I'm a Steem Whale Looking for Writers

in #curation8 years ago

I have a lot of Steem voting power and can help good writers be rewarded for their work by adding them to my bot.

About Me

On the rich list I am @steemed, @itsascam, and @steemroller . I'm a steem whale because I mined early, wasted money on hashes before a relaunch, and mined again without knowing who was behind this project or what the goal was. I just poured resources into mining because it seemed like a coder was on the other end and I thought I might take a chance. I figured out how to mine without any real instructions, and, unlike the dozens or hundreds of junk coins I've mined, have been handsomely rewarded for my efforts.

How I Use My Bot

I run a curation bot and I think it is a good thing, even though others dislike the idea. I currently use my bot as a reading list curator not only for Steem, but for myself. At the end of each day I go back and review what it has voted for and read each article, mostly for enjoyment or information, but also to ensure that the bot is making good decisions. In other words, I tune my bot through its membership rather than trying to improve its voting logic, which in my opinion would be folly.

Until recently, my approach to membership has been to identify authors who have been rewarded previously and configure my bot to up-vote these authors on every post they make. In my opinion, this is a great system and will likely increase my voting power in the future. Right now, though, the authors currently in my bot can not be productive enough to optimize my voting power.

I Am Looking for New Authors

That's where I hope new authors come in. What I need to do is identify some good authors to add to my bot so that I am hitting the optimum voting frequency. By optimizing, I increase my own curation rewards, help to enrich talented authors, and improve Steem in the process. As you might see, this system is implicitly set up as a competition so that good, reasonably productive, authors stay in the bot. I plan to keep this practice up as the number of authors in my bot grows. I anticipate that the number of articles my bot votes for will eventually equal the number I can reasonably review in the same amount of time.

If you are a good author, please respond here and let me know to take a look at your work. If I find your articles interesting, substantive, and also think that your writing will appeal to others, I'll put you in. Beyond that, I expect that authors who get added to my bot will maintain their high standards.

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Hey, I wanted to say thanks for all you've done for me. I am glad you understand about being a slave to creativity. That's me. I'm a slave to new ideas, and have a terrible time keeping track of things, like working ideas, past ideas, etc. I appreciated the interview from @infovore and I wanted to give you my deepest thanks. I believe you have upvoted me a lot. You've helped me get out of poverty, actually.

How are you going with the 'keeping track of ideas' thing? Is it getting better?

no i still have the same issue.

Hi there,
Great post, I love the concept of Whales promoting quality content.
I don't write many posts, but when I do I do put a lot of effort in them.
https://steemit.com/@federicopistono

Some of the posts I wrote include:

This really resonates with something I wrote on "thoughts on the future of steemit":

If you want to make Steem the next big thing and not yet another failed project, post and upvote great content.
You get what you reward.
It's now a turning point for Steem.
Your choice will determine its future.
Choose wisely.

Hi @steemed, I appreciate what you are doing to help fellow authors. I am an economist blogging about entrepreneurship, side hustles, investing, budgeting, and life tips. Although I am fairly new to Steemit, my posts show the high standard of my work. I am bilingual in English and Spanish. So I am starting to translate my posts into Spanish to reach more people.

You should take a look at @steemship's insightful post on Steemit's Top 11 Posters. You probably follow a couple of the writers he recommends however there are others on there well worth your consideration. These include myself, @nanzo-scoop and @mummyimperfect (who I introduced to the Steemit).

Whilst some of my posts have been aimed at Steemit's existing demographic. I've also written pieces that (whilst they may not have caught on just yet) will be of interest to future Steemit users. In my view, catering for different niches will be important to the long term growth of Steemit.

I plan to introduce more quality writers to the platform (see e.g. @ak2020) once Steemit moves out of Beta and rewards materialise. It will be easier for me to convince people once they see Steem dollars in accounts, rather than the promise of Steem dollars on posts. So watch this space!

