SteemSTEM Community Feedback: Proposals and Solutions

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Change
If there is one thing in life that is a constant, it is that things are ever changing. Crypto as a whole and STEEM specifically are certainly not of exception to the phenomenon of change. Prices fluctuate and active user-ship waxes and wanes along with broad market movements. Dealing with change, is a part of growing an organization or a community. The successful will be those who are flexible, nimble, able to adapt to what ever the world throws at them. SteemSTEM looks to be that way, and we feel that we have a community that welcomes changes, while still keeping our eyes pointing forward. We have all witnessed the recent decline in the value of STEEM, and we are sure you all also see the declining number of content creators on the Steem blockchain. Good times will surely return again, but in the meantime we must adapt. Ideas that were effective in the past may not work in the current climate. However the reverse is also true, things that were infeasible before may now become viable paths forward. Today’s weekly update will neither focus on the here and now, nor on recent developments (they are plentiful as for instance the development on steemstem.io continues). We instead look to use this update blog as a call for community input on all project-related issues recently raised on our discord server. We also present, for the first time, some proposed solutions and directions which we came up with. Whilst nothing of this has been implemented yet, the outcome and reactions to this blog are crucial to help us in setting priorities and finalizing what we should do. #
Curation
The first area of concern involves content curation and transparency of how posts are voted upon. In discussions with a small number of community members, it was made known that it is not the reward size that community members are unhappy with. Instead, it is lack of clarity around what defines the strength of a curated posts vote. While writing such reports takes time and energy, the amount of posts being currently supported is small. As a result curators have more free time, relatively to even 6 months prior. Therefore, we may have a way to correct this, by asking curators to work more… with some fun in return. Here is our proposal: - [1] Curators will get a new task: write a curation report for any post upvoted more than 50%, explaining why this post is a good post and the reasons behind the strong upvote. - [2] An algorithm will be designed by our one-man development team to track automatically those reports and assign them a score (on the basis of the level of details given in the report). - [3] The reports and scores will then be reviewed manually for a confirmation, manual curation being always yielding greater accuracy, by someone to whom this role will be assigned. - [4] The reports will be upvoted, as they are valuable for the SteemSTEM community, once the score will be confirmed. - [5] The best curator of the week will get a nice badge on his/her steemstem.io profile as well as an upvote-bonus for his/her own posts. Additionally, all-time tracking of these awards will also be maintained and made available on steemstem.io Moreover, due to the low volume of posts, we remove the rule enforcing a single author to get less than 3% of all SteemSTEM upvotes of the last two weeks (let’s simply reward the people still with us during these dark times). #
Engagement and Honor Members
We would also like to discuss engagement, or more specifically the lack of it. But before, let us focus on the SteemSTEM Honor Members a little bit. Honor Members are a class of trusted, motivated, high quality content creators who are symbolic of the very best of SteemSTEM. Out of that group mentors were chosen, whom users (new and old) could ask for help on the construction of content that better fit within the SteemSTEM guidelines. Our Honor Members and Mentors selflessly help others to create better content, and do this not for the rewards but because they see the potential of what we are trying to accomplish. They see where this community can go! In addition, a second subset of Honor Members were dedicated to track engagement and a third subset of them were focusing on dealing with the ‘questions-and-complaints‘ room of our discord server. However, the number of active users is in decline Steem wide, and with that the number of new content creators as well. So… a big part of the way that these respected community members were able to be involved, is just not currently available. Rather than sitting around and waiting for what once was to return, we propose a new direction and offer Honor Members new options to work with. In short: let us reward the good users instead of punishing the ones lacking of engagement. - [1] The Honour Members will be assigned the task of tracking and scoring the exemplary comments that are worthy to be rewarded. The information will be passed to our curation team for a SteemSTEM upvote. - [2] Our one-man development team will design a script tracking all rewarded comments and get some rankings. The top commenters will get an upvote-bonus for some their posts and comments, as well as a nice badge on their steemstem.io profile. There will be ‘levels’ to these badges and continued efforts will allow a user to improve their badge rank (and get more rewards). An all-time tracking will also be put in place. - [3] The Honour Members sub-categories will cease to exist. Every Honour Member will be asked to help how he/she can with the various missions. - [4] Both Honour Members and curators could optionally write reports to posts upvoted below 50%, explaining what could be improved. Those reports will be reviewed and upvoted. This will count for the “best curator” reward contest above-mentioned. This is where we stand for now. Feel free to let us know your thoughts. Are there things you would like to see added? How can we help you have more fun? Thank you for your feedback and shared opinions! The SteemSTEM management and public relation teams! Make sure to follow steemstem on steemstem.io, steemit, facebook, twitter, and instagram to always be up-to-date on our latest news and ideas. Please also consider to support the project by delegating to @steemstem for a ROI of 65% of our curation rewards (quick delegation links: 50SP | 100SP | 500SP | 1000SP | 5000SP | 10000SP).

