[My own curating initiative]

Why am I curating?

I asked myself that same question. The thing I enjoy most about my experience since I signed onto Steemit, 11 months ago, is the feeling of community I have here. It is not like Facebook. When I scroll through FB I feel like I just wasted my time over one or two "good-to-know" posts. When I scroll through my feed on Steemit, however, I feel engaged by more than just one post. Several posts will catch my interest, and I find it easy to find something I want to read or look at and is deserving of an upvote.

Considering I have limited amount of voting power, it is important to me to use my upvotes constructively.

Now that I have a significant amount of vests (~3.4mv) I am able to curate much more than ever before, using my voting power wisely all the time. When I realized that I was posting a lot but always had a lot of voting power leftover I wondered to myself how important was it to use it up? And what level was best to keep it at, or if that mattered. Then I read one of @thecryptofiend's posts about how when you have more vests you do better to start switching from posting to curating. I thought about that. Then I forgot about that. Recently, I realized maybe there was something to it.

I should at least spread around my goodwill and voting cheer...

I thought to myself. Why waste all that voting power when I could be making people's lives better and possibly make a little more steem, too. I had reviewed other user's accounts "curation rewards" and compared them to their "author rewards" as a study over months. I found that the majority of large, vest-holding artists (whom I aspired to be like) made only minimal curation rewards. @thecryptofiend, however, was making a decent amount of steem with curation rewards, even though their author rewards far exceeded them, more than other users. And look how great they are doing now.

Jul 24, 2017 @thecryptofiend

Estimated curation rewards last week: 82.157 STEEM POWER
Estimated author rewards last week: 261.710 STEEM POWER, 329.675 SBD
"Proposal to turn minnows into whales" by @thecryptofiend

My Pledge

I want to be a whale someday, too. And, it's not just that. I want to immerse myself in the poetry community. I want to use my voting power wisely to foster my passion for poetry, here on Steemit. I want to reward my fellow poets for joining in the Poetry Dice Contest and for putting themselves out there and taking a risk. Not only do I upvote poetry I like, but I pledge to use my 100% upvote and resteem on poets who add the "onehumanbasket" tag to their posts.

One Human Basket - Motto

This is because we are all one big family, here on Steemit. As my Mom says,

When we are not doing "this," what we are doing is limitless..."

"this" > being alive as humans...

I enjoy reading your posts and I want to give back to my community. I also enjoy posting myself and have several projects I am working on, including poetry, art and photography. For a back log of archived posts, click here. Hoping to post more weekly top picks soon. I did not have enough time last week to craft one.

What have I done to curate so far?

Jul 1- Jul 8 Weekly Top Picks
Midweek Top 15
End of the Week Top 15
The weekly contest PDC3K payout [5 STEEM + 3 STEEM + 1 STEEM = 9 STEEM]
Winners of Week 1 PDC3K
Winner’s - Week 2 PDC3K
Winner Announcement Week 3 PDC3K
Upvote and resteem all the posts I can

"One Human Basket" tag use

Use the "onehumanbasket" tag to ensure my 100% upvote:

Use the tag "onehumanbasket" on photography, art or other types of posts besides poetry. Posts using both "poetry" and "onehumanbasket," however, will remain higher priority since I wish to curate the poetry community specifically.
I also host a weekly poetry dice contest. Official entries to the Poetry Dice Challenge 3000 (PDC3K) will have the highest priority vote. Please only use the "poetrydice" tag for official entries to the contest. Abusers will be flagged.
I also curate posts using just the "poetry” tag.
Any left-over voting power gets used for highly selective posts that I hope contribute to the "onehumanbasket" feel. (This includes nonsensical YouTube videos and my own posts.)

***Please only use the “poetrydice” tag for official entries to the contest! 👮🏿‍

I will be flagging any user who intentionally misuses this tag.
Flagging a post can remove rewards and make this material less visible. Some common reasons to flag:

Disagreement on rewards
Fraud or Plagiarism
Hate Speech or Internet Trolling
Intentional miscategorized content or Spam

My tagline

I curate poetry and posts with the tag #onehumanbasket
Find out more in the NEW Poetry Dice Challenge
(I am not a 🤖)

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What is the 'One Human Basket'? > (reference post)