We are getting closer to the weekend and that can only mean it is the time to start the first Scorum Patronage nomination round of 2019. I am actually one day late but the new year is already keeping my busier than expected.

Scorum Patronage started back in 2018 and as I promised before I will keep up what I started and continue assisting writers who aren't usually standing out in the Scorum spotlight.

This year too I will accompany one writer for seven days who will be chosen by the Scorum community and I will check out his or her profile to read and upvote one post a day. I hope my little support will encourage and motivate the chosen writer to continue writing interesting articles.

Starting here on Scorum can be a challenge and even users who have been around for a while often experience difficulties finding some readers for their often great sports blogs. I hope being assisted by my Scorum Patronage initiative will help bringing some light and attention to their blogs. And hopefully by being nominated the one or the other user might already feel motivated enough to write more wonderful articles about the fascinating world of sports.

This week I am assisting @raamesa, one of our fresh writers who has just joined before the turn of the year. As I usually do I will introduce him later in some separate post to show you what you have missed out.

You can find last round's winner announcement by following this link:

https://scorum.com/en-us/scorum/@sport-frei/scorum-patronage-round-7-an-easy-but-pleasant-decision-at-the-end-of-the-year

Nominations for WEEK 1:

Let's start the first round of Scorum Patronage in 2019. Like last year I want you to suggest Scorum users who deserve a little boost. I am not only thinking of new members of our community but also of writers who have been around for a while and who are still struggling getting attention with their work.

I don't care about the size of the Scorum wallet, but this time let's rather have a look on those users usual post rewards. To be eligible for winning a week of Scorum Patronage support the average post reward of the last 10 articles shouldn't be higher than 15 SCR. I am not going to be to strict about this figure, but please consider that the idea behind Scorum Patronage is to support users who don't usually get a high reward for their articles.

So let me repeat the question which I have already asked you several time before:

Which user here at Scorum deserves a little attention and should be supported by me for a week?

All you have to do is to write the name of the user in my comment section until coming Sunday.

I will then pick the candidate with the most nominations and accompany him/her for one week. If there is no leader in the nominations, I will select the one who has less SP in his or her wallet.

The blog of the user chosen by the community will be visited daily by me in the coming week and I will upvote one article per day with 100% . Hopefully this will generate some more attention and other users will start reading those articles too.

After the end of the Patronage Week, I would like to introduce the respective blogger to the community in a separate article and report about his or her work.

A few more things:

  • And to nominate everyone to join the nomination round I am planning on upvoting comments, which tell me why you are thinking that a particular user deserves being supported by me. And in addition, the comment which nominates this round’s pick FIRST, will get a full 100% upvote from me.
  • And I also need the nominees to be writing in a language I can understand, this will be in English or if you are really cool also in German. Unfortunately other languages can't be considered.
  • To avoid that those articles only consist of a few pictures and link but no substantial content I explicitly reserve the right to reduce the value of my upvote. I want to encourage everyone to stick to level of quality which we all want to see here at Scorum.
  • Since the question came up last time: YES, you can also vote for the same user as someone before you. As more nominations somebody get as more likely is the chance this user will be on top at the end.
  • I would be great to see the names of writers whose post don't usually get much attention and aren't visited so much. I know there are many outside who really try to bring something to Scorum but who aren't so successful yet. After starting it can be challenging and it might not feel very encouraging, when our post seem to be lost in the big Scorum nirvana.

What do we need to create a successful platform?

That is the big question and many of us are already working on different ideas and initiatives to bring Scorum up to the next level. We are still in the beginning and there is still lots of space for everyone to join and to be creative.

The idea behind Scorum Patronage is to encourage everybody to become more engaging and start interacting with other users, especially the ones who have just joined our wonderful platform. We all need to help building some strong and genuine community, were people start look behind their own horizon and start thinking long-term.

That's why I am hoping for lots of interesting nominations for WEEK 1 in 2019. Checking out different writers is also a great chance for me to broaden my own horizon and to get more involved on Scorum myself.

If you have any questions or just want to chat please hook me up on Discord. Scorum Patronage is running some channels on the "I am Scorum"-server were you can see recent announcements and nominations and you will have a chance to discuss any problems or suggestions.

Catch you guys soon...

Love and Respect !