Hello everyone! This post a long time coming, and not the first time i have written one like this. Many of you here on Hive will have heard of the ecoTrain community, and maybe you have posted and are a part of the weekly Question Of The Week? The ecoTrain account supports people who post on a wide range of topics that mostly relate to Sustainable Living, Eco Building, Community Living, Holistic Principles, Natural Medicine, Permaculture, Food, Health, and Esoteric Topics. I initiated ecoTrain around 5 years ago now with a very special group of people who either posted or voted. We had an exclusive band of passengers who were all very talented and great writers, and lucky enough to have our up votes aimed at them exclusively! Things have changed a lot since then, and exclusivity ended a long time ago! Since the very start of this project and community i have tried to get help with some of the many things that community leaders do, but i have always been very unsuccessful in getting the help I and this community needs. In fact, except for one or two occasions, i have managed, curated, posted, and held this entire community together all by myself! I think there has been quite a few misconceptions that there is a large group behind me helping me, but sadly that is not the case. Today i will again try to change that!
Let me start by saying that the reason i have continued to keep this community alive is because i have enormous passion for the topics i support, as well as the whole concept of the Hive blockchain and what it stands for. I have spent most of my adult life working on eco building and sustainability in general, and have given up most of my time and money to support it, lead and subsidise workshops around India, and do whatever i can to help others learn more about it. I discovered that writing was also an amazing outlet and way to reach others through blogging. Before Hive, and Steem i never wrote or read much either. As time went by i got used to writing, which for me begun with writing about Earthship Biotecture and EcoBuilding as they were my main interests. I discovered that I loved writing, it was a form of expression and also learning as well as way to share things that i felt were important.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
The Question Of The Week (QOTW) was once of the first initiatives that i started, and it has always been a source of great joy to read and write for it. It has been SO inspiring to see how these questions bring the community together in a beautiful way as we all focus on the same issues but from our own perspective and cultures. In fact, the QOTW is so popular today that it has become too hard for me to even post much of the time as i spend a lot of my time reading and curating all the amazing posts that come in. If you have been a part of it I think you will know what i mean! So if there is one aspect of this community that i think needs some help it is the QOTW! The kind of help i am looking for with this is really commenting and helping curate it. Thankfully i don’t have to deal much at all with things like plagiarism etc. as the questions are so specific and unique that its very hard to copy stuff from the internet. SO, if you are interested in supporting this initiative, ESPECIALLY with commenting then please do get in touch in the comments below!
SUSTAINABILITY & HOMESTEADING
Of course the ecoTrain community is pretty busy with many other posts, and we do receive quite a lot of posts relating to homesteading, and all the sub topics relating to that. Homesteading, Eco Building, and Off-grid sustainable living and community are very important topics and that is why there is a Sustainable Curation that I do once a week to bring together all of those posts for people to see and to inspire others who are already on this path, or considering making changes to their lives. I am also looking for help with making this curation post, as well as commenting and helping to curate it.
OCD's COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROJECT
I have been talking with acidyo and it looks like the community incubation project will happen again with the ecoTrain community. This means that we may well have the support of their up-votes along with ours to further boost the support we can give to people who post great content. So everyone who is helping the ecoTrain community will be a part of this process and can help to find those extra special posts that will then be rewarded with much bigger up-votes. This is a slightly more challenging job as we have to be much more sure that the people who receive this extra special votes are really genuine e.g not plagiarized.
SUPPORTING NEW PEOPLE ON HIVE
Then finally there are the rest of the posts that are generally related to one of the main topics that we support, and i would also like to get some help curating, commenting and voting on them. We have a LOT of new people on Hive who come to the ecoTrain community and i do my very best to encourage them to post, and support them with comments. Sadly my commenting has been reducing lately as the volume of posts is so high that i simply cannot keep up!
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
SO, if you are interested in helping the ecoTrain community to grow and bring more people together from all walks of life please let me know in the comments. Please let me know what kind of help you are interested in doing, and approximately how many hours a week you would be able to set aside. My main requirement is that you speak and write English well enough to read and understand posts, and of course can write comments in English. Even though there are people from many countries, English is the common language that we all share and that is the language i use to comment with.
REWARDS
In terms of rewards or compensation, I have to really think and decide exactly how I can best share the abundance that the ecoTrain account receives from up-votes and curation. I’m not yet sure of exactly how i will reward those of you who will be helping, and I think that will depend to quite some extent what kind of help is being offered and if there is real passion and commitment. What i REALLY want to avoid is people who are just helping to get some more rewards and HP without their hearts in it.. Primarily it's about the cause and then the abundance can follow! With that said you will be rewarded in the normal ways such as beneficiaries on ecoTrain posts, and perhaps we can even make more posts as i only do three a week due to my time constraints.
So, this is not the first time i have put a call out for help but i am hoping it receives more interest than it has in the past. I think the community is amazing and it has grown so much lately with real genuine people who have so much to share and give. I really look forward now to taking this to the next level and perhaps finally being able to let go a bit of the reins so that others can contribute and shape it into something even more special.
Please comment below if you have any interest in this and I will get back to you very soon!
THANK YOU!!!! <3