Today I came across a blog of recently created LEO account's blog, which made me to stop, and think for a while.
This author has created his Hive account less than two month ago, on "threespeak", yet has zero followers, zero follows,
0.00 LEO, 0.00 LP and just miserable 23 delegated HP (Hive Power) tokens to him.
Rather helpless, right?
Never the less, I see him in the last 4 days published eight good posts, all from LeoFinance UI.
All these posts, while maybe not the very best I've ever seen, were quite well made, yet having 3-5 upvotes at most, and rewards were all below 1 Leo.
And I said - no, this is unfair.
Besides doing routine upvoting in this blog, had to decide which of them is the best for TORUK's hit.
Finally I picked one of the recent. Simply do not wanted to give max boost to the older post.
But something kept swarming in my mind:
Is this all I can do in supporting him?
This fresh Lion (Kitty?) clearly needs visibility. And encouragement.
Finally, I came to a new conclusion, which I will disclose now to LEO people.
From now on, once TORUK sees some exceptional, persistent, hard struggling new authors here on LEO, he will do a bit more, that just leaving a plain message "I was here". Something what should help to be seen more. To break through the ever growing daily post stream. A bonus. This:
Rebloging is easy, and cost me nothing.
Yes, sure, I do not have thousands of followers here on Leo, on this account. But even 200 is better than zero, or 10, right?
Promotion? Yes, why not? Lets try it
Promotion has a double positive effect. Besides giving a standout, better visibility to the promoted blog, it also benefits to the whole community. Those LEO coins paid for promotion gets burned. Which reduces the total supply. Which, accordingly, benefits for LEO token price growth. Sure, not a big deal, but again, as oldtimers say - "grain to grain will get you to..."
I make no commitments how much will be paid for promotions, nor how often this will be done. Maybe once a month, maybe twice a week. (After all, who knows what I will see and find)
Follow Toruk
Last few days I was thinking a lot how to increase the number of Leo curators, who are following my upvotes with their voting bots. There is no incentive advantage for me having more voting followers. But it makes feel good seeing, how a low voted post comes up by +10 or more instantly, once my vote has been recorded to the blockchain.
If you have a limited time for manual curations, feel free to follow this my curation account with your favorite voting bot.
I personally use rewarding.app and hive.vote bots, but there are more, all suitable.
Who knows, if this works well, I may one day even establish some promotion (prize, lottery, or smth I don't know yet) for my voting followers. Maybe Toruk will have his own "army" one day 😃
Happy BITCOIN BIRTHDAY, Lions !
I'm still waiting, if I will see a dedicated, big, impressive post for this day's occasion. Mr. Trace has disappeared, and nobody seems remembering it any more. You still can do it, until tomorrow ...
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Kudos to you Mr. Makto.
I'll make it a habit to check your account to see which under-rewarded kittens got your support.
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I'm one month old here and the most I struggle with is being noticed. I feel so good after someone with a big voting reward shows on one of my posts and vote for it.
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Well, that's what I wanted to receive when I was a beginner. I believe that beyond marketing to enroll as many as possible it is just as important to retain new members and encourage them.
I would like to be part of your following but I did not know how to proceed. I will try the applications you mentioned.
Happy New Year!
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I love what you do about Leo! My stake is not that big but I will try and curate more new users the upcoming days!
Go go TUROK army!
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Great to see fresh blood on the platform and you supporting its steps in the beginning. This is the way to welcome new and promising users and strengthen the community. Keep up the good work, the results will be seen in time!
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Engagement can help a lot and I see lack of engagement from new users. I don't know why, maybe they are not familiar with how engagement can help or don't know how to do it.
In any case it's nice of you to concentrate your time and resources towards new users.
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that's quite an awesome initiative!!
I was thinking except my usual curation when i grow my Leo stake way more to make a new initiative providing upvotes to quality posts that are older than 1 day. Somehow after a day our posts feel "useless" mostly nobody pays attention to it.
I also heard that leo might do something about our posts that are after the payout, i wish they do something but we will see!
Once again awesome initiative!
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useless ;)It would be cool if @khaleelkazi could implement a search option such as: 1 day old posts / 2 days old posts / 5 days old etc. That way posts wouldn't feel
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yeah great idea
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Initiatives like yours could help new users a lot! You're magnificent!
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Hats off once again for the time you spend daily to find good posts. We will enjoy the fruits of those efforts, not just yours but everyone's who want to see LEO thrive in the not so distant future...I am sure of that.
