Thank you for sharing what you think. Take the time you need to make your decisions.
Thank you for everything you've done for this community and I think I couldn't tell you how grateful I am for the work you have been doing. And before last night's discussion on Discord, I didn't think I was part of the problem, but it turns out to be quite the opposite. I thought I was doing well in trying to write my articles as best I could, but I forgot to interact with the rest of the community and I realize that now I have a problem that should not have existed in the first place. I will change my behaviour and do my best to really be part of this community, one of the best I have ever met :)
I've tried to think of different ideas that could allow for more involvement of the community while relieving the SteemSTEM team of the incredible workload you have right now. Here are some of them I'd like to share with you: (I don't know if it's already been mentioned in the comments, I haven't had time to read them all yet)
The first idea is to offer members a broader mentoring program to connect newcomers with experienced members a bit like what you might see in some universities.
Perhaps it might also be possible to involve community members more in the curation process to facilitate the work of the curators. For example, there could be a channel on discord, accessible to members you have a minimum trust in, on which a bot would post all articles published on the steemstem tag and trusted members could use feedback (the emoji) to say if they think the content is good quality or not, if they have checked the copyright on the images used, if they have verified that it was not a copy/paste or spam. This does not mean promoting, or deciding the curation, but rather facilitating the work of the curators. I used discord as an example but one could imagine using a website or any other service.
The last idea is a way to sort steemstem publications by field either by asking to use a certain tag in addition to steemstem (I know a lot of them already do but maybe standardize it in an article) or have a space where you can share articles according to themes. I think that if we have easier access to articles in the topic we are looking for (even if it doesn't explain everything), we might have more interaction.
Here are my 2 cents, I don't know if these are good or bad ideas, but I hope that some solutions will be found and we will move forward.
Anyway, THANK YOU to all of you ! See you soon !
Thanks a lot for your ideas. The mentoring program is being implemented (we had the same idea at roughly the same time as you did ^^), but for curation, we won't change anything. We are already involving more than 15 people. I guess this is enough.
For the rest, I am afraid that this demands more work (and we are currently trying to reduce our workload./ In any case, thanks for passing by!