STEMsocial, formerly known as SteemSTEM, aims to use Hive as a science communication medium.
After a successful move to Hive, our curation team has been back to work since the beginning of this week.All STEM-related tags (and more!) are now actively under scrutiny, and we try to support as much content as we can that keeps to our standards of copyright, plagiarism, etc.
Today, we will explain how to get support by STEMsocial on your blogs (guidelines), how to get even stronger support (using the app, beneficiaries) and how to support our curation efforts (delegations and ROI, trail).
In addition, all tags such as #science, #technology#, #engineering, #bats and other relevant tags are of course included in our curation efforts.
To get the best out of our curation efforts, there's a few things you may want to keep in mind.
Our support requirements ensure that any given post discusses some STEM content, although we are flexible on this definition - for instance, we have long supported history, psychology, economics, architecture, medicine and more.
We have always been highly respectable of one's intellectual property, and as such, we always verify that a post is not fraudulent or dishonest: references are checked, images are credited (and must be available for commercial purposes) and of course, plagiarism is absent.
Your content itself can be quite freeform; there is no length requirement, and we use subjective criteria to assess the post quality (and therefore support strength) which includes originality, style, effort and creativity. As one writes on a social media blockchain, we focus on content that is easily digestible by anyone and everyone.
We, of course, discourage simple rewordings of other articles such as those found on Wikipedia or any scientific news websites.
Using the stem.openhive.network app and setting /@stemsocial as a beneficiary (any small amount helps!) slightly increase the support. Similarly, comments posted through the app are eligible to small upvotes.
The best posts, resteemed by the /@stemsocial accounts, are all featured and highlighted in our weekly distilled series that will resume soon. In those present times, we usually support about 50 posts written by about 35 unique authors each week.
There are several ways to support us, which includes in particular a delegation to the account. We share the curation rewards back, with the delegators (65% of the rewards, although this can be discussed on a case by case basis) and the team (15% of the rewards). You can also consider supporting our witness
(HiveSigner link).
You can also follow us Twitter as we try to onboard more users via Twitter with a plethora of fun & insightful content!
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