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SteemSTEM Distilled #84

Welcome to the 84th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.

SteemSTEM aims to make Steem a better place for STEM, a task which we believe crucial for the long-term development of the blockchain. Our goals consist in invigorating and inspiring the minds of a community of STEM aficionados on Steem, targeting on the long-term the upgrade of SteemSTEM as a real platform for science communication. In the meantime, this goes through the support of quality, interesting and cutting-edge STEM content. For more details, a recent update on the SteemSTEM project is available here. If you want to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM discord server.
In order to support the best STEM content on Steem, our team scours the blockchain and read more than several hundreds of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 100 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 6 handpicked choices for the last week. ##
Monday - Wednesday
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### How to create infinite structures for Molecular Dynamics simulations?
Let’s open this fresh new week with a great lesson from @dexterdev! Learn how to create molecular dynamics simulations or as he more eloquently explains “how to set up a molecular dynamics system where molecular structures should extent in its periodic cells infinitely”.
### Trekking Tech - A Hoopla for Hiking
Did you train your brain enough above? Good! Let’s move on to a fantastic post by @gra, aiming to train our bodies too (the Greeks knew it well “a healthy mind in a healthy body” they said). Read on to find out more about the benefits and drawbacks of backpacking in a post full of amazing autumn color shots!

Wednesday - Friday


### A: Are stellarators alternatives to tokamaks?
@maticpecovnik (you know, the “fusion guy”) gives an excellent answer to stemq and explains very well what stellarators are and what makes them “awesome”!
### The Antifungal Efficacy of Salvia officinalis (sage), Origanum vulgare (oregano), and Citrus limon (lemon) essential oils [Experiment and Research Paper]
Next stop @alchemage’s brilliant post! Here we learn the antimicrobial and antifungal properties of natural essential oils and how they can offer us a great and healthier alternative instead of synthetic components.

Saturday - Sunday


### As crazy as it may sound, bananas can not reproduce
A post that will make you go bananas follows! @zen-art does some pretty amazing work here talking about monkeys’ (and ot only) favorite snack! Don’t miss reading this one!
### The Science of Superpowers - Superhuman abilities, Batman and real-life Daredevil!
This week will close with one of the many fantastic posts we’ve had from you, guys! @fancybrothers gives an excellent report on the science of superpowers! If you’re into superheroes, then don’t miss the chance to learn more scientific details about their “gifts”!

A few words about the nomination process


For some time, the editorial team behind this distilled series is made of a one-woman-team, @ruth-girl, and she chooses her favorite posts (potentially discussing with other curators and/or the management). Posts written by the SteemSTEM team are excluded from the nomination process.

Please do not be discouraged if you did not make it on this issue. We are picking up in total 6 posts a week out of more than 150-200. The chances are thus low ;) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing could be more effective.


Authors upvoted by the SteemSTEM team


In the spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @utopian-io, @curie, our delegators, our trailers and our manual curator supporters, we release every week the list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team.

