Wow, it is now February and to me it seems the first month of the year just passed by in a wink of a moment. And just counting the weeks it tells me we are already entering the 5th round in 2019. Didn't we just pass New Year a couple of days ago?

But since we are all here now I am taking the chance to invite all of you to join this nomination round and to suggest me some of your favorite writers, who in your eyes don't get enough attention from the Scorum community. As usual I am giving you time until Sunday when I will chose the person who got the most nominations and declare him to our "choice of the week".

After that it is going to be my job to visit chosen writers profile for a whole week to check out and support his or her articles with my upvotes.

And since I want all of you to join, I will again give a full upvote to the comment who nominates this round's winner first. I addition I will also through 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. I hope this will finally lure more you into joining the nomination round.

The idea behind Scorum Patronage is as usual, bringing some attention to some newer writers or to some Scorum blogs who aren't so successful yet. Through my assistance I want to motivate everybody to continue contributing interesting blog posts. I also hope that just by being nominated the one or the other already feels encouraged to write more wonderful articles about the fascinating world of sport and not to give up in the beginning.

This week I am assisting @ivanov, one very new Scorum member, whose profile I am now checking out on a daily basis but so far he hasn't posted anything new this week. I hope there is still something coming until his turn ends on Sunday.

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

https://scorum.com/en-us/scorum/@sport-frei/scorum-patronage-week-4-the-community-has-spoken

Nominations for WEEK 5:

Let's start the fifth 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 with 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.

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 50% 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.

After the end of the Patronage Week, I would like to introduce the respective blogger to the community in a separate article and report about his or her work.

A couple of days ago I introduced last week's beneficiary @traillevi:

https://scorum.com/en-us/scorum/@sport-frei/scorum-patronage-introduces-traillevi

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 vote for 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.

Some final words:

I am glad the last two weeks things seem to have calmed down here on Scorum, and most of us are keeping care of what we can do best. Writing informative articles about the world of sports and sport betting. Of course there will be time when Scorum members will not be able to agree with others, that's how it is in every family around the world.

However, let's us not get into name calling and attacking each other. Rather let's find a way to community about all dissonances and find a way to solve our problems in a fair way. We are all sailing on the same boat and eventually aiming for the same point beyong the horizon. I order top reach our goal it would be much more efficient if we could all work together, instead of throwing hurdles in front of others.

Of course there will be different fractions here on Scorum, who see things in a different light. But nobody should be interested in seeing some escalation of any personal rivalries, sometimes it would be much smarter if we all could just mind our own business. That's also directed towards my self, it is hard to be immune to some certain thoughts though.

But actions speak louder than words, that's why I am here week by week, inviting all of you to come together to choose one of our Scorum members as the lucky one, who can get a week free of my support. I recently powered up a little more, some my votes are already having some decent value which could lift up an articles right into the hot section. And from there it might just be a minor step before the rest of community steps in to boost that articles up to the sky. Since that happened before, I think I am on the right path with my little initiative.

And for sure there will always be something that could be improved. And that's where I need you again, because I want to here your comments and suggestions. And I am also open for any constructive criticism. Just open your heart and let me know in the comments or in the Scorum Patronage channels which I'm running on the I am Scorum Discord server. That is also the place were you can find recent announcements and nominations and were you will have a chance to discuss any other problems. And of course it will be also just the right place to have a nice chat.

I am looking forward to hearing from all of you soon, and to checking out some of the writers you are going to nominate.

Love and Respect !