OCDB goes manual
@ocdb's mission has always been to support great content creators on Steem and we have pursued this mission through the bear market even as our task was made more difficult by users flocking to bid bots to maximize ROI. To continue supporting great content creators, we responded by creating a non-profit, high-return bidbot with a whitelist of proven creators. But we're excited to announce a major change in how OCD operates as a result of #newsteem.
TL;DR
- #newsteem is here and it's working
- In response to the early results of #newsteem we are switching back to manual curators!
- We are once again rewarding non-whitelisted users including users on sites like Reddit and Twitter
- We are implementing a for-profit model
- Profits from fees will be reinvested into Steem to grow the user base
- Curators will use profits to tip STEEM on Reddit and Twitter
- We will remain one of the most profitable curation projects for delegators
If you haven't noticed, #newsteem is here.
Thanks to the EIP, abusive behavior is now being dealt with. Active stake and eyeballs are again returning to the Steem ecosystem on the hunt for quality content. One consequence of this is that we can return to our original mission to actively search for and reward as many deserving users as we can. Yep, OCDB is going manual and this is why:
- Manual curators enhance Proof-of-Brain
- Accelerate the changes in behavior that the EIP encourages
- Improve manual curation or delegating to curation initiatives
- Reward valuable content creators
Because @ocdb offered the best returns for delegators and provided the most profitable votes to whitelisted users, we believe it could have survived any market. But one of the things that makes @ocdb special is that we have always put the long-term success of the platform, and userbase over profits and return-on-investment.
Whitelist Applicants
If you have applied to the whitelist, don't worry, we will be manually curating active whitelisted users without requiring bids. We believe this will increase the incentives for producing quality content because curation will be judged by manual curators looking to reward those who deserve it.
Non-Whitelisted Users
Now, whitelisted members will not be the only accounts eligible for our curation. We will also support the selections of other large curation projects. We will also be curating onboarded content creators. This has already begun through @OCD, but we will turbocharge this effort with some updates to that project and extra voting power.
With these changes, we will switch from a nonprofit model to a 10% fee that covers curators, and a 5% fee which will go into a pool used to approach and onboard content creators.
Our Focus: Growing the ecosystem
The 5% will go into a pool that will mainly be used to fund tipping. We are inviting Steem users to onboard content creators from different platforms. Onboarders will look for a good piece of content on Reddit or Twitter, comment and leave a Steem tip. We will be using Steemtipper created by @crimsonclad and @followbtcnews (Steem witness) once it's back up.
We will track their activity and they can join our discord and community to receive further curation and guidance on their Steem journey. We have seen good results and received positive feedback in our early trials. We believe this approach will help scale Steem's user base and onboard influencers from other platforms.
Communities & SMTs
This new approach will support the next phase of Steem's evolution with Communities and SMT integration. These changes are designed to empower the user base. We will still be one of the most profitable curation projects for delegators. But we hope that it is what we will actually do with the delegations to improve the health of the ecosystem and the value of Steem, that will keep you interested in continuing with us.
With #newsteem, we are finally heading toward a future with more human interaction and an ecosystem that is attractive to both existing users, and all of those to come.
Music to my ears @ocd
I know you said you would always prefer OCDB to be a manual curation entity rather than a bought vote @acidyo, but I remember you saying a few weeks ago that the time wasn't right.
Absolutely, and I witnessed that in how it was run and regulated. I'm glad to hear the time is right now with how well HF21/22 seems to have gone... even this cynical steemian is ready to throw his hands up and say 'it all seems to be working' 🙂
P.s. just wondering. Do whitelisted authors still need to use the #ocd-resteem tag on their posts? I've recently made a decision to stop worrying about posting daily and focus on high quality instead. Lol, so I think I'm a much better fit for curation these days.
The power of #newsteem, driving beneficial behaviour that incentivizes a focus on value adding rather than extraction. I'm pretty optimistic about steem at the moment, which is nice because it's been a while since I've felt that way.
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The tag was never a requirement, we started it a long time ago to add a few extra resteems next to the daily comps but was discontinued after a break and people just kept using it. :shrug: :D
We may revive it with your idea in mind though some time in the future. :)
Cheers for the info acidyo. I won't worry about the tag unless I see an article saying different.
P.s. I know curation from any of the guilds is an occasional blessing rather than a regular thing.
I'm just glad that there are more people out there looking now, and not just from my perspective with the content I make. From a much wider perspective, one of the first things I figured about steem when I arrived was that outside of the circle jerks etc, the real driving force behind helping reward fairly were the curation guilds. This knowledge created a positive impetus to improve and develop, and once I realised that many curators take engagement into account, it encouraged me to get involved in discord communities and projects.
