~ Photography Lovers Community Never Gonna Catch Up Curation part 1 ~
Hello and welcome, fellow Photography Lovers! It has been an honor and privilege to manage and curate this amazing community. As many of you may have noticed, there hasn't been a HotShot curation report in quite a while.
Putting together these curation posts is quite a daunting task at times. I generally have the template set up to accommodate 70 photos including the user and the title link to take you all directly to the post where that featured photograph comes from. At times I cut it a bit shorter and at other times I add a few extra just to stay caught up to the flow of content we have posted into our community.
I am a one-man team and have been for quite some time now. Curating isn't just plugging in all the posts and the links and user names. Curating means getting rid of scammers and bot accounts trying to milk rewards. Curating includes manually reviewing each individual post and also checking for undisclosed AI and plagiarized content.
Clearly, this is not an easy chore and I am not even mentioning my other tasks on Hive I do from behind the scenes. The primary focus of these reports is to help everyone get more traffic to your blogs and content. It is also structured to make sure that posts are still open for voting so that we can all reward and support each other. This is only possible when I stay caught up though.
Lately, we have had family company for days multiple times in a row. My son is getting to the stage where he is becoming almost as wild as his father and needs constant supervision. Our not-so-new apartment is still in need of many actions to make it truly a home.
I have been on dad duty while my partner has been doing her schooling and internships. Needless to say, I haven't had much time to even open my computer, let alone do all the things necessary to manage and curate as well as the standard i hold myself to. I personally cannot do Hive oriented anything on a phone.
In general, i try to chronologically go through all the posts in the community to see which ones will be nominated for OCD votes and which ones will be featured in our HotShots reports. I have gotten so far behind i hit a wall and don't even know where to start to pick back up and was/am very close to burn-out. I have tried to at least take what little computer time i could manage to scrounge up and drop the nominations for the OCD votes as often as possible.
So, i have not been completely inactive but whenever i have had time to hop online there has been so much to remove and moderate it left me with even less time to do the more fun and social aspects of why i enjoy HIVE. I also do all of this for the Alien Art Hive community but i get some help there and i am very grateful to Julia for all that she has done.
This is not a 'poor pitiful me' post and i am not looking for sympathy or anything, i just wanted to give some context and let you all know what's up. I will be going back and selecting some posts that have already paid out and will be selecting in a more refined way features for this round of HotSHots. To be honest, these curation reports are the most difficult to make and pay the least amount of rewards. I may be doing HotShots in a more streamlined and shorter form moving forward. Everyone here is always supportive of me and understandably knows that family ALWAYS comes first. But, y'all are also my PhotoFamily!
I would love to hear any feedback, ideas, suggestions, or changes you all think i could apply to make our community more engaging and rewarding for us all down in the comments.
Thank you for taking the time to stop by and honor the selections today. Keep up the great work creating your content and thanks for sharing it here with us in the Photography Lovers Community!
~ Community Rules ~
ALL PHOTOGRAPHY MUST BE YOUR OWN ORIGINAL CONTENT
IF YOU ARE NOT THE PHOTOGRAPHER YOU MUST BE THE MODEL
NO STOCK IMAGES UNLESS YOU ARE THE CONTENT CREATOR
NO PLAGIARISM WILL BE TOLERATED
ALL TEXT MUST ALSO BE YOUR OWN ORIGINAL CONTENT
or otherwise sourced and cited!
ALL NON-PHOTOGRAPHY POSTS WILL BE MUTED
SINGLE IMAGE POSTS WITH LITTLE TO NO MEANINGFUL TEXT MAY BE MUTED
ANY AND ALL USE OF AI
IN YOUR IMAGES OR TEXTS MUST BE DISCLOSED
WITHIN THE CONTENT OF YOUR POST
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ONLY POSTS
WILL BE MUTED
SELFIES & DAILY SNAPSHOT POSTS MAY BE MUTED at curator discretion
ACTIVE STEEMIT & BLURT USERS WILL BE MUTED
~ How to Get Curated and Be Featured Here ~
SHARE 2 or MORE IMAGES IN YOUR POST
YOUR POST MUST HAVE AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION INCLUDED
MAKE SURE TO ANSWER YOUR COMMENTS & ENGAGE YOUR FOLLOWERS
GIVE IT YOUR BEST SHOT!
We will not be curating single-image posts, especially with little to no description. This community is focused on high-quality content which includes what surrounds the images you share here.
We do not curate cross-posts
Don't forget to go by and support your fellow photographers by checking out their posts and leaving some meaningful and engaging comments. Engaging in the community is what helps build and grow it. We are all here to support each other!
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