If you're still looking for writers, check me out @libertylol.

I try to write a couple times a day. I do longer researched posts about the concepts of Liberty, Free Markets, Limited Government, Individualism, Peace, Tolerance, Media Bias and Corruption. I also post shorter writing prompts in order to pique the interest of readers and determine what their thoughts are on different political philosophies. I try to ensure we all determine our own confirmation biases. Finally, I post about Liberty-based podcasts that make for great listening.

Let me know what you think!

Hey @steemed , if you like quality and high standards I think you might like this:
An Unstoppable Force And First Compelling Mass Market Solution.

Cheers, @xtester

Pick Me! Pick Me!

The last couple weeks I've been posting a lot of my original photos and curated posts, but I do really want to get back to focusing on writing more. I've done a few pieces which I can list here. It would really help me so much to get the boost from being on your list, I know that pretty much everybody would want to be on the list.... I provide good content for the platform, but people tend to overlook low payout content, no matter how hard you might work on it. It's quite disillusioning to see $6 on a piece you worked hard on.

I don't really want to beg for it, so I'll just leave these here. I would really appreciate your help, if you'll have me. It's amazing how with just a few lines of code you could seriously change my life, because I am putting in the work anyway, just need a patron!

Some of my work, I write mostly personal essays on various things, life and death, the Caribbean, growing up, struggles etc. I've done some article-style posts as well.

(this was two months ago when it was mostly whales around and this was very successful in comparison to the others) https://steemit.com/writing/@jamtaylor/caribbean-child-a-biographical-snapshot

https://steemit.com/spirituality/@jamtaylor/beyond-bitterness-7-things-i-still-appreciate-from-my-journey-through-christianity

https://steemit.com/steemit/@jamtaylor/what-i-want-to-get-out-of-steemit

https://steemit.com/life/@jamtaylor/the-grandfathers-david-of-st-matthias

https://steemit.com/life/@jamtaylor/thoughts-on-death-and-time-travel

Thanks for reading, either way!

Are you still looking for writers? I'd love to be one of your new writers. And if I don't make the cut, I'd love to have some constructive feedback. :D

I would be honored if you would consider me for inclusion in your bots. I am planning to become more prolific in the coming months.

@steemed
maybe i'm not the good author you need, but I write about (ita-eng lang)

  • my hobby, aquariology in particular
  • design
  • mining guide
  • physical btc collection
  • general info

in future, I want promoting italian section-post with rewards and tips

Hey @steemed you commented on one of my posts earlier and just letting you know that I posted one of my travel stories today, I think you'll enjoy it, check it out and let me know!

Heidi --- are all those followers (about 5k) because of a big push from @steemed ?

I never experienced a "big push" of new followers, just have steadily grown over the past year and two months.

I have been writing my life story over the last few days, I would love it if you checked them out: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Not sure if this is still active or if the offer still stands. But I've been slowly and sure transitioning my adventures over to SteemIt. You can see them here.
https://steemit.com/@msutyler
Will be continuously updating the SteemIt community with my travels.

Naturally I would like to be on your list. I'm a prolific writer and published a book titled, Un-Crap Your Life last year as well. I'm just getting started and joined this site just 10 hours ago but I'm very excited by the possibilities. Check out my stories and let me know what you think.
Also your bot sounds interesting. Are you planning on sharing info about it?

Very interesting writing indeed

The bot, the bot. Tell us how to make a bot.

I think what you have posted is good, but I can't tell if it is original or not. I'm looking for authors to provide original content to Steem.

I'm original now. You would be wise to upvote me.

I would gladly be on your list!
I don't intend to write often - maybe once or twice a week, but I tend to put an effort into it and come up with original content. My posts have generated a moderate 100$ - 200$, and I don't intend to post links, videos or images. I have tried them a few times but that was enough. My goal is to increase the quality of my posts, and likely it will result in a little less quantity.

Very friendly gesture from you, by the way!

