carl
Ok thanks I'll find some exceptional posts.
https://steemit.com/story/@jayna/writing-workshop-volume-10-perspective-and-point-of-view-pov-in-fiction-writing
Her workshops should be worth more!
Ah I couldn't agree with you more. This series is really an amazing resource for authors and is criminally under-rewarded. This same post, if by an author of REP lower than 53, would absolutely be a post worthy of submission to Curie. I was very happy to give this post a nice boost through @humanbot / badge of originality and @r-bot. Thanks for dropping this off here. Cheers - Carl
Thanks.✊
https://steemit.com/blog/@entrepreneur.hub/designing-a-killer-post
This is a pretty good post - I certainly agree with all the advice, and the original infographic is a nice touch. I would say however that in general, this type of article carries a lot more weight when it comes from an account that has been around for longer and already has a track record of writing good posts, not to mention accumulated some REP. It is almost a Steemit punchline to see a "How to succeed on Steemit" or "How to write a great post" post written by a brand new author/account who has not succeeded yet nor proven the ability to write great posts. If I had $1 SBD for every time I saw an author with REP <30 write a "How to succeed on Steemit" post I would be rich :) I do see some value in this post though, particularly with the advice to write about something you are passionate about and to take the time to edit/re-read and remove extraneous words to make the final post more concise. I upvoted the post through @r-bot. Thanks for sharing - Cheers - Carl
Wow what a piece of writing this one:
https://steemit.com/life/@sharonomics/to-give-or-not-to-give
It has everything that a good writing warrants. Sitting at over 5 hours at 46 cents it is grossly undervalued. I wish I was a whale or a curator to give it the push it deserves. Take a look and if you disagree I am outta here.
Agreed this is good writing. But I am getting some strange vibes from those posts on that account, all the commenters who are resteeming, and the website. I am not 100% sure I have figured it out. I left a relatively lengthy comment on the post you linked and hope a reply there from @sharonomics will give me some more clarity. I did upvote the post through @r-bot and hope I don't end up regretting that. I have to ask you point blank - are you (@bitbulls) and @sharonomics the same (are both accounts controlled by the same person)?
Well you can message me anytime on my Telegram group and provide me your email where I can share my telephone to talk to me.
I would prefer if you just answered what was a simple question - are you and @sharonomics the same individual? Looking at the early history of the @sharonomic account it seemed like this was a distinct possibility as they resteemed a ton of your posts in a row. The other thing I am wondering is if you are NOT the same, are you both part of some kind of resteem ring? Quite a few of the accounts that commented/resteemed the post you linked to got Cheetah flags/downvotes on their comments saying they had resteemed, and when I investigated all those accounts were pretty easily linked through the wallet transaction history to known low REP spammers...
Best case scenario, you are unrelated to @sharonomics and @sharonomics is just oblivious to the fact that they are handing out $1 upvotes to accounts which funnel their income to known blockchain spammers/scammers. But you can see why I want to dig a little deeper here. I should have done my due diligence before I upvoted the linked post with @r-bot, but now that I have already done this, I want to follow up as best I can to make sure I did not accidentally support spammers/scammers here.
Please note I am not assuming you are guilty of anything. I just noted some things that make it at least possible you are associated with this activity, and that is why I asked you.
EDIT - Ah, I see through the Telegram group link you shared that you are probably associated with Autonio, which has the partnership with AlgoShare / @sharonomics. That may explain some of the resteem activity I saw on the early account history from @sharonomics. Of course that still leaves the question of why shell accounts for blockchain spammers/scammers are getting $1+ upvotes from @sharonomics..
Cheers - Carl
Autonio is my project and the only thing @sharonomics has to do with it is a joint venture in which they want to use our trading bot to build a layer of AlgoShare on top and build a DEX. Sir, I am a simple guy neither as educated as @sharonomics, nor I am good with words. So I will leave it to him to do the explaining.
Thank you very much for this response. I appreciate it. I wish you the best of luck in your venture, it really does look cool. Cheers
I want to apologize for choking up the comments of the post you linked with my long winded questions and replies. I just got the feeling I had unwittingly upvoted a poster who was supporting scammers here on Steem blockchain. From your reply and @sharonomics I am pretty sure that this was unintentional, and I hope I didn't cause you any distress. My apologies. - Carl
https://steemit.com/news/@entrepreneur.hub/top-10-start-ups-going-to-boom-in-2018
This is good info, I think it worth more
Huh this may just be a coincidence but it seems a little strange that a brand new account like the @entrepeneur.hub, that has so few followers, was linked twice here already - are you the same person as @afzal-anees / @entrepeneur.hub? Looking at the list of follows/followers for your account, @afzal-anees and @entrepeneur.hub it seems a possibility...
RE the post itself, it is a nice compilation of promising companies (although I certainly wouldn't classify Ripple as a "start-up" LOL) and it does appear to be original work. I upvoted through @r-bot
https://steemit.com/technology/@unacomn/the-ram-price-conspiracy
Interesting post, and sounds pretty credible. I wish that there were more sources provided or some kind of info on where he got this information - is it all just common knowledge? Maybe it is, I don't know. Seems like the kind of post that could definitely have used some sources at the bottom for further reading, if not inline sources for some of the various claims. Thanks for dropping this by here - upvoted through @r-bot
Wouldn't be a conspiracy if there were sources. But for the actual stuff: China entering the market next year, Samsung's CEO being arrested for bribery and embezzlement, 3 companies owning the entire DRAM market, those are common knowledge in this space. The only one that wasn't is the connection between drug money and the RAM market, that's not something that turns up at a simple search, so I sourced that.
Wait I didn't catch that you were a secret vampire before! It all makes a lot more sense now. I bet all kinds of things are common knowledge to secret vampires. Don't worry, your secret is safe with me and the rest of the blockchain LOL
Cool thanks for that! Like I said I wasn't sure as I am definitely NOT up to speed on this topic at all. Very interesting and at first blush it seems pretty likely that you are right on the money here :) Cheers - Carl
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@stellarr/introducing-my-in-these-shoes-what-will-you-do-series
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@stellarr/cut-on-her-shattered-pieces
https://steemit.com/funny/@stellarr/sms-language-do-you-mind
This Steemian is new to steemit but doing very well. I think her writing needs to be encouraged. Newcomers to steemit easily get discouraged.
Hey thanks for dropping these by. I really like her! I upvoted the shattered pieces through @r-bot and upvoted/commented on a more recent post with my main account. Totally the kind of good poster that we should encourage to stay here, you are right. I added her to my "Curie Follow" query and will be keeping an eye on her posting :)
Cheers - Carl