From November 18 to 25, we rewarded 75 different authors who have written a total of 113 different articles. The 45 authors who received votes from @steemstem, potentially with either @utopian-io, @curie or both, are:

@abdulmath, @acont, @alchemage, @alexbiojs, @amart29, @amavi, @anaestrada12, @ancolie, @answerswithjoe, @anzha, @bettervision, @chappertron, @davidrhodes124, @dexterdev, @elvigia, @erickyoussif, @fancybrothers, @fingersik, @funmiakinpelu, @ikchris, @insight-out, @iptrucs, @ivymalifred, @jfermin70, @joelagbo, @josedelacruz, @lauch3d, @lupafilotaxia, @magicmonk, @marjanko, @markgritter, @masterwu, @maticpecovnik, @mgarrillogonzale, @mixology, @n4zrizulkafli, @neurosurgery, @nonzerosum, @okunlolayk, @rerere, @rifkan, @samminator, @sardrt, @scienceblocks, @slgamerguy, @soy-venezuelien, @sunkanmi02, @svemirac, @talmid, @tarazkp, @tensor, @ulewis, @wilmer14molina, @zen-art


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Interviewing the SteemSTEM Team! - @Katerinaramm


The SteemSTEM Team


What do they do? Well, their tasks include searching for new STEM authors, evaluating and reviewing STEM articles, conducting thorough searches for plagiarism and mentoring new authors, making sure that they have a high chance of getting community votes.


A community gets bigger and stronger as its members work together, get to know each other, learn from each other. Evolve. Flourish.


Introducing .. @Katerinaramm!

Time to switch positions and let the interviewer be interviewed. Many people are curious about how exactly she manages to do all the things she does. Being in a scientific environment we unfortunately must discount slowing down time and superposition, but let’s hear it from her.

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Q: What makes you passionate about SteemSTEM?

A: First of all thank you for taking the time to prepare all these very interesting questions for me. It does feel a bit strange to be the person of focus here, but I hope I can make it alive ‘til the end of this interview!

I have always been a huge fan of ongoing education & knowledge. The world around us evolves every second, in every possible way. We cannot just stay still. We need to learn and to take steps in any direction if we ever intend to become better and leave a safer, more humane world for our children.

You may wonder what the above has to do with SteemSTEM? Well, science is all about a continuous quest. A quest to find the truth. This is what makes me passionate about STEM >> SteemSTEM! I saw passion, originality, both in the articles but also in people who were/are devoting time to bring knowledge to the blockchain and thus making it a better place for everyone.


Q: How do you find the time to be so active?

A: This is flattering, thank you, but I do not think I have been so active the last few weeks.

A lot was going on in my personal & business life. Health issues, new projects at work… So all these do not really leave me with much spare time for doing the things I wish to do. However, I try to set priorities and stick to them. I admit that there are times when I have prioritized Steem over my work projects (but I am lucky to have flexible cooperators) so I manage. I hope that winter will be easier, with more spare time for me to do what I have planned.


Q: What do you enjoy doing the most on Steem?

A: Everything! I like answering questions, I enjoy discovering new content, I like providing new information to people who might need some extra help & wish to contribute, and I really love writing (but for this, little time is left :))

Steem is the only online social media entity that has helped broaden my horizons while making some true friends. I am forever grateful for that…


Q: What are you doing in real life?

A: I have a family that I take care of, I am working in the broad digital field aiming at bringing sales & happy customers to my clients while trying to introduce blockchain technology to the people (or other way round) and dreaming of continuing my studies soon.

I also wish to share that I have been practicing TKD for 2 years and I highly recommend to anyone reading this far to take some time off and find an activity they enjoy … and do it. (Get off the chair / couch / bed…! Your future self will thank you and love you more!)


Q: What do you enjoy reading about? What would you read about that’s not on SteemSTEM yet?

A: There are some excellent authors that I enjoy reading new and old articles!!! But one thing I really miss is computer science / blockchain / artificial intelligence related topics. I think that the posts should be somehow connected to the real world and make people think “Oh, I would love to know that, I was always wondering about it”! (I have to mention here that @Abigail-dantes is amazing in using her own stories when explaining difficult pshycological concepts)


Q: Can you remember the first article that you voted on that made you say “WOW”?