This story is a common one for most new steemians who actually have some talent in content creation. I see curation guilds as the vital conduit between stake that wants to be passive and the community. Well, it's the healthy way for passive stake to build the network value and hopefully the price of steem.
Anyway, I'll shut up now 🤣 I'm just genuinely enthusiastic to see this news. Great stuff!
muy buen post jajaja, me gustaria vean mi blog y espero les guste mi contenido (apoyemonos)
Me too lol
I've been trying to get back here all day to say something, but I don't have much to say other than thanks for doing this.
Nice!
I really liked Steemtipper and wondered why it wasn't being used more. Good luck PoBs :D
Somehow* I had completely missed it going live. :(
Can you get the word out when it is back up? I think it appeared during the down-cycle and think tipping Tweeters could be huge.
Will promote it and burn the rewards. ;)
I'll be honest as a whitelisted author I was using the service for a while, but at some point it almost felt dirty being able to purchase a large vote. So I stopped and decided to let my small rewards be what they were and just keep plugging away.
Honestly this entire idea is amazing! It will be even more amazing if it can help the path towards real communities being born. Ones that are truly about a niche and about bringing in people from outside of the Steem community.
I'm looking into development of a niche community that doesn't require the current Steem user base to succeed. Goal will be to bring in people who are involved in the niche and introduce them to crypto as a bonus, but having a site worthy of their time even without the earnings. By creating what will be a stand alone site that integrates SMTs we will be attempting to create the true vision of what Steem can become IMO. Already have a couple non Steem people ready to join me and I'm barely in the planning stages. Helps that it's a niche that I'm deep into and have a good amount of contacts. Getting a little excited about the potential of everything.
Looking forward to this and hoping that once it gets going, all of the curation projects become a force once again that hunt down, lift up and promote content and authors who add value to Steem. =)
I've got to admit, #newsteem seems to be working as envisioned 😁
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Well, I did say...
👍😂 you were right
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It's this new trend called hmm, can't recall how it is called... I think I've heard it quite a lot.
Oh right, it's this new thing people refer to as #NewSteem. Seems like the biggest deal on the block (pun intended) and everybody is on board!
I am glad that we have finally got to this point and, now we have a lot further to go
Hey Eric, how can I apply for being whitelisted with @ocd please? I sometimes host contests that I would like to promote a bit so that more people know about them and can participate. Thanks and sorry if I have overlooked that info somewhere.
Yeah, let's power up PoB!
Great news! I have been whitelisted for a little bit now and used @ocdb a couple times but the whole bid bot controversy made me nervous.
I even got some down votes one time when you all manually curated one of my posts because someone was down voting anything you all upvoted as part of their anti bid bot campaign. In this case I chatted with the person and they removed their downvote.
But moments like that made me nervous about using @ocdb for my posts.
So I'm very happy you all are switching to manual curators and I hope my posts will get an occasional upvote from you all! :)
This is really good news @ocd! I guess NewSteem is really working and manual curation is increasing more and more! I hang around crypto reddit and crypto twitter and Steem seems to get a bad vibe mainly because of Dan (makes no sense since this is an open, decentralized permissionles project), hope you guys have more luck than I do when trying to get more members to Steem... People only care about Steem when the price is sky high I guess....
I've never been whitelisted by you guys, if you guys do have the time and are accepting new application I would love to know if my content is good enough to be whitelisted :)
How does OCD defines "great" ?
There are some objective factors like spelling, time spent creating the content, quality of the pictures/text/video, knowledge and expertise on the topic etc and other subjective stuff like opinion of the curator, preferences, expertise on the topic by the curator (for example I can't asses if a painting is good, but we have curators that do) and some others.
The good thing is that we have many curators focusing in finding great content for over two years now so we hope to deliver on the community's expectations.
You can add "verifiable sources" to back the statements made in a post, especially if it contains any scientific topic.
Also if there are lots of comments and real discussions in a post, that's an indicator of interesting content.
Original content, subjective quality by many curators with a lot of experience.
Experience in what? Running a social media business? Genuinely asking
Experience with curating content. That includes:
I have seen many curators vote for authors that turn out to be just stealing identity from a content creator form other platforms... and they are not easy to detect cos they are good at pretending. A good/experienced curator is more likely to detect these shady acts even by just scrolling through an author's blog.
Bring on the manual curation 💪
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Definitely! It's a task for everyone, not just the curation projects!
I agree! It's why I bought a few thousand steem these last few weeks to continue curating like a part time madman! While the going's cheap, it's a great time to load up!
I was already pretty engaged on the platform but now there's more rewards to gain from curation and takes the pressure off a bit of having to post every day to get author rewards 😀
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How delightful to read this ... I was considering doing @ocdb as a bot, but I am delighted with the manual curation that is now here under #newsteem! So, how do we draw @ocd's attention to our best content -- on Discord? Use of particular tags?