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It is true, it is seen in recently created articles, it is noted that they are users created from the leofinance interface or so it seems, I also leave a vote from time to time, I will follow you to be aware while my mana recovers
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@onealfa, could you share the name of that account? I would like to check the content.
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I wanted to ask the same.
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@kanap
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@onealfa.leo, I just had a look at his/her/its posts. They are OK. I find them interesting. However, there is one slight drawback, at least in my view. This account has no introduction post. It also has no post with any pictures/videos where we can see who is behind the account. Moreover, the posts published so far look like 'copy+paste'-posts. That's why probably this account is not popular.
TORUK was fooled...
Well, it happens sometimes. But it will never last for long.
Luckily there are some Lions much better detectives than me.
The proof of plagiarism was delivered.
This will also serve ( I hope ) as good warning to others, who might try to do the same. Soo bye-bye Mr. @kanap
"Don't mess with Toruk"
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Oh just saw this. Glad you had some help to confirm it was dodgy content.
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I can well understand your concerns. But I have no proof if it is plagiator or scammer. And have not enough time or tools to make a deep research.
If anyone can make a deeper research, and see if these articles have any copy-paste proof, as a plagiation job, I will appreciate.
And will well reward your efforts.
It should be done ASAP, before the post is expired, so I can remove my upvotes in time ( if I need to)
There is always a risk, that some trained, motivated plagiators will be smarter than you, will fool everyone, and get rewards which they do not deserve. We must live with this risk.
Those, who one day fail, and I get the evidence of my mistake (in promoting) - will learn how bad and hard TORUK can hit back, in revenge. :)
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I googled a few of the more distinct phrases from each of two posts. Each search returned few results and HIVE front ends were usually the first and/or second result, with other results poorly connected to the phrase. That's cursory, but I'm leaning toward original work.
I'm not looking for any reward as I did not dig all that deeply nor spend more than a moment or two.
Thanks for pointing out the new author.
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https://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/
The tool is quite useful for debunking scammers.
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@onealfa.leo , I don't claim that it is a 'copy+paste' work. It just looks like it is at first sight. I also think that it is not a copy+paste work.
I’ve only had a cursory look over one of the posts however they read as if the “author” has converted content from a different language to English. So they could be a copy and paste job with a language conversion thrown in to make them harder to identify as plagiarism.
Something to keep in mind anyway.
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Thank you! Will start to follow him.
It's great what you're doing, but how will you keep the pace when 10x such users will come to hive on a weekly basis, plus you have the old and salted ones.
With the risk of getting ridiculed I'll once again say that auto votes and curation trails do more harm than good for this blockchain.
Often times these are taking tokens from the rewards pool distributing them usually to the same users while newcomers end up with leftovers.
I know, they're the founders and OGs, but if we want such users as the ones you've mentioned to gain exposure and see their content appreciated, we need to do some tweaks...
If that guy/gal will not loose faith, and with your help he will definitely won't lose it, he has a bright future in here.
Thumbs up for what you're doing. Quite exceptional.
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Love your ways help for others especially newbie like me developing knowledge about blogger and motivated me to writing articles thanks toruk @onealfa !!
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Lets go I love this promote good content and make LEO thrive will finance market impact.
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From your side, it cost nothing, but for him, it may give visibility to his underlying post. I appreciate your way of encouraging new users.
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What costs nothing is the reblog. And the vote.
For promotions - I will have to pay out of my own pocket.
But those few coins deserve to be sacrificed for a sacred cause ( and plus - burned)
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I have always liked your passion and drive to reward authors and your mission to distribute tokens far and wide.
I have something planned that will be revealed shortly and I actually think it goes very well in hand with your ideas too. The upcoming project or initiative is not something I will profit from myself, in fact, if something, it is likely to cost me tokens but I am willing to lose some for the greater good so to speak.
I can send you some more details on Discord if you want to hear more about it before I officially announce it?
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yes, sure, find me on a Discord, onealfa#7337
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When I started posting in Leo, I explored a bit what others are posting and I saw some articles with huge numbers of upvotes, comments and rewards. I wanted to interact with the community that's why I jumped into the comment section. It was there where I found out about Toruk, trust me it was immediately my goal that one of my articles gets that "Toruk was here" banner. It was a post about Telegram that got caught your eye at first!
You and your inciative has been a motivation for me to make better and better articles...seeing this articles it makes me even more motivated!
Thank you for making the Leo experience so much better!
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I'm glad to hear it works
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Toruk reminds me "Turok", a dinosaur videogame.
This will be very helpful, especially for new users with low reputation and number of followers. Sometimes it can be hard to start to build an audience. Greetings.
