OCD Curation: the best posts and authors of last week | Handmade mandolins & Sacred grounds
Are you still recovering from the huge news @ocdb (part of @ocd) brought you last week? No? Then you must not have read it! @ocdb, the 'distribution bot for whitelisted users' is not a bot anymore - no, instead, @ocdb is doing manual curation - as was always the wish as that's what @ocd stands for!
I'd urge you to read the short announcement or go directly to the detailed announcement to get up to date. But please don't forget to come back after reading, as the following five posts are just as much worthy of your attention! Five Steemians I found outdid themselves or were just not yet discovered by @ocd yet. Give them an upvote and/or a follow!
Cheers,
#NewSteemArrived
My selection of posts from last week:
Under the branches of a Willow Tree in the city of Balta (Odessa Region) is a monument that remembers soldiers that died on Afghan ground. The pictures of this monument are showing us a place in the world that you might have never visited before, remembering a war in a country that most of us didn't ever see either. Thanks for sharing @jurgan!
Read more: Monument to the Afghans in the city of Balta (Odessa region)
In this post @WildHomesteading explains why trails are so important if you're building a garden. The nature trails are both practical but also meant to make the garden a welcoming place to kids and visitors. In the end, the garden has wide variety of functions as do their paths and (often later) nature trails. I'll never look at trails the same way again!
Read more: Why I Build Trails All Over my Wild Homestead
Wow! This talented Steemian makes string instruments, like this Mandolin. Created from offcuts scavenged from local carpenters in the area of Galilee where @stillgideon lives this is a true piece of art. Offcuts from a table, from a roof beam, from a door... All turned into a gorgeous instrument someone can create music with. If that isn't a musical piece with a story I don't know what else is.
Read more: 'Carpenters of Galilee' - This unique handcarved Mandolin is made entirely from offcuts!
@balticbadger is writing a touching story about how he lived in the USA for years, even fought their wars, but felt something was 'missing'. He felt this most clearly when looking at the sites of the Native people from America. He went back to his ancestral homelands in Northern Europe where he is able to visit the sacred sites his ancestors lived - and explains how these lands connect with him although most traces have been erased from memory.
Read more: Today I Visited My Ancestors’ Burial Mounds
@minsoe is writing a backlog for the family travels with a toddler to Japan past January. This episode is about the visit to Kyoto - a very very touristic place and although they were warned it was only when they saw the crowds they decided to change plans. Getting outside of the city, visiting other places like a castle, it still looks like amazing traveling. But be warned: Japanese people don't stand up for (people with) kids, so traveling with a toddler is certainly a challenge!
Read more: obsessed with japan - hida folk village, kyoto, hakodate, sapporo, tokyo - 2
The changes from HF21/22 appear to be working really well so far. It is great to see vote selling services moving towards curating. It will be interesting to see what happens to delegation. Will the new style curation services attract more SP than the old Steem bid bots? It will be interesting to compare returns. It will take a few months before we can make any meaningful comparisons.
Anyway, best of luck with what you are doing.
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I hope curation services, especially those with manual curators like @ocd/@ocdb and @curangel and @c-squared get most of the delegations indeed! My curation returns from manual curating are the expected (and this optimal) 48-50% - so that's not bad. I actually make a decent amount of STEEM curating now, didn't happen before :-)
Hope you'll see some positive results as well!
I choose to curate content myself. So far the returns on curating have been good. I haven't made a close comparison between before and after the hardfork but I think my curation rewards have at least doubled and that's not counting what I'm getting from the tribes. I think a lot has to do with the rewards being returned from downvotes.
Thank you so much for curating my post! It is an honor and I really like their new way of doing this. I know it will help spotlight under-appreciated Steemians! Thanks again!
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No, you're a curation trail! Since I can't afford to waste any voting power now, and I enjoyed the @curie votes I received recently, I started setting curation trails in Steemauto. It seemed more fun to follow persons than dedicated trails, so I started following you and others whose judgment I trust, after cancelling direct automatic votes.
Ha! That's so cool :D Thanks @edb for putting that trust in me! Following people instead of trails is actually a great idea, and that way you could even add/remove people from time to time to spread the vote even further. Awesome. Thanks again!
Oh so that's why I received OCDB votes last week somewhere.. To be honest, I was a bit freaked out seeing these votes, although I was happy with them, I also assumed this was going to make people downvote the posts..
I'm glad to see these positive changes on Steemit, I didn't expect that to happen so quickly to be honest. :)