A: I enjoy reading so much SteemSTEM content when I have the time and there are so many authors who write the most amazing articles! I can mention a few on the top of my head (please sorry if I forget anyone) - suesa’s stories, alexander.alexis, abigail-dantes, samminator, ruth-girl, lemouth (even though I barely understand what he writes), mobbs, (I of course remember trumpman stories(!)), the debunk series by Egotheist, the amazing articles by scienceangel, mathowl, scienceblocks, and I am sure I am forgetting many others (apologies …)

But if I should absolutely remember one, It would be this one: Heat Your House Using Cats; Real Science Inside!


Q: Talking about SteemSTEM promotion, what was the most effective way of reaching out to people? What was the funniest fail?

A: I think that at the moment the most effective way of reaching out is when we see genuine, original posts combined with the author’s personal touch & point of view. This usually means that the writer is not looking for rewards, but is writing for the joy of it and will surely be happy to find a community with like-minded people from all over the world! (SteemSTEM)

Funniest fail … I do not remember any funny ones at the moment, sorry!


Q: Do you have any personal projects or any plans regarding Steem?

A: I wish to find the time for prioritizing my projects and then work on them :)

Currently I am:

  • Assisting in the SteemSTEM public relations team & honor members team, on-boarding new members and helping with questions

  • Helping bringing education closer to the Steem people, via the official account of the Master in Digital Currencies by the University of Nicosia (@mscdigital)

  • Curating for the Greek Community @greek-trail and supporting Greeks

  • A proud member of the @aristotle.team - Greek Translation Team, with great Language Managers, @ruth-girl, @dimitrisp and the most amazing team (@lordneroo & @trumpman ) (powered by @utopian-io & @davinci.witness)

  • Moderating and helping with writing informative content about the new fitness app @actifit

  • Occasionally contributing for @utopian-io at the blog & tutorial category


Q: Apart from reading your in-depth tutorials, what would you recommend to the new SteemSTEM bloggers?

A: I recommend to anyone joining steem(it) and SteemSTEM…

  • Please do not think you know it all. Be humble, open your mind to new things and listen to what the more experienced users have to suggest.

  • Make sure you have clear expectations. It is ok to be here just for fun, it is even ok to be here for making money. However it is important to be honest, straightforward and modest. If you are here to stay, if you are here to cheat, if you are here to lie -> This will be revealed.

(Not sure if some of these articles would be useful to anyone reading this?)


Q: What would you do if you got 100k (one hundred thousand) Steem tomorrow? How would it change your activity, what would you support and how?

A: Highly hypothetical questions result to extreme hypothetical answers… And since it ain’t happening, I do not wish to put much thought to it. Sorry to disappoint you :)

It is best to have a new goal and to create the opportunities / path towards it.


Thanks a lot for your responses, Katerinaramm

Make sure to follow steemstem on steemstem.io, steemit, facebook, twitter, and instagram to always be up-to-date on our latest news and ideas.

Please also consider to support the project by delegating to @steemstem for a ROI of 65% of our curation rewards (quick delegation links: 50SP | 100SP | 500SP | 1000SP | 5000SP | 10000SP).

Read our latest Distilled & news || Vote for the SteemSTEM Witness || Visit our new home steemstem.io


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SteemSTEM Distilled #83

Welcome to the 83rd issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.

SteemSTEM aims to make Steem a better place for STEM, a task which we believe crucial for the long-term development of the blockchain. Our goals consist in invigorating and inspiring the minds of a community of STEM aficionados on Steem, targeting on the long-term the upgrade of SteemSTEM as a real platform for science communication. In the meantime, this goes through the support of quality, interesting and cutting-edge STEM content. For more details, a recent update on the SteemSTEM project is available here. If you want to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM discord server.
In order to support the best STEM content on Steem, our team scours the blockchain and read more than several hundreds of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 100 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 6 handpicked choices for the last week. ##
Monday - Wednesday
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### A Simple Step toward Pharmacology: Let us Find out How the Drugs Work
A new week begins with a girl who has written an amazing piece on pharmacology! @anasav explains very well how drugs work in a pleasant writing style!
### A probability paradox from @leiyu
And from drugs to playing cards with @markgritter and his meeting with a probability paradox. If you like to get your brain to work, then this is a post you’ll definitely enjoy!

