Introduction

Our community keeps on growing big thanks to the admin, City Coordinators and our loyal members all working together to take us to the next level. We have launched several projects and activities designed to help us achieve more and sustain the progress we have made over time. However, we always take a step back and look at how our projects are doing. We make changes to ones that some adjustment and end ones that are struggling with results. That has helped the community a lot.

One of the projects we want to make some adjustment on, is how we have been supporting member posts in our community.

Our Old Support Scheme

We have at least 2 ways we have been supporting our community members: They are as follows:

• Community Trail: We vote member posts with our curation trail she now has more followers than any other community trail. Our trail currently have 277 followers and votes with $3.4 - $4.2 at 100 percent weight.

• Booming votes: We have the booming support which gives us 3 votes to community posts per day.

For the above two ways of support, we arranged our members in city groups and vote each city in turns. When we have finished the cities, we repeat the cycle again and again. In this way, we attempt to vote everyone in a way we thought was fair. But, we have identified a weakness in this system and are ready to work on it.

The Problem

The old system of voting in city turns have been working well. But we have identified a weakness which we wish to correct. We discovered that some city members simply wait for their turns, quickly make a post and simply go back to their shell. So the system created a group of members that just come around when food is ready. Because getting the support does not require much other than waiting for the city turn, they Simply switch off after being supported and wait for the next turn. On the other hand, there are members that are really working hard and supporting community projects who should ordinarily get bigger support. For example, some members hosts weekly contests with their Steem to help the community grow. Since they must wait for the city turns, they get the same support as those that are not doing anything to contribute to community growth.

In summary, the current support structure seems to be giving equal support to everyone regardless of their input in the community. That is a challenge we wish to correct now

The Solution

A fair Support structure should ensure that members that are actively supporting the community in different ways should receive bigger support than members that are doing little or nothing. In order to do this effectively, we saw that it would be wise to change our model. Instead of voting based on city turns, we vote based on level of member activity in the community. Naturally, hard work should be repaid adequately. So those that are obviously and actively involved in community activities and project would be given priority.

So from the above, we wish to let all members know that we have discontinued the Voting in city turns. We will now submit member posts or support them with votes based on Their activity level or how active they are. So we need to define what members need to be doing in order to be seen as active members.

SteemAlive Verified and Active Members - the requirements

In order to continue receiving support from the community, members need to be both Verified and Active.

How to be a Verified Member

The first step is to be a verified member. The verification which we started not too long again helps our members to produced quality content in the community. It also helps us to identify who they are. So if you wish to be verified and get the community label, follow the link below:

SteemAlive Presents: Our Brand New Verification System for all Members!

How to be an Active Member

We are not going to require much from our members. The requirements are already what most members are doing. But we want everyone to operate on the same level. Here is how to be an active member:

• Engagement: This is very important. Members that comment meaningfully on SteemAlive posts would be noticed. Engagement also involves commenting on other member posts.
• Posts: active members must make at least 2 posts each week in the community.
• Community Projects: We have many community projects such as LID reporting. More are coming. Its not compulsory to participate in our projects, but those that do so would be shown more support.
• Telegram Groups: We have 3 Telegram groups, including our classroom. An active member needs to be seen within the week in our groups engaging with others. For example our Telegram classroom.
• Contests: Members that participate in our contests are seen as active members.

More on Contests

• Contests by the Community: When we do our contests, all participants posts must be voted with the community trail. If there are many participants, the top 10 would get the trail votes.
• Members hosting Contests: When our members hosts contests, we will support them by submitting the post to booming.

Conclusion

We really thank all our members and leaders for the support they have given us. Our aim in introducing this system is to be able to support everyone in a fair manner. Lets see how far this change will improve our community and take us to a higher level.

Thank you!!!

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