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Today we publish what users have been asking for so long. Steepshot announces power delegation program.

Power delegation & curation strategy

We encourage all power delegation sponsors to participate in our initiative. The delegated power will be used to improve content curation and support Steepshot users that follow our Guidelines while posting their content.

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How do we plan to distribute rewards to sponsors?

RewardDistributionWhen distributed
5% beneficiary reward from all the author rewards on Steepshot platformDistributed among sponsors proportional to the amount of delegated Steem Power@steepshot.pay will constantly power down and spread beneficiary rewards to sponsors every week

What's the reasoning behind this initiative?

Here's a list of issues that power delegation is aimed to solve in Steepshot.

Issue 1. Underestimated content

Some users, especially beginners, leave the network not getting enough likes despite they post very high quality content. This is not fair enough and needs to be corrected.

Issue 2. Plagiarism

Some users just post duplicated content created by others not necessarily in Steepshot. Steem has build-in downvote mechanics, but mostly those mechanics don't work in practice because, unfortunately, very few people are searching for the image on the net during curation just to double check for plagiarism. Discouraging those users by simply giving more rewards to others will increase the value of both Steem blockchain and Steepshot.

Issue 3. Spam

Some users are spamming. Just one example of this is the user that was posting hundreds of unicolored pictures per day for all existing color hex codes (like #5d34ef) somehow earning a few cents per image without anyone downvoting those images. Even though it increases the number of blockchain transactions, tolerating spam won't bring any value to Steem and Steepshot.

Fortunately, we can see a few approaches in solving those issues.

Manual curation

With this approach @steepshot and the community just browse through all the content and manually put upvotes. It does not look scalable as the amount of posts is continuously growing.

Automated upvotes

With this approach @steepshot runs a bot and upvotes everything that was posted on Steepshot. We already tried this approach and the experiment clearly showed that it is not wise to give out rewards to everyone as people start to violate the Guidelines just to get an upvote much more often.

Semi-automated process

We extract the information about the image that could be identified automatically and provide it to all the curators while also using it while making decisions for upvotes from @steepshot account with the delegated power.

What image parameters could possibly be tracked?

  • NSFW rate. Our team has presented NSFW Bot at SteemFest 2017 and that could be used for tracking NSFW content which is not tagged appropriately.
  • Plagiarism tracking inside Steepshot. IPFS hash of each image could be compared to those already uploaded through Steepshot to make sure the image is unique in Steepshot.
  • Plagiarism tracking outside of Steepshot. External image databases could be checked in order to find other occurrences of the image on the net. Some of the existing Steem bots are already doing that.

We have started designing a panel that will allow Steepshot community of curators to use the data of automatic monitoring of the uploaded content. That panel is going to show the level of compliance with those parameters and our Guidelines in terms of each separate criteria to simplify tracking the content that should be supported by @steepshot and the community.

Upvotes from @steepshot

We will separate upvote transactions into two parts: 1) manual curation and 2) automated upvotes.

Since at first the panel will track a limited amount of information, it will distribute a relatively small amount of upvotes automatically. With the growth of the quality of the automatic algorithm the amount of automatic transactions will grow.

The idea behind automatic curation is to ensure that all users who do not violate the rules have a chance to get noticed and have a good experience of using Steepshot.

The idea behind manual curation is that algorithms cannot track everything and curators that follow the Guidelines could often make better decisions than an automated bot.

Curation - Who receives upvotes

Priority list looks like this:

  1. Compliance with the Guidelines
  2. New users, as we help to boost best quality authors faster
  3. Less than a fixed number of photos upvoted by Steepshot
  • We think some fixed number of upvotes from Steepshot at the beginning will be a good way to boost new accounts and users will be able to find their fans and start earning their own money on their own.
  • We expect that our curation rules can help Steepshot get many more Steem users on board and stay here comfortably with significant profit.

Stages

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Before - After

The image on the left shows the "hot" feed, as we can often see it on a weekday. On the right, the "hot" feed, which now looks almost like this on Friday evening.

Thanks to the chosen strategy we expect that we will be able to achieve such a high quality feed rather quickly after receiving the first delegations from sponsors.

Why to delegate?

Benefits

  1. Sponsors get unbelievable benefits.
  2. The delegated power will help us improve the image quality in Steepshot.
  3. Sponsors are encouraging more visual content on Steem.

Experience

  1. Steepshot is the first visual content platform on Steem blockchain.
  2. The developers have proved their consistency and adherence to the basics of decentralization.
  3. At the moment, it is the only project on Steem blockchain, which is presented simultaneously on 2 platforms: a web browser and mobile devices (Android is available, iOS is being prepared for release).