I really enjoy your writing and I cant wait for that "follow" button to appear. :-)

If you post only solid content like this and this under @markopaasila, I'd add you to my bot. But you also post less substantive content under your account as well. There's nothing wrong with the latter, but it means I'd burn voting power on some posts.

Would you mind making a different account to post your miner reflections and questions, so that I may optimize my voting? I understand if not, but I wouldn't be able to add you unless you did that.

Sure, I'll do that. Under this account I'll post only the best I have, and I'll make another one for random stuff. One question: your bot doesn't vote on comments, does it?

I'll throw my hat into the ring for consideration.

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Thanks for the opportunity!

I've said quite a lot that the current Steemit system doesn't incentivise good unique content enough (it falls off the page quickly), nor does it incentivise reputation building (poor follow/notification system).

Hopefully those issues are addressed as the paradigm is tweaked and refined over time. Outside of that, I'm delighted to see new initiatives such as this to encourage a higher standard all round!

While I'm capable of high quality material, I've so far mixed my posts between strong articles, personal photographic work, and some lower quality anecdotes and discussion. If the incentive was there though, I would cut out the lower quality stuff and focus my efforts exclusively on strong writing.

Here are two posts I made extra effort with:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@condra/who-are-you-in-the-steemit-economy
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@condra/hello-introducing-my-life-in-embarrassing-photos

I hope you will consider adding me, and please let me know if there's anything you would like to discuss.

Either way, thanks for this initiative. It's good for Steemit.

Please check out my work if you get some time. I am a #glassblower with 5 years experience and crypto-hobbyist. Below is an intro/giveaway I did that ended up working out :) The first link has a lot of info you may find interesting about me and my trade. I hope you like my profle, it will constantly be filling with new glass!

Next giveaway I do I hope for it to be big enough that I can mail an item to every person that comments for 24hours, and mail an extra special gift if they sign a verified friend up to steemit.

https://steemit.com/marijuana/@cryptocameo/hello-world-i-am-cam-the-glassblower-and-entrepreneur-let-s-get-started-by-giving-a-few-things-away
https://steemit.com/marijuana/@cryptocameo/verification-for-the-glass-pipe-giveaway-let-s-give-some-glass-back-to-the-community
https://steemit.com/marijuana/@cryptocameo/steemit-glass-giveaway-winners-steem-one-up-for-me

Check out my biggest inspiration and one of the master artisans of the borosilicate glass industry. Im a super newb in comparison lol
https://steemit.com/money/@cryptocameo/masters-of-the-craft-part-1

Hope you enjoy my content and have a great week! ✌

I don't think you've ever up voted one of my posts and if the content I've publish is not for you, no worries ;)) ....but obviously I'd love to have your interest! So feel free to check out benjojo. I'm putting together some ideas for post series and I'd be overwhelmed with joy if you found the time to read the horror script I wrote!

Great stuff. In you go.

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Hi @steemed!
Just discovered this post, and if you're still looking for writers, I'd love if you would take a moment to read some of my work. I say a moment, but I can get long-winded sometimes :-) My posts so far have covered a variety of topics, including: how I feed people around the country for free, attending events like the Jackalope Freedom Festival, meeting & befriending heroes of mine like Alais Clay & Adam Kokesh, and delicious, healthy vegan recipes.

I am readying for launch a solutions-oriented crowd-sourced literature project, which will bring together the most talented writers I can find, on Steemit and out in the physical, to create stories that inspire & empower.

Thanks for your time, and thanks for helping make Steemit great!

@steemed, It would be an honor to join your writers team. I give a unique perspective on music, life and family.

I am learning HTML so each post looks stylish with intriguing content.

I love to help new steemians improve the layouts of their posts. A lot of people have brilliant ideas but it comes out like a mess in their blogs!

Hello @steemed,

If you wish, I invite you to take a look at my posts, I tend to write 2 or 3 times a week and I would say most of my content is concentrated in Crypto subjects but I also write about sports, politics and maybe a funny gif from time to time. In average my posts get around 10-20 votes, but I have a couple that have gotten more than 30.

