Is it easy to be a Moderator/Curator?
Hello my dear Steemians,
Yesterday while curating the posts I came across of this comment of the user who just second time posted in WOX one yesterday and another 3 months ago and previously was always posting in “Steem-bru”. He left this comment under the post of one of our Artist:
When I saw that comment then it made me very sad and to tell the truth I was upset and maybe even angry if people have such feeling that the WOX community that is known to be friendly did not visit the member.
Of course, I left this message and I will translate it for you:
“Stef1:
Yes, we are active curators and even many of us speaking Russian Language, but time to time we do work in real life, we need some sleep and also we are busy with other important stuff in our life. As to the posts, they can be upvoted within 7 days.Moreover having more than 600 active users we not always have an opportunity to visit all of the users, therefore, I advise all newcomers to be more active. For example, looking at your blog, you have Upvoted only yourself and @marochka and have written only 2 comments. Be more active!”
When we created this community we wanted to give a space for people to feel themselves like at home and being able to post, communicate and engage themselves.
That is a reason why we have Moderators who are coming from different countries and speaking different languages.
We are doing our Moderator tasks because we wanted to give users a feeling of good looked after.
- daily checking the posts of users in WOX community
- organizing Contests and giving away our own Steem
- checking daily for Plagiarism and stop abuse within our community
- guiding newcomers, advising what is better to be seen and trying to get them engaged in our community activities
- encouraging commenting the users and so on…
That is why if you would like to have a feeling how the Curator/ Moderator work is looking like then try yourself:
- Visit at least 10 - 20 people, Upvote and comment....daily
- Get engaged in comments exchange with others
- If you are in the community for long time you can help out newcomers through this difficult time of early stage on Steemit.
The post makes me think back, I was brand new to steemit in 2016 and became member number 20,757
Even then, it was difficult to be seen and heard.
It seemed like all the whales and those with bigger accounts just cared about each other. (But that was not the case)
It took a while before I got comments and upvote on my posts.
So I quickly understood that if anyone is to know me, I must also communicate with the others here.
It was the beginning that I visited many posts and gave comments, and I got to know more and more people here.
So I want to say, it's about building trust and friendship here at steemit before one can expect to be rewarded.
So I want to ask the question
How will others know about you if you do not communicate with other users, but only make posts?
maybe I want to answer a little of this question, this is about myself and other people, especially in Aceh, actually in Aceh itself there are very many active users who want to join WOX with their respective talents, moreover this community is very famous, maybe someone will come. then leave not because this community doesn't accept them, maybe it's an open secret to us, not because they don't want to introduce themselves to each other, it's because the scope is limited and don't want to be someone who is looking for opportunities to grow so it's better they keep quiet , many of them prefer to leave because of them and be more active there and get to know more people, I'm not here to blame anyone, this is a fact and many internal problems have not been resolved and as if nothing happened
Absolutely right, the same happening with the neighbors if you have next door, you maybe aware about them but if they are good or bad and if you will help them of not depends on our behavior.
Thank you for taking time and I am pleased to read your experience, I believe many of us come to this conclusion through our own experience, hope people reading that will understand and use this tip for their own progress and their future goals what they like to achieve :)
i joined steemit yesterday and all along i have been thinking i do not have to comment until i complete the new comers achievements, am greatful for this post.
I support it!!! Let's arrange such a flash mob. At least for a week to make 10 comments daily under the works you like!
This practice will benefit everyone ! And for each member and for the whole community as a whole!
I urge everyone to get involved in this work!
I think this is great idea, let's think about and we can involve Steemcurator too. Will be great to see the comment chains :)
To gain support, you need to interest a potential reader. If the author writes only to be supported by the moderator, he will be disappointed. Not enough for all moderators.
I support a very correct proposal. Once you've posted your own post, take a moment to visit other members of the community.
Do you see what reputation the community has gained? I completely agree with that :)
That is right, I believe in old time of Steemit, people new that there are only people around who may like or not like their posts. Nowadays we are spoiled and wait for the Curators, but people stop doing anything else, just doing post. Why it is so? Is it because some of the communities and people advertise Steemit as money making machine when doing posts?
I will tell you my own experience. When I signed up for Steemit, I started visiting different communities and analyzing what content was supported here. Of course, I was interested in those posts that had the most profit. So I found authors like udibekwe, mukada and a few others I don't remember. Their posts are complete shit, but they get good money. We all know that they just use bid bots, but at the time I didn't know they existed. My logical conclusion was to publish as many shitty posts as possible to earn more. Only later did I realize that quality is also valued on this platform.
