Hello Scorum!

Here am I again, this week way more often than usual. I am still pretty thrilled that my team Union Berlin has finally found its way into the German Bundesliga. Gonna be a wicked season from summer.

But today it's gonna be time for Scorum Patronage again, my little initiative to support other less-known writers. I want to invite all of you to join and to nominate some user who could be in need of some assistance. On Sunday I will eventually choose the one who gets nominated the most, and from then on it will be my job to visit the "chosen one's" profile for a whole week to check out their articles and support their work through my upvotes.

I will not only upvote the winner's posts, but also give out a big vote for the comment which nominated this round's winner 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-21-the-community-has-spoken-going-for-the-double-whopper-again

Nominations for WEEK 22:

Let's start the twenty second 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 first 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 another big 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...

The whole situation here on Scorum can be really frustrating these days and it might not be easy to stay motivated being around here.

As more I appreciate some users who don't stop pointing out the strong points and big advantages Scorum still has to offer. Sure no one knows where we are sailing and it might feel we are heading straight toward the edge, but I am glad that there are still some voices out who are encouraging me to stay focus and to continue what I have started here.

Sure Scorum Patronage has seen some better times too, higher participation and -yes!- better nominees. But we are all doing a good job here trying to keep this initiative alive. There are still some more writers out who need our support and who appreciate what we are doing.

Therefor I can assure everyone that i won't give up at this point, I am actually planning to never give up at all and going the whole way to the very end. So stay with me and let's take the ride all together. I am pretty positive the reward will be immense!

So now it's gonna be your job to stop by in the comments and leave some buzzing nomination.

I am curious who you are coming up with this week, and where I am heading next to explore and discover new users here on Scorum.

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 !