Wednesday - Friday


### Comet Wirtanen Update
Do you remember comet Wirtanen? No? Come on, @terrylovejoy told us so many facts about it almost a month ago and here we give you some fresh shots of his attempt to “catch” it! Check his post out for more astrophotography material!
### Creating a water drop photograph timer - LCD, Menus and Buttons (Part 3)
Some more photography is coming your way and @markangeltrueman explains how to make a photograph timer. It’s a useful and well-written post you will surely like!

Saturday - Sunday


### Debunking Shits About Evolution - Episode 5 [Induced Adaptation And Meta-Intelligence]
@samminator’s awesome Evolution Debunking series continues and the 5th part is out already! Don’t miss another amazing piece on myths about evolution!
### Animal Intelligence – Insect Edition
And for the end we saved you a post with fantastic macro insect shots and cool facts about insect intelligence! @gabebuckley has done a very good job in this piece and you should have a look at it!

A few words about the nomination process


For some time, the editorial team behind this distilled series is made of a one-woman-team, @ruth-girl, and she chooses her favorite posts (potentially discussing with other curators and/or the management). Posts written by the SteemSTEM team are excluded from the nomination process.

Please do not be discouraged if you did not make it on this issue. We are picking up in total 6 posts a week out of more than 150-200. The chances are thus low ;) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing could be more effective.


Authors upvoted by the SteemSTEM team


In the spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @utopian-io, @curie, our delegators, our trailers and our manual curator supporters, we release every week the list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team.

From November 11 to 18, we rewarded 76 different authors who have written a total of 1 different articles. The 51 authors who received votes from @steemstem, potentially with either @utopian-io, @curie or both, are:

@abdulmath, @abigail-dantes, @abumaryam, @adewumi, @agmoore, @alexaivytorres, @answerswithjoe, @chappertron, @cryptoitaly, @damzxyno, @discovery-it, @djredimi2, @drifter1, @elvigia, @emiliomoron, @eniolw, @erh.germany, @fancybrothers, @felixrodriguez, @fran.frey, @germanmontero, @hellfire-labs, @iptrucs, @iradyjr, @javier.dejuan, @jorgemora17, @josedelacruz, @lordneroo, @lupafilotaxia, @magicmonk, @marjanko, @masterwu, @maticpecovnik, @miroslavrc, @moncia90, @neurosurgery, @noobsin, @rbalzan79, @reconnectnature, @reinaseq, @rifkan, @samminator, @sardrt, @sargoon, @scienceblocks, @somebuttstuff, @soy-venezuelien, @svemirac, @tensor, @tomastonyperez, @tychoxi, @valth, @viannis, @wilmer14molina, @yhubi, @yreudy, @zen-art, @zoricatech


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All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities.



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Interviewing the SteemSTEM Curators - @mathowl

