Two weeks ago I wrote a post floating the idea of a tag for users who don’t use any bidbots and want to build a community that facilitates faster organic growth for users who contribute quality material. You can see that post here: Why don’t we all protest the Trending and Hot page? - #nobidbot.

I propose we make use of a tag (#nobidbot) for users who are not using any bidbots and encourage whales and dolphins to get onboard and support us. If we can get some good curation on the #nobidbot tag we can also encourage many of the users of those bidbots to stop and join our cause as they discover there are more ways to succeed without these kind of schemes.

even our bots are organic

Enter @transparencybot

Since then @bycoleman and I have had a kind of loose collaboration of sorts. We have worked entirely independently of each other but with a high degree of mutual support. I have been helping him spread the word about about @transparencybot while he has helped spread the word about #nobidbot and has even started using the @transparencybot upvote for posts using the #nobidbot tag. He’s just started a @nobidbot username and plans on working on a curation project for the tag.

This is exactly what I had in mind for the project, so I’m very pleased with the way it’s going. I’m spread quite thin between community projects, writing and music, and supporting all the great friends I meet here, so I’m glad there ar people who are really pushing this thing forward so I’m not doing all the work myself. There are a few things I want to say about it though.

Some important information and news about #nobidbot

We have a discord room

This is a community driven project

As with the other projects I’ve worked on (Be Awesome, Deadpost Initiative, #steemitzombies), I’ve made a point not to make any rigid hierarchy or rules. I am looking for collaborators who can stand on equal footing and who can work towards consensus through community discussion. I don’t intend on becoming a leader in the traditional sense of the word and I’d like to prevent anyone else from doing the same. I merely see myself as a gatekeeper to protect the community from those who would use it for their own selfish ends.

I trust @bycoleman’s intentions, I think he’s doing great things for steemit, but I’ve just reached out to him in the comments to urge him (and anyone else who likes this idea) to join me on discord start an open discussion on discord where we can build a consensus about the future direction of this and other projects and agree upon how curation will work and how the @nobidbot account will be used.

#nobidbot Tag usage is growing rapidly

Aside from the support of @bycoleman, @abh12345 recently made a post with the #nobidbot tag currently worth $256.20 , making it the most successful #nobidbot post to date. @k0wsk1 also made an open mic entry with the tag that is at $78.27. I image that these two posts greatly contributed to the growth of this movement. There have been at least 51 #nobidbot posts in the last 24 hours and I imagine it will only grow from here. @sivehead made Amun poem about #nobidbot too, check it out

Dolphins!

Among the users of this tag, there are at least 8 aside from myself with a rep of 60 and above. That’s great news. I want to encourage all these users to use this tag to find good content by smaller users to upvote follow, and resteem. Check out the new #nobidbot posts rather than just the Trending. Let’s spread the wealth and make more dolphins on the platform!

More info about the chat and the Community Catalyst discord

I encourage everyone to come to the #nobidbot chat and get to know each other so that we can decide together where this goes. The #nobidbot chat is part of a larger project called the Community Catalyst discord.

The goal of this larger project is to bring people together to collaborate on projects and ideas that solve problems on and off steemit in a casual and natural way, projects that benefit the overall community and many individuals within it. Users who want to put their energy or SP towards a good cause but aren’t sure which to choose or perhaps don’t like the hierarchy of some other initiatives are welcome to come and support existing projects. People with great ideas but without the large following or lots of SP to get much attention can come to brainstorm together, contribute to existing projects and start their own projects and community chats and find support if it’s an idea that the larger catalyst community can’t get behind.

Current projects include the Deadpost Initiative and #steemitzombies which both aim to find readers and payouts on undervalued posts which have past the 7 day payout deadline.

One last thing I’d like to say: let this be proof that anyone can really make a difference, that no one is small and insignificant. All I did was float the idea for a tag and show some support for people with a similar idea. This idea cascaded and it may turn into a movement that could change the culture at steemit. We all run into failure someies but if you insist on being the Chang you want to seek, eventually you will see the world begin to mirror that change in yourself. You matter!

If you don’t know where to start, you are welcome to come join us in the discord!

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