What's up Scorum?


And it is Thursday again, the days and weeks are just flying like crazy. I have no idea where the time goes, somehow it feels this year has just started but will be over in just a blink. Now it is already November but I still feel the refreshing spring air as it was yesterday. I guess that is a clear sign that life isn't boring at all but rather keeps me well entertained. Especially my family keeps me rocking and rolling and gives me more back than I could ever imagine. Sure there are ups and downs, like there is night and day or ying and yang. It is not always easy to hold the balance but hopefully I am still on the right way.

And this is exactly what I hope for Scorum as well. Being on the right path and not meandering into the wrong direction. These days it is pretty hard to believe that Scorum is still following some kind of a plan, it feels like ages since we have heard from the dev team and the next update should now be due in 2020. It became pretty tough to hold on and not to loose the rest of that little faith left.

All the more it is important to encourage each other to not give up. My humble contribution is my Scorum Patronage initiative, to which I want to invite you today. On Thursday we usually start the nominations for the coming round and I need you to help me out here.

At first it's gonna be your job, please look back and thing which Scorum user could use some more support. Then nominate this user in the comment section of this post and leave the rest to me. On Sunday I will check through all nominations and chose the candidate who got nominate the most as our next beneficiary.

My job won't be finish yet, since from there I will accompany the chosen user for a total of seven days to read their articles and to support them with my upvotes. Which will hopefully help to bring some more attention to their profiles and to encourage them to continue writing quality sport blogs.

But I will not only visit the winner's blog, but in addition give out some big votes for the person who nominates this round's winner first. Plus I will also leave some upvotes on every genuine nomination or comments. Let's see if this will eventually bring some more people onto joining the nominations.

If you want to see the last winner's announcement, please follow this link:

https://scorum.com/en-us/scorum/@sport-frei/scorum-patronage-week-44-the-community-has-spoken

Nominations for WEEK 45

This gonna be the forty fifth round of Scorum Patronage in 2019. I usualy ask you a very simple a question:

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

Please nominate me some Scorum users who need some support or some initial boost. I am thinking about all those new members of our growing and creative community but also about everyone else who is having a hard time finding its place here on Scorum.

It is not so important how many Scorum Coins or Scorum Power somebody has in its wallet, I would rather like to focus on everybody's post reward. Let's try to find those users who don't usually get payed out big, but still try to provide some interesting and creative content. I will not set any limit anymore, but rather decide case by case and have a look on the candidates whole history.

As I said on Sunday I will choose the nominee who gets the most nominations and declare him or her to our winner of the week. If there is no leader in the nominations, I will choose the candidate who has less SP in its wallet.

I will then visit the blog of our chosen one on a daily basis to read and upvote one post a day for a whole week. Depending on quality and content I might use up to 100% of my voting power, however I strictly reserve myself the right to upvote with less or even to refuse a vote, when I feel an article doesn't live up to the quality level I would like to see here on Scorum.

Hopefully my assistance will help to bring our beneficiary into the spotlight and get his or her posts exposes to a bigger readership.

A few more things..

  • Important is that you our candidates write in a language I understand, therefor I will consider articles written in English or German. Sorry, other languages can't be accepted.
  • And of course you can nominate the same candidate as someone before. As more nominations somebody get as more likely is the chance this user will be on top at the end.
  • The idea behind this initiative is to help writers who are not usually standing out in the spotlight and who don't get so much attention. Starting to blog here on Scorum can be challenging in the beginning and I would like to assist those who do have some trouble to get started and who could really be in need of some encouragement.

Some last words...

Initially I mentioned time passing like crazy, and I feel like that especially this week. November 9th marks one of the most important days in German history, pointing back to some dark but also to some very cheerful events and for myself it is most connected to the year 1989. On November 9th in that year the Berlin Wall finally came down and the East German government allowed their own citizens to go and visit the Western part of Berlin and their own country.

I was just a teenager but for me it was a radical change in my life. Born and raise in East Berlin I witnessed my own country disappearing and being merged (or taken over) by the nation of West Germany. Many things changed to the better, most important was the establishment of freedom rights and liberty. That was what most people in this peaceful revolution were fighting for.

Sure there was a down side as well, a rising unemployment lead to a growing discontent and not everywhere was the re-unification of the both Germany a big success. Were there are winners there are also losers, it is the same as in sports, but after the situation became better for most people. As for me it enabled me to travel this planet and to explore things impossible 30 years ago. At that time I could never imagine to became so international as I am right now. Of course, deep inside I am still that little boy from East Berlin, not able to imagine would all could be possible. I will always cherish my roots and feel deeply connected to the place where I come from.

Enough said, I am ready to receive your nominations! Don't be shy, just bring them on folks!

For questions or comments please hook me up in the comments as well. In addition you can find me in the Scorum Patronage channels which I am hosting on the I am Scorum discord channel.

I am hoping to reading from you soon!

Catch you later...

Love and Respect !