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The Curators of SteemSTEM
What do they do? Well, their tasks include searching for new STEM authors, evaluating and reviewing STEM articles, conducting thorough searches for plagiarism and they are the people who will suggest whether or not a STEM article has to be upvoted and supported by @steemstem. — A community gets bigger and stronger as its members work together, get to know each other, learn from each other. Evolve. Flourish. — ######
Introducing .. @mathowl!
— Maybe you have seen his googlyeyes posts, perhaps you have been awarded a scientific owl in the past? Maybe you have even read his colorful math posts and have since then grown a deep desire and lust for math (!) Whatever the case is, his humor has certainly been one the of the first thing one notices, right from the beginning. @MathOwl would you still like him if he was called chin-chill math or MathBunny? has come to Steem to stir the waters! In this post @mathowl is interviewed by @katerinaramm! If you have any extra questions or thoughts, feel free to let someone from the PR team know! ##
Let’s shed some light!
Q - Hi Mathowl, thank you for taking the time to reply to our questions! Let us know a few things about yourself: What is your real (first) name? What do you do, where are you from, how long have you been on Steem and what are your hobbies? A - Hi Kat! Thanks for the opportunity. Currently, I am still a Mathematics PhD student but in about two months I can scrap the student part. My ethnicity is mixed; Dutch-Malaysian-Chinese, and my Dutch name is Thomas. I have been on Steem about a year. My hobbies are playing piano, juggling, programming, petting furry animals and dropping puns. Unfortunately, I don’t have a good o-pun-ning pun.Q - How long have you been a curator for SteemSTEM? A - I guess for about 8 monthsQ - How and when did it all start? A - I started with some scientific curation of myself using my owl stickers, then I became an honor member and when there was a job-opening on the curation team I slipped in.Q - How often do you curate? A - The last month I haven’t been so active since I am busy job hunting but I do check the curation channel everyday.Q - What is the first thing that you take into consideration when curating? A - Uniqueness and community impact. Sharing unique information which can be absorbed by the community is the pillar of any form of media. Within the framework of STEM this unique information does not necessarily have to be scientific facts but it can also be an explanation style, interpretation etc.Q - Tell us something that really gives you a great first impression when you see a SteemSTEM post. (It could have to do with the chosen topic, images, structure etc) A - When I click on a post I immediately check citations and copyright licenses. So if you get those right you get in the green with me.Q - Do you have a favorite scientific topic that you have fun reading and reviewing over any others? A - I do like to read posts about math on the frontiers. But the last few months there has not been much activity in this field.Q - Tell us something that really makes you disappointed or angry when you see a SteemSTEM post. (It could have to do with the chosen topic, images, structure etc) A - Plagiarism, copy/paste, tag-abuse; pretty much any type of abuse. For math posts I get unhappy if they apply empirical thinking to mathematics. Other than that there is not much that gets my blood pumping.Q - What would be your advice to both the old and new authors who wish to join SteemSTEM but do not know where to start? A - If you don’t know what to write about, write about what you like then your audience is bounded from below by one.Q - If you could interview anyone from SteemSTEM, who would it be and ask him/her one question now? A - It would probably be you! And I would want to ask you how you find the time to do so much for SteemSTEM.Q - What does Mathematics mean to you? A - It is a form of art where the requirement is truth and goal is beauty.Q - Would you like to share with us more info about your PhD? A - My PhD concerns modelling single celled fungi growth. On first glance this might seem very biological but modelling this type of growth requires more math than biology. I constructed governing equations for specific fungi cell and then validated that these describe physical growth using rigorous numerics. This means that I created a program which performs mathematical proofs. The reason why these tools are necessary is that an ordinary program can make mistakes when solving equations. In my case if the computer even makes a small mistake then this might mean that the solution I get is very wrong. So a proof-based system is necessary to show the validity of the model.
Q - Is there a great Mathematician that you really admire? And Why? A - In the class of living mathematicians it is John Milnor. In the olden days mathematicians obtained great results in different mathematical research areas. John Milnor is the last of this generation. Connecting different branches of mathematics used to be a very important goal in mathematics but somehow nowadays they are driven to work on very specialised topics which do not add much to the big picture.Q - When you have children, how do you plan to make your kids love math? A - Monty hall problem, but by replacing the car by candy and the goat by doing the dishes :D —- Q - If you could have any job in the world, what would you choose? A - Full-time mathematics researcher. Unfortunately, this job does not really exist since even at the top of academic food chain you are not spending most of your work hours on doing research. So I am really interested in a job where I can use interesting mathematics everyday.Q - Would you like to tell us what other projects you support besides SteemSTEM? A - I am a member of Steemflagrewards. It is a project which rewards Steemians for flagging abuse. If you want to get rewarded for pasting googly eyes on random objects you should join the Googlyeyes project by the high-googly priest Fraenk. Another great project by Fraenk is Dustbunny which upvotes comments below the dust-threshold to above the dust-threshold. It is great for low SP steemians. In actual fact, big fish at steemSTEM are supporting Dustbunny with generous delegations (JTM, Suesa)Q - Could you describe in as few words as possible what science means to you? A - Being able to predict —- Q - What is your wish for SteemSTEM? A - To become a form of media known to the general public.Q - Where do you see yourself in 5 years? A - Doing cool mathematics :o)
Thank You MathOwl!
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SteemSTEM Weekly Update - Week #46

New and improved steemstem.io, reaching out for Public Domain Images, a case to vote for @stem.witness, the Witness of Knowledge and More Interviews with the Curators!