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Give me a few minutes and connect my @ claudio83.leo account to your trail. it is not long since my 100% upvote is worth 0.17 LEO but I hope to be of help and in any case I will continue with the Power Ups and over time my cure will grow 😏
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What an amazing initiative! Starting on Hive/Leo can be hard, I've been through that myself. My first posts had like 3-4 votes at max. Helping out new authors is a great way to build our community.
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This is indeed magnificent and an awesome initiative. It is good to know that we have people like you who also think about the new people on the platform who are struggling to be seen and nobody who will see Toruk visit his or her post and wouldn't be happy.
Great job and welldone. You are awesome.
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nice job on the 'toruk was here' graphic - i'm glad you found a good one to use ;)
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I'm glad someone likes it 😃
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sounds good for me
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Great idea. And in addition a motivation to create good content.
Cool action. Fishing for new good users is hard but if we manage to engage with them, they might feel included and keep on going. This shall be the main focus of the comments challenge.
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This is a good initiative as it brings more awareness to a new Leo user(kitten) post and give him/her more confidence to do more and engage more.
Love to be part of such curation trail once I have enough Leo to curate
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Onealfa the great! Your support goes a long way, thanks for your time and all you do to herald this project!
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I have also voted some pretty good new contents lately, imagine being laden with that responsibility. Im sure you enjoy manual curation, nevertheless thanks for the amazing job you do for leo, and its expansion as well.
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I think that is the right attitude to have and the only one. With your support you can help an account up off their knees onto their feet and I will look out for accounts myself even though I have 0.1 vote. They all add up.
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This is fantastic.
Excellent way to help new users in the community by giving them some visibility and helping to publicize their work.
I support this initiative 100% (although my opinion or my upvote is not very relevant)
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I love your initiatives dude ♡
I'm also trying to show some love to some newcomers when I can, but I don't have much of an impact. I'll keep doing that tho 🦁
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your awesome and a valued member of this community!
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I'm glad you brought this up. I created a curation account for manual curation and I even posted and asked the community how I should use it. I didn't even realize someone could automatically follow your vote. If I figure out how to do that I will. You are the most supportive of the rank and file here and I want to curate to encourage authors. That's the only way to grow the community. Even though my vote is currently only worth .2 leo I feel like it helps encourage people.
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The bot for curation following, which I use and would to everyone recommend is this
https://rewarding.app/
Maybe a bit hard to understand all, but once you get your hands on it - you see how powerful and flexible it is.
Lots of customization and tweaking possibilities
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I like the name & the concept!
$wine@onealfa,
Cheers~
0.100 WINECheers, @theguruasia You Successfully Shared With @onealfa.
You Earned 0.100 WINE As Curation Reward.
You Utilized 2/3 Successful Calls.
WINE Current Market Price : 0.000 HIVE
Initiative such as this are good for the platform and I think it will encourage more newbies and even old members not getting exposure on their quality posts to keep on writing.
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Regarding following your curation not, i would love to signify my interest.
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Impressed with the way you use your upvote based on the quality of the unique and good writing, this can indirectly improve the Leofinance community.
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That's great you are devoting so much time to manually curate/promote/encourage.
Pretty sure it's not easy to find the right balance to keep newcomers motivated and not getting used to get fed by papa lion.
Because sooner or later those little lions have to learn how to get rewarded without you :)
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Nice Initiative and very good GIF!
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Moves like this will be good for user retention and improving the quality of posts around here.
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Great initiative to look out for authors that are not well rewarded. Thanks to you LEO TORUK.
This sounds great too. It'll be a big booster to many under-rewarded posts. I'm already joining the TORUK Army!
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Finger crossed for your good initiative. For this kind of people - low or no LP (or HP) with good posts is very bad for Leofinance/Hive because of that don't usually stay here for long time.
Cheers.
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This is the best about the family that we care for and help people learn and grow here. I believe that we all should grow with the support of each other. I appreciate your efforts and such efforts make a big impact. Thanks for your initiative to support the community and people
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this is amazing and very appreciating thing that you are doing,
with out feeling jealous //
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It's always hard at the beginning, but users like you motivate us more and more to publish quality content and to keep giving the best.
Thank you for having you and Toruk. I wish you a very successful year!
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Congrats to the chosen!
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Nice one. It's nice to the see by
Bigger cats looking out for the kittens. A healthy relationship within the community.
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Today, I read @fajar.purnama post , but he mentioned in positive way . The person like you( @onealfa )can make the difference and bring more value to the community for sure. happy to be part of @onealfa army.
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