Sports OCD Curation Incubation Update

With just two more updates left before the year end we are getting close to our goal of having 1000 members. Up 19 new members from a week ago we are currently sitting at 930 so it will be close and something to keep building on. OCD with it's curation program has really helped grow the community and generally I have found the standard of posts being published improving consistently. When we first started out it was more of a struggle to find new users to push forward and every week now we are getting new names added to the regular club. I say regular club as their posts are worthy of extra upvotes.

In the last post I asked for ideas on trying to find how we can improve the overall experience on Sportstalk and we have had some responses. @patrickulrich has seen them and I am hoping some of them can be up for discussion. This is a community tribe and Patrick has made it clear the community makes the decisions on what happens.

@foodies-bee-hive has been putting through some changes and has made the information for other tribes to use and incorporate this. I just want to say thanks to @jasonbu for allowing other communities to use these tools as it does show at a glance what is happening. I am sure there are some other things we can add to this to like top curators etc. The more information we have at a glance will help attract more interest in the tribe.

A few people have mentioned that the @sportstalk tribe needs updating and we have to understand we are stuck in a catch 22 situation. If we pay a developer to overhaul the site and it costs $100's of dollars and they are paid in sports they could become the leading token holder overnight or worse yet flood the exchange. I suppose the best question to ask is there any developer in the sports tribe? @patrickulrich has been learning code, but have no clue what his abilities are just yet. No pressure Patrick lol.

This week @sportstalk had 19 posts submitted for curation with @ocd so we are close to averaging 3 per day and wish we could get this up to 4 at some point soon. If you are missing out please keep trying and have a look at what is being curated. I hate to pick any authors out for a special mention, but take a peek at @mvl2304's blog. The time and effort he puts into his posts is worth a vote just for that alone and throw in that they are varied and interesting. It is not surprising that this guy is trying to become a sports journalist back home. It kind of shows us what could happen if we have 50 or 100 more just like him writing on here. That is where we are heading hopefully as the popularity of the site grows.

I have been trying to think of a tag for the next round of posts and was thinking we have all done something stupid or embarrassing in sport at one time or another. If you have something I am sure we would all love to hear about it and use the #sportsfail.

Please don't forget to keep adding any ideas on what you would like to do or see change on the @sportstalk site. There is no such thing as a bad idea so don't hold back and give it some thought. I am pushing this train of thought as standing still and doing nothing will ultimately harm the tribe more and we need to do something.

I will finish off by adding a post on this topic by @cryptosimplify. He has some ideas and raised the gaming posts questioning why they can earn sports for non related sports content. I am with him on this as they have a Hive gaming community these days.
@cryptosimplify/sports-talk-social-ideas