It’s been a jam-packed few weeks! The development team has been working hard to release the new SteemSTEM app version, the curators have been tirelessly reviewing new posts by prominent STEM authors, our new @stem.witness is already included in the top 100 witnesses and interviews with our curators are continuing, receiving great interest by all of you! updates2.jpg This bi-weekly blog is shared with you in our efforts to bring the community closer together with the goal of keeping you updated about what is going on behind and in front of the scenes! ###
Updated Version of Steemstem.io app!
—- Our new open source app, steemstem.io was released one month ago and we have received great support and feedback from everyone who tried it out! SteemSTEM new app aims to become a valuable tool with which STEM lovers and researchers will be able to communicate and share information all around the globe. On steemstem.io, visitors will be able to see only posts that will be approved by our dedicated curators. Quality filters are applied that users can of course remove with a click. The users can also filter the posts depending on language or specific category of their interest (math, physics, etc.) In the most recent update, the users can now create posts directly by logging in (via steemconnect) to steemstem.io ! You can also create more than one draft and publish them at will. A few display bugs have been fixed and we are already working on new features such as post editing, adding draft preview and adding the possibility of including beneficiaries. More information about the v0.2 of the app can be found here and there (for the technical changes). #### Moreover, v0.2.2 has been deployed this morning, and it includes in particular post edition! — ###
Public Domain Images
— Some of the difficulties encountered by many STEM authors was finding specific scientific images released to the public domain. Images are very important for constructing a more pleasantly readable post and conveying a message in an easier way. For those who may not understand what the issue is all about, please take a few moments to read the guidelines on copyright standards about images. So if you wish, take some time to visit SteemSTEM’s Repository of Public Domain Images here and feel free to reach to us on discord if you wish to contribute or for any queries. —– ###
Making a Case to Vote for a Witness of Knowledge, @stem.witness
— Many Steem users have little knowledge of what a witness is, what they do, and why it is important to vote for them. @mobbs has crafted an informational post regarding what people may want from their witnesses. Witnesses should be contributing to the community. They should be able to make rational decisions and most of all: ######
Witnesses should be able to make a difference
All the above and much more to be announced soon are what makes @stem.witness one of the most promising witnesses deserving of our support. Take some time and visit the latest post by @mobbs, in order to understand more about why @stem.witness is making a difference. — ###
More Interviews!
— Our Interviews with the Curators have brought those all-mighty Steem users before you. They have revealed their curation secrets and have provided useful advice about what to do and what to avoid in order to become a successful STEM author! Our latest interview provided insight and a few different approaches about what plagiarism is. Feel free to visit the link and learn more about our curator @alexs1320 here and what he had to say to us! You can also check out the interview of @ruth-girl here and click here where you will find the interview of @aboutcoolscience! —- ###
A Sneak Peak to the Upcoming News
More updates, upcoming feature at steemstem io v0.3 to be deployed in a few days (with post editing as a kwey novel feature) and a new interview is in the making!
Stay Tuned!
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Bonus News - For more Technical Information …!
— If you are interested in the more technical aspect of the steemstem.io development, you can follow the alt-account of @lemouth, @lemouth-dev. The first update can be found here for more technical details about the app’s features. —- —- #####
Have you voted for steemSTEM Witness?
—- This concludes our weekly news update, we hope you enjoyed it and learnt something new! Make sure to follow steemstem on steemstem.io, steemit, facebook, twitter, and instagram to always be up-to-date on our latest news and ideas. Please also consider to support the project by delegating to @steemstem for a ROI of 65% of our curation rewards (quick delegation links: 50SP | 100SP | 500SP | 1000SP | 5000SP | 10000SP). We are always on the lookout for new scientific articles from all types of authors, so even if you are not a proven researcher, but you like engaging in science yourself, be sure to reach out to us!

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