And the decision is made!
The new week has just started and I am here to announce our next Scorum Patronage beneficiary, who I will assist during the next seven days.
Let me start by saying thank you to everyone who joined this nomination round and also to all the people who upvoted my last article for more visibility.
This week too, I was planning on assisting one writer for a whole seven days and visit his or her blog to read and upvote one post daily. I am planning on using 50 to 100% of my voting power, according to length and quality of each article. However, I reserve myself the right to lower my vote if I feel a post is not making it up to the quality standards we would like to see here at Scorum. Recently I often felt the need to upvote with less VP than initially planned.
What is Scorum Patronage?
The plan behind Scorum Patronage is to support and upvoye writers to help them to get their posts noticed by the Scorum community. We all have experienced how tough blogging can be, therefor it is essential to stay motivated. That's why I will visit, read and comment all posts of the "choice of the community" for the next seven days. And after that week, I'm also going to write an article where I will introduce that certain writer, what hopefully helps to shed some more light on their work
You can find this round's announcement by following this link:
Let's get back to the nominations. Every week I keep asking you the following question:
Which user here at Scorum deserves a little attention and should be supported by me for a week?
Today we are talking about four nominations, one of which was a self nomination which I didn't consider.
Another nomination was for a writer who is on the Scorum abuser list for plagiarism. Allegedly he is copying his work from another (Indonesian) news portal and after that he uses google translate to create an English post. His English posts are of poor quality and full of mistakes, and I am not willing to support such work through my Scorum Patronage initiative.
That left me with two more nominations but still in a difficult situation. One of the nominees' (@formulahub) post reward so far was higher than I initially planned to accept, but after checking the other nominees' (@desmond41) previous work it clearly shows, that @formulahub's articles are of way higher quality.
So I decided to give both a chance and go with two winners this week. @formulahub and @desmond41 will both be assisted by me this week, and both of them can earn a 50% upvote each for one post a day.
I will start upvoting from today and also leave some comments telling them that theywill be assisted by Scorum Patronage this coming week. Hopefully both will be able to find some new readers for their posts and feel motivated to provide us with some more quality posts.
To encourage everyone to stick to a certain level of quality I will reserve myself the right to upvote with less VP than actually planned, or even to refuse voting when I feel a writer isn't trying to meet the quality standards, which most people here on Scorum feel we need to hold up.
Some final words...
Recently I see more and more posts who are of clearly poor quality and sometimes even of poor English, just aimed at sneaking in some easy post rewards.
I know that most of us are not professional writers, but if we want to create some attractive sports blogging platform, then we need to work on writing interesting and informative articles which are not just geared towards generating some fast and easy post rewards.
I am not here to tell everybody how to write their articles, but I also don't want to support work which is of poor quality and full of spelling and grammar mistakes. It is usually easy to tell which writer makes an effort and tries to provide us with some useful information and who is here to help bringing Scorum up to the next level.
I am glad to find people here from different cultural backgrounds and from different regions from all around the world who are not here for the fast gain but rather for the long run. Since I have invested some of my own money here on Scorum, I am planning to stay for quite a while and I don't want to see people who don't care tearing down what others have build here so far.
Hopefully the Scorum community will see things in a similar light and will support the writer who genuinely care about building a strong and supportive network of like-minded people, who plan to grow and succeed together. I am here to do my part, of course not without any flaws, but ready and willing to learn and to correct myself.
As always I am open to your comments and suggestions. Just drop me a line or visit me in the Scorum Patronage channels which I am running on the "I am Scorum" Discord server. Stop by and and say "Hi" even if you just want to chat.
You can also find the latest announcements and the profiles of all the former beneficiaries. Feel free to join building a place were people share ideas about how to support other community member's grow and how to make the Scorum platform a huge success.
Catch all you guys soon...
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