What's up Scorum?

Another lovely day in this lovely month of May. The weather has been beauriful over here in the East and we are heading straight for summer, I can't wait to finally not just walk the beaches here in town, but actually throw myself into the water.

I know things have been a bit shaky recently but I can easily sense that most of you are just not willing to give up yet. Same here that's why I want to invite you again to come over and join the next nomination round which will decide which user can get another Scorum Patronage.

Please leave me the name of a writer here on Scorum who in your eyes deserves more attention and could need some assistance to push their articles into the Scorum spotlight. You gonna have time until Sunday, when I will then choose the person who got most nominations, to declare him or her to our "winner of the week". After that it still will be my turn to visit the winner's profile to read and upvote their articles.

I will not only upvote the winner's posts, but also the comment who nominated this round's beneficiary first. In addition I will also throw in some more votes for those comments which explain why a certain nominee will be a great choice and why he/she needs my assistance. Hopefully this will finally lure more of you into joining the nomination round.

And don't forget, it doesn't have to be a new user!

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

https://scorum.com/en-us/scorum/@sport-frei/scorum-patronage-week-19-the-community-has-spoken

Nominations for WEEK 20:

Let's start the twentieth round of Scorum Patronage in 2019.

The question I usually ask is pretty easy and straightforward:

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

I want you to suggest Scorum users who need 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 for their work.

I don't care about the size of the Scorum wallet, but let's rather have a look on everybody's 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.

However, if there is a user who gets more than 15 SCR in average, but who you feel is doing a great job here on the Scorum platform, please feel free to nominate them anyways. Eventually I will check through all the nominees and accept all candidates who I think are worth of a week of Scorum Patronage.

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 by me daily in the coming week and I will upvote one article per day with up to 100% of my voting power, according to length and quality of the post. Hopefully this will generate some more attention and other users will start reading those articles too.

A few more things

  • You can nominate every writer who doesn't usually get a high post reward. As written above let's consider users who's last 10 articles get an average of not more than 15 SCR. And to motivate 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 before: YES, you can also nominate 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.
  • It 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.
  • As I mentioned before, the weekly beneficiary will not only be supported by me. @dexpartacus has committed himself to follow my lead and to also about the chosen Scorum member. We are growing strong! Thanks a lot!

Some last words...

Yes, we are already in round 20 this year. I had started my initiative last autumn and the first round in 2018 were quite promising with some nice interaction. But somewhere in winter participation slowed down noticeably and now I am actually glad if I can get one nomination at all. But that is actually all what I need to keep my initiative alive.

Sure, it would be nice to see more people joining, dropping names like crazy, but on the other hand I definitely prefer quality to quantity. Bring on the real gems, the writers who can really distribute interesting articles of high quality to our platform. I know these days, there aren't so many active people here on Scorum anymore, but apparently there are still some writers out I haven't discovered yet.

That's why I like my initiative myself, it gives me the chance to dig into different sports bloggers and sports, and I can see what writers you like and follow.

And I am doing it again and again, and I will be here at any given week waiting for your nominations and curating users you gonna suggest. As I always say, let's get out ouf our voting circles as well. Creating some strong links and support is essentiall, but let's also look beyond our own horizon and support other even if it won't be beneficial for ourselves in the first place.

So now it is up to you to stop by and leave some interesting names. I am curious who you are coming up with this week, and who I am going to explore and discover.

This said, I am ready to receive your nominations! And please don't hesitate to hook me up when you have questions or if you want to leave some comment or criticism. You can also find me in the Scorum Patronage channels which I am running on the I am Scorum discord server.

I am looking forward to reading from you.

Catch you soon...

Love and Respect !