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Here are a couple more ideas to broaden the scope of the FreeCompliments community! Selfie Saturdays will be another themed day.

As the FreeCompliments Community account grows to have a more valuable vote, themed posts may get a slightly higher vote percentage in order to encourage posting, yet would still be based on quality.

While the topics are themed on certain days, this does not mean that these themes are not permitted on other days. It’s just an incentive to encourage posting! All topics are allowed on all days.

In maintaining consistency with prior ideas, any posts which add the the FreeCompliments Community account as a beneficiary would receive an Ecency Boost of at least 150 points ($1 worth of votes). This percentage is still to be determined.

Selfie Saturdays

Selfies are a tremendously marketable and easily engaged form of blogging that’s popular on nearly every platform imaginable – including the old Reddit-based version of FreeCompliments. In fact, the Reddit-based version basically turned into a selfie machine. I don’t want that to happen on Hive. However, I also don’t want to exclude selfies. Hence, a day dedicated to them may be useful as another themed day!

Just make sure to title the post with “Selfie Saturdays” in the title. Add some more description to your selfie (either in the title or in the post area), and you’ll be more likely to get more visits and bigger votes!

A balance of safety and freedom of speech will be essential here, so I’ll establish some rules and guidelines.

Regarding selfies: be aware of what you’re putting out on the internet; if you’re uncomfortable posting a selfie, then don’t. If you do post an image, please don't post pictures of other people unless you have their express permission.
We will remain consistent with our promise to upvote all relevant posts in the interest of freedom of speech and engagement; however, we’ll enforce voting percentages as a mode of content control. Hence, pornographic content will not be encouraged as strongly as non-pornographic content (i.e. pornographic content would receive a significantly smaller vote than non-pornographic content). Minimal 0.1% upvotes may be implemented in such cases as long as the content is not illegal in nature. Artistic posts, or those with a clear effort to create some form of photographic art, would be more highly regarded, even if pornographic in nature. Just please label such posts as NSFW!
Child and animal pornography are strictly prohibited, and any suspicion of such will be reported to authorities.
Other illegal content is also strictly permitted, and any suspicion of such will be reported to authorities.
Don’t spam or you’ll lose the FreeCompliments community account’s votes completely. Spamming would consist of posting the same exact content over and over, or posting a very large amount of nearly-identical content over and over.

Discord

We have a Discord dedicated to the Hive FreeCompliments Community! Here is the permanent invite link.

Please join (if interested) and please invite anyone that you think might be remotely interested in this type of community. We’d like to network this idea outside of Hive as well, and if the Discord community grows large enough, possibly recruit some people to join Hive from the Discord community.

Conclusion

Keeping in line with the FreeCompliments’ community of spreading joy, Selfie Saturdays are another themed day intended to provide a space for people to safely post their own images. Discord will help with networking and building up FreeCompliments even further.

What do you think? Are there any other themed days you would suggest?

I would love to hear the opinions about these methods of increasing engagement from everyone who is currently a member of FreeCompliments, since you’re all inaugural members! Anyone else who finds this page is also very welcome to voice their opinion. We’re all about free speech, and everyone’s experience has value.

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