Greetings Steemians,
did you know that there is a built-in promotion function on Steemit.com?
Promotion on Steemit
Besides the Trending, Newand Hotcategory, there is also Promoted. In order for your posts to be shown there, you need to click on a big button below your post, called Promote.
Behind the scenes, a transfer is being made to @null with a specified amount of SBD and a memo with the following format: @author/postlink. This transfer is essentially burning SBD (reducing the total amount of SBD) and thus very good for the ecosystem as a whole.
Problem: Nobody uses it!
Sadly, not many people use this feature, as it's much more valuable to be trending or hot, than being showcased on promoted.
SCOT tribes realised this and changed up the burning-promotion system, where the promoted section was merged with trending & hot. Meaning, the promoted posts are being displayed among normal posts. On top of that, they use their native asset as burn material, in Steemit's case that would be STEEM.
We hope that Steemit.com implements the same procedure, however, we think we've got a great proposition on how to give an additional incentive to burning STEEM & SBD via transfer to @null.
New Feature: Request a Curation Review By Burning STEEM & SBD
We've implemented a feature which will alert our curation team when someone sends a transfer of at least 1 STEEM/1 SBD (!) to @null with a post link as memo. Once we're received the notification, our team will then review the post and check if it's worthy for curation.
Important: This is not a guarantee that your post will receive an upvote! It's simply a way of you telling us: Hey, please check out my awesome post!
While the default Steemit.com promotion system only accepts SBD and a very specific format, we're both scanning transfers of STEEM & SBD to @null.
Here are some examples:
- Bob sends 1 SBD to @null with
@bob/my-awesome-post- This will trigger a curation review request AND the Steemit.com promotion
- Bob sends 1 SBD to @null with
https://steemit.com/@bob/my-awesome-post- This will ONLY trigger a curation review request
- Bob sends 0.5 SBD to @null with
@bob/my-awesome-post- This will ONLY trigger the Steemit.com promotion
- Alice sends 1 STEEM to @null with
@alice/my-awesome-post- This will ONLY trigger a curation review request
- Alice sends 1 STEEM to @null with
https://steemit.com/@alice/my-awesome-post- This will ONLY trigger a curation review request
- Alice sends 0.5 STEEM to @null with
https://steemit.com/@alice/my-awesome-post- This will do nothing!
Important: We hope that in the future even complete post links (which includes http://steemit, https://steempeak, etc) are going to be supported as well as transfers of STEEM. But for now, it is as explained above.
What's next?
We're working on new features, which will bring the first use-cases to our SmartPoints system.
If you've got any questions or feedback, please let us know in the comments.
Sincerely,
Team Smartsteem
I applaud this initiative
This is an immense improvement over the previous smartsteem that like all other vote selling services, merely acted as an intermediary of helping stakeholders launder the value of their votes and in the process out compete honest curation and undermine our entire proof of brain value proposition. That's not really a criticism of smartsteem directly, as you were merely a product of a broken economy.
Now that the new economy is in I'm glad to see you adapt in a way that isn't just some 'raising standards of vote buying' which we both have acknowledged doesn't do anything in practice.
This is fantastic, let me clarify a few issues:
Either way I'm very happy to hear this wolf. Hopefully before too long curation will be the dominant form of staking returns and honest voting will be the norm. I think this will benefit everyone the most in the long term.
Correct. It's without any sort of agreement or exchange in the form of votes/money. This is purely for the good of the platform.
Currently via curation rewards in exchange for SmartPoins, which can be utilized sometime in the near future.
Yes, but only as soon as we've got an alternative for our users. So far, we've stopped accepting transfers to @smartsteem and am currently redirecting them to @smartmarket. But this is only a temporary measure. The ultimate goal is to move completely to curation and services which are 100% in-line with attracting and retaining users.
I cant argue with this, and hope the other bot services do the same.
I want to know the answer to these questions too. Though I'm pretty sure this is another service for #smartsteem on top of what they have, rather than changing of their services.
The suspense is killing me! 😜
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The Promoted should be merged with trending and hot section like what scot tribes does @smartsteem and I hope that it will be implemented soon in steemit.
Plus we need the steem and sbd burn system like that or whatever so that at least it will help with the price of steem.
My question is that can we send sbd and steem now to @null for a hope of curation benefits? Thanks.
Exactly!
Yes. See the examples section in the post. If you send at least 1 STEEM, your post will be reviewed. If you send at least 1 SBD, you'll be reviewed and also be seen in the promoted section. But remember to use the correct format (
@author/permlink) if you want to be seen on promoted.hey smart steem thanks for the upvote. i'm trying to update my completed article but my resource credits are too low. Please help.
Dear @Smartsteem, does the "permalink" include the "tag" which immediately precedes the post title. Please explain more. Usually Steemit link looks like this:
https://steemit.com/newsteem/@uyobong/my-new-steem-post.
Explain better please.
We'll find out...
Edit: It works!
Thank you
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No problem, my friend got some nice $12 in votes from it too. Definitely worthwhile! (Especially since their post is 100% powered up)
Awesome
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Congrats to Smartsteem for adapting and making changes that improve the overall health of the platform. It is really inspiring and is an indication of commitment to improvements that are beneficial to e community at large.
Well done.
I didn't know that burning SBD was a way of promoting your post on Steemit. Thanks for the tip! I had to convert some Steem on the market to get some SBD though :)
good feature maybe it will do something.
But who would send 1 SBD if you can get the same curation if you send 1 STEEM?
Because you will also be displayed in the promoted section if you send SBD. This will most likely change somewhere in the future, once that happens, we'll rethink how high the threshold should be to get a review.