I try to put all my good posts on this account "chitty" and I have another account for shit posting and stuff I find less relevant. This is also why this account has the most steem power and in theory it will get around 2k SMD and equal value of steem power after the 4th.

Hi @steemed
I started a project with friends. We're going to travel around Europe with the money received from Steemit, and do photo reports about our trip. Also in the plans for the popularization of Steemit, as well as meetings with the Steemit community in the countries that we visit. The first post was about St. Petersburg. But he did not seen none of the whales, although we collected a lot of votes. We spent a week on this project and it was a shame not to get the result.
If you add us to your list, we will be happy to continue the project.
Here is a link to our article.
https://steemit.com/travel/@kell234/steemit-eurotrip-part-1-st-petersburg-three-friends-travel-to-europe-together-with-steemit
We will publish our articles once in every 2-3 days. The next article will be about Moscow, then we're going to visit Finland, and then to go further into the EU.
If you decide to help us with upvote, then the answer to this post or vote for our article on St. Petersburg.
Thank you for attention.

@steemed , I hope you still read the comments on this post as it is fairly old. Not sure how to get hold of you. I read your interview today in Steemmag. First of all congratulations on the vision of mining steem in the early days. I am glad it paid off for you. I am a business man myself and risk and reward is what it is all about. My question is how does one get on your author list? I am still fairly new to Steemit and only made a round 10 posts. I am a colleague of @gavvet, who is on your author list. He is a great guy and I always read his posts, but more importantly he is really assisting to build the community. He recently started promoting authors and I was lucky enough that some of the posts that he posted on my behalf made a few dollars. Can I please ask that you read some of my posts and if you believe there is potential to add me to your author list?

Hi! This post was made 2 months ago and I don't know if you are still looking for authors. But I would like to take my chances anyways!

I have been creating posts with original content since I joined Steemit over 10 days ago. And although I know that 10 days is a very small time period, I think that my content is good and it should get some traction. I am soon going to start my original fiction series and I could really use some eyes!

So, check my stuff out and if you like it, I would be thrilled to be included. Cheers! :)

Hi @steemed , I'm @littlekitty!

Little Kitty
I'm a very (cute) small cat with one blue eye! I write posts about life, philosophy, politics, and tutorials.
Mommy helps me write my blog and post to Steemit, she takes high quality pictures of me (and she makes gifs!). We've been learning about generating OC, practicing our writing, and the steemit ecosystem. We also made a list of ideas for posts and are working on generating content for consistent posts. Here's what I have so far! I appreciate the look! Meow and thanks!

-Little Kitty

What can I say? I'm a sucker for a cat-story.

have a look at my stuff :) i didnt post here alot but im a blogger

I'm looking more for article format.

Hi, @steemed!
I am a talented and ambitious.I live in Russia and I know English and French very well.
My introduce
https://steemit.com/steemit/@zinkaepta19/introducing-me-hi-steemit-my-name-is-sasha-i-m-a-dancer
and a small article about my work....
https://steemit.com/summer/@zinkaepta19/camp-for-children-is-the-best-way-to-you-to-spend-your-summer
I hope youll find time reading my short original article !

Interested in this . Feel free to have a look over at my content to see if it suits your tastes.


Hey @steemed,
I've written a few posts that I feel deserve a lot more credit than they have recieved, But hey ho. I would very much apreciate If you could check my content. Here's a few links to some below;

https://steemit.com/new/@endaksi1/beatbox-harmonica-video-made-specially-for-steemit-what-i-plan-on-bringing-to-the-community

https://steemit.com/steemit/@endaksi1/i-think-we-need-some-space-my-love-letter-to-steemit

https://steemit.com/steeminglikeihad8arms/@endaksi1/creating-a-unique-password

I'm also currently working on 2 series', one of which will be about music and the music industry, which will be called 'For the love of Music', The other I intend on being a philisophical series, to Which I discuss modern day society and life itself.

