What's up Scorum?

The last few days the weather and atmosphere over here in the very Far East has been just amazingly pleasant and I can only hope those great day will last a little longer. We are actually right in rainy season now but so far I can't really complain.

Since it is Thursday again I am here to call out for you and to invite you to join my Scorum Patronage initiative. I am asking for nominations of other Scorum writers who could be in need of some support and assistance. SO if you come across another promising and talented user, please leave his or her name in the comments of this post.

On Sunday then I will check all your nominations and choose the "winner of this round", the next beneficiary of a whole week of Scorum Patronage. My job won't be finish yet, since from then one I will accompany the chosen user for a whole week to read his articles and to support him or her with my upvotes. Which will hopefully help to bring some more attention to their profile and to encourage them to continue writing quality sport blogs.

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-23-the-community-has-spoken

Nominations for WEEK 24:

Let's start the twenty fourth 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..

Lately I have noticed some headed discussion here on Scorum again and I have decided to not fully involve myself. Of course I will tell my opinion when needed, but I also noticed that there is usually nothing to win when we step into some fiercy exchange of argument, yet there is a lot we can lose. Since there are usually not all information on the table for everyone to see and check, it is really hard to actually take sides. And most people don't play with open cards but rather try to fish for attention.

Nuff said from my side!

Right now I would rather like to focus on supporting other people through curation. I have build up some decent Scorum Power and would love to use it on nicely written, informative and creative articles. Plus it feels good to give back to the people in my network who have been supporting me and my work before. You know, it is also a give-and-take-game!

And to broaden my own horizon I have started the Scorum Patronage initiative, so I can permanently discover writers I haven't come across before. I do think it is essentiall to not only read the articles of the people in our close network, but also support users who are'nt able to give back to us so much yet. Look at it as a future investment, an investment into creative people and a thriving and promising community.

Alright, now I will leave it to you to jump into the comments comments and leave some thrilling 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 !