But I pay a way higher premium at current prices
Great.
The Promoted Interface is only on Steemit.com - which means that, while this is where most of the traffic is, it hasn't been effective, or something that I have looked at in a very, very long time due to using superior interfaces like Steempeak.
The fact that Steem must be burnt to trigger this is fantastic.
Will you be producing reports on users that seek curation reviews the most, and those who are successful? I would be interested in this information to see what sort of content people are putting up for your curation reviews.
You should also monitor the account for Steemmonster card transfers to null. :P
Encouraging other UIs to also make use of the promoted list would encourage more usage of it i.e. more burning. If you are a user of other UIs, please encourage them!
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glad to see people are trying hard, i hope it all works out for the better, even if i sound like walking darkness sometimes, i really do ... it would be real shame to see it all go down the drain to hell :)
Yeah, sometimes STEEM feels like walking in the dark. But I see some improvements the HF21 did, not only drawbacks.
That's too long, but I agree with some of what you said. Rich are only get Richer~
So awesome to see all this new stuff from smart steem.
Interesting.... Think I will try this with my next post.
Works the same with #steemmonsters, we can turn cards into DEC or combine cards. This reduces the total number of cards available.
I like this, more reason to 🔥 Steem.... @smartsteem trying now 👍🏽
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I think people would go for straight vote rather than burning and that too in this way vote is not guaranteed.
Does it work if you’ve already promoted the post via @smartmarket ? $trdo
Wow, that is some great information! I didn't know you had to put the @name / prior to the post link, that is probably the reason I never received any additional support from steemit.inc on any of promoted posts from that tab.. Ultimately I stopped using it because it never seemed to help.. I might try it again now.
Thanks for being awesome and trying to help the promotion issue on steemit, I am sure you will figure something out and continue to be an extremely helpful service on this platform!
Great initiative ! I will try out as soon as tomorrow !
Is it just me?
It seems that Steemit.com disabled the Promote option. You can still manually send transfers to @null.
Will your team curate non-English post? #polish for example
Yes, they do.
Quelle
So in essence burning steem reduces the supply which causes the value to go up?
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Yeah, that's the theory. At least it means less STEEM in 'sell' section of exchanges.
Correct
This is amazing! Wonder how many will use this feature... I think I'll try when I make a post I'm confident enough with!
Dear @smartsteem
Such an excellent idea. I wonder how does your team benefit from this initiative. After all you guys are going to put some extra effort and it would be great if you could have something from it for yourselfs.
Also it would be awesome if you could create some site with simple information (2 columns): received link + decision (either pending, denied or upvoted). This way users could monitor progress much easier.
ps.
It it possible to send 1 steem to null with memo promoting someones else content? Would you guys take it into consideration as well?
Yours
Piotr
They will look at whatever post is in the memo, doesn't matter who it was who sent in the STEEM/SBD.
Their team benefits from the entire STEEM community benefiting... This platform needs teamwork from everyone in order for everyone to grow...
This is a fantastic idea. Triple bonus use of burning SBD. Ace.
Cheers for the upvote earlier too.
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so we have built a system which has auto-inflating system and now we try to stop or even redjce the inflation?
why we just don't try to stop what caused inflation at the first step?
like changing the reward pool policies or burning for RC, flagging etc? like Ethereum...
because it's already to late @honarparvar
Sounds like a great idea to me. I'm in the process of building my account from minnow to dolphin, was I'm open to any tool or service that will enable me to achieve that goal. Hopefully, I will burn some steem this week.
Ok, this is dope. Next flex!
I did use this feature when I first came to Steem 2 years ago a few times or so and it did seem as if no one used it. I liked the idea though and I will use it again!
The promote feature was heavily used in the early days of Steemit, unfortunately it was used by people promotion shitcoins and alike. Eventually everyone just started to ignore it.
Problem with shitcoin?
Solution: New shitcoin
GENIUS :D :D :D
Great to see that your first contribution in over 2 months is a jab. (sarc)
Everything is considered a shitcoin until it proves otherwise, and I intend to do that with SmartPoints.
Well. You know I broke my ties to steem after I saw censorship on all platfroms. That was the only selling point to me and its gone.
You cant build and incentive model on fake money. It wont ever work, incentives arent there. Build something useful on bitcoin.
I am happy to see how fast you have reacted to the new market conditions that (hopefully) are about to change Steem. There is a lot of work in recreating confidence in the proof of brain concept. This is really a positive approach. I have been upvoting @smooth's burnpost to at least have one vote counting.
Now I'll try throwing a couple of Steem in the fires for your curators.
hm... this looks rather interesting but what if someone sends more than one steem for promotion, instead of sending 1 SBD (minimum)?
It would only trigger a curation request. Promoted ONLY accepts SBD.
Great initiative, this is exactly what Steem needs.
I tried it out on my latest post :-)
Hello @smartsteem and everyone,
A question that happens with the community that publishes in Spanish. It will be considered for review. I know that many who published in Spanish are not seen and their publications are very good.
Will they be taken into account?
I am at your service to work with you, one of my references is that I currently belong to the buildteam.io team
I must thank you for all the support you are giving to the community, and I include myself in that ..
I would like to know if I can translate this publication.
So that this information of great importance can reach many in my community, since they make their publications in Spanish.
I send you my best regards from Venezuela.
His friend
@lanzjoseg
Never actually used the PROMO button myself. Just thought devs put it in for advertisers or special events for common users.
You can find all of our curated posts under the trail function on SteemPeak: https://steempeak.com/@smartsteem/trail
But we might implement an automated list sometime in the near future.
I'd say combine them in one post. Especially if there isn't much of each of them.