To be honest curators are really doing a great job. It’s not easy at all . I can remember a time I engaged myself in a comment contest, I thought it was easy at first but at the long run I couldn’t keep up. All the curators and admins you all are doing a great job.
I started to do curation when "curie" project was there and I remember they paid great attention to comment organizing contest and rewarding the guys. Since then I got used to read posts and write comments and that is time consuming, especially if someone would like proper answer. I wish I could have more time but there is only 24 hours in one day :)
Yes you are right and sometimes 24hrs is no longer enough.
Me encanta la comunidad de worldofxpilar es como dices una comunidad amigable, también visitó otras y permanezco cómo curadora de almas en topfamily, así me dió por llamarme.
Hace poco hice un post preguntando si era importante los comentarios e indicando algunas ideas de lo qué debería a mí entender llevar un comentario. Dar nuestro voto es importante, comentar es lo más valioso qué tenemos. Todos somos curadores.
No es sólo un "buen post" para dejar palabras en su contenido, sino algo que cómo participante, nos haga comprender lo qué entendió el lector.
Es verdad fuera de está pantalla tenemos una vida y somos responsables de un hogar, de un trabajo y sin embargo amanecemos porqué nos encanta leer y contar nuestras historias.
Me encanta la variedad y lo creativo de los temas en mí comunidad, son 4 años aquí, tanto en las altas cómo en las bajas.
Siento no traducirlo pero estoy en el móvil y no soy muy hábil en el.
Seguimos en éste camino de mucho aprendizaje. He visto tú labor de sacar de los espacios los que plagian contenido, nada fácil de hacer, localizar, mirar y comparar.
Un abrazote @stef1
Thank you @sacra97 for your lovely comment, I remember you from the time when we created the community and I remember your post when you also like many others applied for the Moderator of WOX community. It is always a pleasure to read your thoughtful comment even if they are in Spanish, slowly but surely it became normal that we use the Goode-translator. In my opinion commenting is very important because that created bonds between us and makes us to be here and like you say waking up and read what is happening like a newspaper. Appreciate for your stopping by and nice supportive words :)
Sí uso en traductor para mantenerme en contacto, no hay límites a la hora de apoyar con buenos comentarios a nuevos y viejos participantes. No te sientas mal por ese comentario tan desagradable, ve todas las muestras de apoyo qué tienes por aquí, por un bonito y constante trabajo. No se cuántas personas visitó pero sé que son bastantes.
Cuándo regrese a casa en Venezuela, tendré la computadora a mano y se me hace más fácil participar más.
Agradecida y siempre atenta.
Haklısınız işiniz çok zor ve insanları memnun etmekte zor. Herkesin empati yapması gerekli. Kolaylıklar dilerim.
Thank you for stopping by and glad that you are sharing our opinion.
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I am proud of WOX moderator, it helps members a lot. I also know that the moderator's job is heavy. Hopefully WOX members can understand and interact well
Thank you @kakilasak for your feedback and as you say through the communication I have learnt your Travel posts with the wonderful places and parks that you are visited and also I remember the post about the Birthday of your sister. Only this way we get used to each other and that will help to keep our community connected via our users :)
Almost everyone finds it difficult in the early stages, totally agrees with you to help and point them in the right direction. But I'm very proud of the WOX moderators who are always working and looking for posts that deserve support. I received many complaints from friends in other communities that there was still a lot of nepotism, the moderators only supported those closest to them.
Thank you @adivender for your lovely comment and I am really glad to have such users like you. Every comment that you write has something from you and you never write simple short messages but there is something that made me remember you. You are one of the active members of our community and it is a pleasure to learn you :)
It's also nice to have a Moderator like you, no matter separated by distance and different races, but you give LOVE to all. Thanks @stef1!.
Many authors believe they have the right to be supported by the simple fact of publishing continuously, leaving aside the duty to visit and support other publications, thus showing the incoherence of wanting to demand from others what they do not do themselves.
World Of Xpilar is a community that has a great variety of ways to provide support to users who make life in the community, I do not think that today there is a similar one, here we can see the different support programs:
https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@adeljose/world-of-xpilar-the-ideal-world-report-85
Thank you @adeljose, yes, it is sometimes feels like people simply send the post and waiting for reply. But whey not actively engaging and getting the attention of the users of the community key people. We are all around and always happy to help. I believe if people would like to get something from Steemit then they also should invest t heir time into it like in any jobs :)