Stats

Steepshot is a fast-growing Steem-based project and is used by people from over 150 countries.

Delegate!

Delegate Steem Power (SP) to @steepshot by clicking one of the following links: 100 SP, 1000 SP, 10000 SP or any other amount.

Updated

We already have the first 10 delegates! Thank you all.
So, we can say that the process is running.



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I have been making note of the projects I want to give delegation to when the time is right and this is one of them. I am currently waiting for access to SteemConnect via their website. I would do this now, however I feel like waiting a bit until SteemConnect is fully operational and I can gather some more info on how exactly SteemConnect works with my keys. Also I am looking forward to the iOS application @steepshot. Any idea when we will be able to access Steepshot on our iPhones?

Hello. Sounds great! BTW appreciate your long-time support.

  1. SC. We are in the process of implementing SteemConnect as we said earlier.
  2. iOS. The app is ready. We can send it for testing to everyone interested.
    In the next few days we are going to try to publish for approval in Appstore. Moreover, we have increased the number of mobile developers. Perhaps there will not be a quick start on IOS (it all depends on Apple). However, after the first release, we expect rapid development progress.

@steepshot, I think you make steem more accessible, and encourage new users...

Thanks. We hope so.

Yup. The snapchat style element, with the added bonus of (potentially) getting paid will do dividends to the steemit community. You should create a SMT (smart media token) when they are released to the world...

Thank you for the reply @steepshot looking forward to all of this. Do you have a rough date on when you are going to publish the app? - I will keep my eyes open for a post regarding that.

We're preparing to launch closed beta testing very soon.
Could you share your email with us here, by our official email (steepshot.org@gmail.com) or in our Discord channel (https://discord.gg/9QsYr9f)?

Definitely project to check out.

Played with their android app... Definitely can congratulate guys on making a good product. Very beautiful UI and comfortable to use in general. 10 out of 10. Curious to see how they will improve.

#GiveThemSomePower <3

Isn't SteemConnect an official Steemit app? I'm just wondering what sort of checks you're going to do on it.

Thanks

Cg

Thanks for the work you're doing with @haejin. So many of us really super appreciate it!

Awesome! Excited to see this materialize.

this is a great opportunity and good steep-ahead..

You guys created an awesome plattform. I only posted one image to test it by now, but I think it is one of the "Killer-Apps" that started to emerge on steem recently. Others being dtube, dsound, dmania etc....

So yeah, I will delegate some steem power to you just for the good cause. (Not that 1 SP would be relevant, but every little bit counts, doesn´t it?

Made a review of the Telegram Bot! Made some sugestions (just two of them ;) ) Glad you make another tool more
https://steemit.com/steepshot/@juanmiguelsalas/review-of-the-bot-for-telegram-of-the-steepshot-application-the-fastest-way-to-post-a-photo-on-steem-s-blockchain

Hi. Our team thanks you for such a detailed report. Upvoted and resteemed.

Thanks a lot! Was a pleasure to do it ( I will be using it a lot ;)

Pd: I am just waiting for the iOs app to start to talk and promote more the app here in Berlin, everybody have iPhone in this city ... and me too ;)

Soon )

That's really great, I am using @steepshot from its start but these things will make it much more powerful and more user-friendly.

Absolutely right it much more powerful and more user-friendly. I want to thank you once again for your support, especially now that I'm aware of the numbers. Congratulations on the growth as well.

Why don't Steepshot images appear on Twitter when I post a link?

Also, will there soon be a way to embed a Steepshot post on another site, as we can do with an Instagram post?

Yes. It's a big issue. Still working to solve.
Embedding feature is in progress of developement too.

This is a Great move, I hope more people support by delegating ! I was a silent user on steemit almost for 5 month's untill Steepshot was launched. I get more response/followers from Steepshot when I post my photographs than when I post it on Steemit. Frankly I feel this is one of the best Steem based application which has huge potential (instagram killer)

This is great news and it will definitely encourage me to use it more. I'm glad that Steepshot is taking copyrights seriously and implementing measures to discourage infringement.

I will continue to tell others about it on Twitter.

Yes, copyrights, this is what we are very much immersed in. These tasks are quite complecated, and we are strongly motivated to solve them somehow in the nerarest future and the best way we can in a long run.

Awesome... Hope You really get a lot more SP delegation. I know it is not a lot but I have just delegated 100 SP I hope it is helpful :D

You are welcome. My pleasure to support ❤

great idea to incentivize sponsors and good explanation :-)

thumbs up to you guys, amazing work!