Sports OCD Curation Weekly Update

We are now 7 weeks into this curation project with @ocd and things are going really well. In some aspects anyway which you will see by the numbers if we compare them to nearly 2 months ago. I think what @ocd has done is highlighted areas we can improve on plus other areas that need to change making the community stronger. What @ocd has done is given everyone a chance to be supported and improve on their offerings and their actions.

We started out with 722 members in sports and that has jumped up to 856 which is around an 18% increase and up another 14 from last week. One thousand was the target I was hoping we would achieve by the year end and at this rate it will be close. My calculations say we need 20 new members per week to achieve this goal so it is doable if we all get involved.

Over the last week I must be honest I have been struggling to find posts to curate as many are on football matches being a report with no personal thoughts and input. I can't think of anything more off putting than that type of post as you as an author are offering nothing new and are adding no value. My view is that it is a longer form of spam and is wasting everyone's time. Who are you trying to kid thinking you are a reporter for a newspaper or something? I have always said add value by adding your own perspective and thoughts and literally the opposite of what we are seeing right now.

Currently we have possibly 25 authors who get curated on a regular basis and would like to see that increase as everyone should be trying to be curated. Time and effort is required with your own words and thoughts which is not asking much as that is what everyone should be doing anyway. This is not a rant, but a general observation so everyone knows what is going on and possibly why they aren't being curated.

Activity is down which I think is the same amongst all the other communities except Leo. I will get onto that in a bit as they are doing something right. Currently many are posting and are not interacting with other users reading and commenting on their posts. The stats say we have 130 of us who are active and we seriously need to at least make 8 comments per week to break the 1000 mark raising the interactions.

What is a bit scary is some posts are lop sided as they are competitions with users joining in so if we remove those then the interactions are much lower and this is really pathetic. The trick is how do we fix this and increase the engagement?

I think the answer is right in front of us and we need to follow @leofinance's lead by changing the way curation happens on the sports tribe. I am asking all the large stake holders to please stop their auto voting and to use their vote to support comments and new users. The vote is currently top heavy going to a set few which is not encouraging new users to join.

Making curation rewards is great but where does that leave the tribe as a community? What is more important for the long term is the question you should be asking yourselves. Is that post you just voted on worth 100 000 sports tokens which is now 20 Hive? I know the answer already and so do you and that is what needs to change.

There are some posts going through @ocd curation that have one or two votes and making the average post on sports that is receiving plenty of support looking like a shit post. That tells me very few are looking to curate and this is just too easy to earn. Go look at the trending page and compare that to your offerings over the last week and spot the difference.

Change needs to happen and many of us as the larger stake holders need to change for the better of the community. I believe if we get this right then the members will come flooding in changing sports for the good. We have to all look further than next month and think about what we want from sports in years to come.