I am a productive writer. I joined in May 2018 and I have written 186 posts and 1869 comments. If you are still looking for productive writers please contact me or check out my blog.

Thanks

https://steemit.com/steemit/@shortsegments/most-valuable-tools-in-steemit-2nd-nominee-built-in-steemit-wallet-security-features

https://steemit.com/steemit/@shortsegments/most-valuble-tools-for-steemit-5th-nominee-steemworld

Please check out my work @steemed it would mean the world to me.
I am a women working in the fashion industry, this is my passion and I am living the dream as a young model.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@ricegum/explore-the-fashion-world-with-a-steemit-girl

Hello @steemed
Would you like to check out this post I made recently, I have a lot of good feedback. And I do think that there is a lot of potential. Thanks in advance
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@milk/hi-steemians-this-is-how-i-overcame-my-3-years-addiction

Tipping is something that I'd like to see whales doing.

We don't have yet Steem dollars, but when we do, I'll probably start to tip good writers every now and then. We really should have a tipping button when dollars start to flow into system!

I might even give some Steem Power for new users who are exceptionally good writers but can't afford to buy it themselves. It's good way to incentivize them to use Steem more often.

Tipping feature would be nice, but if someone has a whale-sized stake, then an upvote is a pretty good tip.

Greetings @steemed. I am @bennyjay.
I recently joined steemit - about a month ago.
Came across your post just now. I don't know if the opportunity is still available but if it is kindly check out my blog @bennyjay and my write ups on @airhawk-project. I look forward to receiving a feedback from you. Thank you

Just started writing in Steemit. If you like my content add me to your list.

My first posts are up - two worth 100's? Anyway - thanks for the offer to authors - I have 14 E-Books on Amazon and have blogged 1000's of quality posts in the past 7 years.

I ran across this post recently after following the rabbit hole through your recent Steem Power and Governance (which I found fascinating and look forward to the next parts.)

Having been a little irked lately about curation bots not looking at content, I really appreciate seeing posts like this, at least giving me an idea of how the human is staying in the loop.

With that said, I see the structure of steemit, the possible economic and social possibilities than are geared towards enhancing personal responsibility and freedoms. I try to focus on mental awareness's and questioning that people need to effectively move from being told what to do, to what they want to do. The goal isn't for them to agree with my answers, but rather just to be asking the questions.

I know this thread is a couple months old now, so no worries if it's too late or buried. I still applaud this post and having some better idea of how you approach curation.

you can count on me as a publisher content

Hi @steemed,
I'm interested. Thanks for checking me out. :)

Phew, a whooping 102 comments already, and the post is 2 months old. Damn, looks like I'm late.

However, in case you're still monitoring the comments, I'd love to keep composing high quality articles for this awesome community. If you look at my profiles you will find a few articles that I already wrote, and there are more coming over the next weeks. I don't have written that much yet, since I am rather new on here. However, I always try to put my greatest effort in my writing.

Thanks for the opportunity!

Hey Steemed I made my first article today. More articles are coming. I'll be writing about different topics. Mostly about money and life.

Please check my last post. Thank you :)

https://steemit.com/steemit/@rules169/why-you-should-be-careful-with-storing-batteries-and-buying-used-iphones

Hi Steemed,

Another a pro writer here tossing a cap into your writer-search ring.

Here's a link to my first Steemit post:
https://steemit.com/ethics/@andrea-annie/the-man-with-the-bleeding-neck

I have lots of samples online, too.

Would be very grateful for your esteem,
Annie

Hello @steemed, @itsascam and/or @steemroller :D
I've recently joined steemit, about 2 weeks ago and I've just now recently started to get some attention from other "whales". Hopefully it will continue the same way further on too. If you're up for it, take a look. If not. No worries :)

Cheers!

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