Steem Representative Weekly Report #40th from [29th Jan-5th Feb, 2025]

Steem greetings @everyone and welcome to my blog as I present my 40th report as the Steem Representative. It is yet another week for me to report on my activities on the platform for the week of 29th January -5th February 2025.

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It was another week of work with heads high while trying to scale a balance between offline commitments and business as usual on Steemit. This still was not without some challenges with frequent unannounced blackouts as usual and low voltage which caused my internet connection tobe unstable.

That said, below I will share my different activities carried out across the platform within the above-stated period.

Community Curator for January

It was my last week of active activities as community curator for January. We worked together as a team to ensure we reached out to as many users as possible. I searched for good articles both within communities and on personal blogs.

I was in charge of preparing a Google sheet for each of us to input data to be used for our weekly reports. I participated in selecting the best-nominated posts of the week for the report.

For this week, I had 01 day of performing my duties as a curator. I supported 26 articles from different authors across the platform from different countries. I equally supported comments that added value to the content.

It was an easy ride without any major challenge searching across blogs and communities to support genuine authors.

Steemit Promotion.

It is a major challenge for me to sign up new users on the platform. With the present economic hardship in my country, it is difficult to get passionate bloggers without having a “… get rich quick” mindset. However, I continued preaching the steemit gospel to those who showed interest in giving me a listening ear. I had a face-to-face discussion with 03 persons but none showed interest in creating an account.

My WhatsApp is another means I used to promote Steemit via my WhatsApp status. I have over 250 contacts and I used it to promote Steemit to my contacts. Hopefully, one day someone will find interest in joining the platform. I do not want to pressure someone to join and create dormant accounts.

Activities in Steem Cameroon Community.

It is a routine that every week we meet online and discuss how to better manage the community. We discussed about looking for investors who can buy steem and powered up the community account.

I continued with a follow-up chat with @nforyembe, @peacemakers, @muluhpenn and @tjean to adhere to the promises they made last meeting with them to be back active. They keep promising to be back active but I’m still to see that happen.

As a plagiarism leader and actively fighting all forms of abuse in the community, I had to ensure that content creators create quality content free from any form of abuse in the community. For this week, 01 user was cautioned on using copyrighted images and also using images without properly sourcing them. We hope steemians continues to be creative in ideas and create plagiarized free content and proper use of non-copyrighted images.

I also caution steemians especially newcomers about clicking on phishing links and operating 3rd party DApps. This is because they risk losing their Steemit accounts to hackers. I also informed them about “account recovery” within 30 days if not they stand to lose the account to hackers.

I assisted 06 users via Discord to apply simple markdown on their articles and also advised them to take on the achievement program in the newcomer's community to better familiarise themselves with the use of a simple markdown style. I also advised them to use Grammarly to correct their language and proofread before posting.

I mentored 04 newcomers via WhatsApp on how to go about with the achievement program in the newcomer's community before they are verified and certified.

I also cautioned 01 user on the wrong use of tags and how to write a proper diary game.

Content Creation.

It was a busy week with other offline commitments but I had to stay active and created 05 articles including my weekly report.

I equally engaged with other Steemit users by commenting and giving feedback.

I equally did power up some liquid Steem to increase my Steem power to support other creative authors on the platform. Through my power up, I was able to achieve another milestone with 55k SP.

Support Other Content Creators with @chant Account.

It was another opportunity for me to use my effective Steem power of over 62k to support steemians with quality content on the platform.

Preference was given to authors writing creative and quality articles across the platform. Over the week, I reached out to 115 accounts and upvoted 142 posts with a CSI score of 18.9.

At this juncture, I have come to the end of my presentation of my weekly activities report.

Regards!