Here's Part 2 of the long-awaited update about the great posts being curated on the @foraging-trail. This report lists all the posts made since the last post in Part 1. These posts are still within their 30-day active commenting period. So you can contact the authors directly in their posts, to leave a word of encouragement or ask a question.
Introduction
The Foraging-Trail is a SteemTrail project to grow an engaged community of people within Steemit, who are interested in foraging for food and crafts. That means making posts and comments where we all can learn, share our thoughts about foraging, and show our field trips, harvests, and what we do with nature’s wild bounty.
The long-term goal is that people will join Steemit to be part of specific communities – like Foraging - because they are so active, engaging, and supportive. Focused Steemit communities will provide more structure for getting new people connected easily, without drifting away in confusion or frustration.
27 Great Steemit Foraging Posts
It was an embarrassingly long 2 months since the third report on the SteemTrail Foraging Trail. Blame the curator, @haphazard-hstead! We got halfway caught up in Part 1 and this Part 2 post brings us all up-to-date. The authors here in Part 2 have done a great job, presenting their own images, experiences, insights, and perspectives. That makes this Steemit content unique and valuable!
The Foraging Trail tries to discover new authors posting original foraging content and to support the community's regular authors, too. Right now, @haphazard-hstead is the only curator. If you are interested in helping out, join the steemtrail chat channel!
This is the 5th published list of curated foraging posts. Some great things to note about this list of posts. There are 27 posts from 15 different people, with 6 authors new to the @foraging-trail, and 9 repeat authors.
There is incredible value in these 27 posts! If you haven’t seen them yet, I urge you to read and upvote them – they are all still within their 30-day earnings period. And I encourage you to leave some comments. That’s how we learn and get to know each other.
These 27 foraging posts generated $301.43 in total payouts to authors and curators, for an average payout of $11.16 per post. With all the bots and vote trails, reporting on the upvotes generated by these posts doesn't have much meaning anymore. Instead, because the @foraging-trail is about building a Steemit community, it's better to look at metrics for community interaction.
What about community interaction? These posts had 423 comments, or almost 16 comments/post on average. How does 16 comments/post compare to what you are creating or reading? Half of the posts on Steemit get no more than 1 comment, according to the Steempunks Dashboard run by @ontofractal. It's great to see all the discussion on foraging posts!
Congratulations to all the authors! Thank you, everyone, for your upvotes and support of these posts. Please consider following the many authors whose work is featured here. If you follow the @foraging-trail, too, you can see the curation in real time. Then you can easily upvote the curated posts to support our Steemit foraging writers. And you won’t miss some great foraging posts! Don’t forget to comment and upvote comments as well – it really shows appreciation of each other within our community.
Foraging-Trail Curated Posts
What's Next
With spring coming in the Northern Hemisphere, foraging in the real world will be picking up quickly! Let's see some of that momentum in Steemit foraging posts, too! Let's make Steemit the premier foraging community on the Internet. How can you help?
- Start writing about foraging topics and post them with the Foraging tag! You can find out more about the Steemit Foraging community and guidelines for being upvoted by the @foraging-trail here and here.
- Support the creators making posts with the Foraging tag by upvoting and/or commenting.
- Volunteer with SteemTrail to help curate posts about Foraging. If you want to help, join the Foraging-Trail on Discord
- Stay tuned for updates. If you follow @foraging-trail here on Steemit, you’ll see them.
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Thanks, everyone who has written or commented on posts in on the @foraging-trail. I've enjoyed reading all the foraging posts on the trail! Happy foraging!
Great stuff @haphazard-hstead - I have a format question (might be I am just too stupid for markdown but still....) as I want to give an update on some other trails too on @steemtrail - anytime I try to create such tables it is not working at all, you do them in markdown right?
Yes, I do them in Markdown. Here's my table layout (note: the ~ don't mean anything, they let me show the markdown). The second line is the layout: the dashes, spaces, and colon in the second line are all centering or right/left justification. For the post title, I am doing the usual thing, where I put the title in between the [] brackets, right next to the URL of the post in (). Hope that helps. I'd sure like to know how to drop a little thumbnail in there, too, but I haven't figured that out yet.
~| Author | Post | Payout | Comments |
| --- | --- | ---: | :--- |
| @haphazard-hstead | Paleo Winter Weed Salad with quiz | $2.45 | 47 |~
Thanks so much - I have another question, the posts you curated are these all post from the trail or only the ones that have been #channel-approved in the end @haphazard-hstead ?
These are all the posts that I have curated to the @foraging-trail. So they are all "channel approved". I like these lists because it's a quick reference to all the posts on the @foraging-trail.
But they are not all approved by the upper level SteemTrail. A different set of people that make that determination, based on different goals and criteria. They are trying to highlight the highest quality posts and consider all the trails. Maybe in future updates, I should check each post on the @foraging-trail and note which ones have also been curated by the SteemTrail, too. Thanks for the idea!
ok thanks, just asking - i know not everyone will then be upvoted by all though - thanks again, much appreciated. We need to work in general on a more positive atmosphere on the platform. As you als know tsu you might know we get into a dangerous level now (with really only a few users) before any masses are here, am worried but will not loose hope, with and trust in mankind
Well, foraging and gardening are pursuits of optimists! So I hope the @foraging-trail and @gardening-trail give people a positive atmosphere and place to focus on Steemit, without being caught up in the day-to-day business of Steemit. (Those discussions are important, but people come to the internet for a respite, too.)
I like to remind myself that the underlying blockchain development that is the most important and the source of the market value now. The social platform is just part of that development process. Frustrations and collaborations can each spur ideas for blockchain applications. And no development team could dream up as many ways to stress the system, as when random human beings interact with each other over months and months, especially when money is involved! As long as the underlying blockchain is still being built, like the 2017 roadmap lays out, I think we are fine, even if the turnover is high on the social platform. The key test will happen when that technology is ready.
TSU lasted longer than Steemit has been around, with only a fraction of the financial resources. I think having communities on Steemit will help a lot. People will gravitate to their interests and it will be a lot easier to convince people to join to take part in a specific community -- like the @beer-trail! ; )
Yeah fingers crossed - tsu was a complete different story - and the reason they closed is also a mystery - i know more than i should but it was not as they ran out of money which is the official title lol - Sebastian is smart - glad i did not invest or work there
Your perspective about TSU is so interesting. So many folks would like to know the whole story, just for closure. It was a nice community of people there!
we probably will never know the entire story (some do not wann know, some rather want money back) - i know some unofficial insides - happy to share / discuss when some legal issues have been cleared one-on-one