Curatorial Imagination Generated from Rewarding USDT

At the end of October, I was invited to participate in the USDT reward activity in Matt City, so I slowly began to form my own reward habit. Although all major platforms have the function of rewarding, in fact, I have not deliberately rewarded with real money, so the frequency is very low.

The budget for tipping this week is 5 USDT. When I was gearing up and wanted to try out this new feature quickly, I encountered a question: what kind of articles do I want to reward?

For me, tipping an article can mean four different things:

1. This article is very useful to me
2. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article
3. I want to support this author to continue producing
4. I wish articles like this would appear more in the Matt City community

In my mind, I turned these four meanings into four reward standards. Matt City for me is a place where I can learn a lot about blockchain and a community where I can enjoy reading in my spare time. I should also participate in such a tip from the perspective of a reader and a member of the community.

In one week, I tipped 7 articles, ranging from 0.2 USDT to 1 USDT.

4 of the articles are about the blockchain community, and 3 are about creative writing. Some articles I read from the community homepage, and some articles I actively searched for in the search bar.

When looking for what I want to read, I will search for some articles from a year or two ago, which are really interesting, but I am a little hesitant to know whether it is appropriate to reward now, because the author seems to be no longer active in Matt. However, I would also imagine: What would it feel like if an article written by the creator a year or two ago is now being read and rewarded? And I also feel that the Internet is a space for discussion across time and space: meaningful content should not be buried over time.

Having set a goal and determining the reward amount is still not a simple matter. I find it difficult to have a uniform standard to measure the value of an article. Rather than pondering how much it is worth, the amount I give depends on my emotional experience.

(When I use the clapping function of Matt City, I also feel a little rewarding. Although I am not giving a direct monetary appreciation, I know that the clapping I give may eventually be converted into likecoin rewards .And this reward is determined by the machine for me, a purely rational reward with a single purpose)

In the process of tipping for a few days, I will check my transaction from time to time and want to compare it before and after. But I found that even if I tipped within a week, I would not remember which articles I tipped before and how much it was. Of course, I don't remember the reason for the reward. Therefore, for me, it is not easy to reward articles qualitatively and quantitatively, and it is very difficult to be fair and just.

When looking at my transaction history, I suddenly had an idea: if I display my reward record and erase the amount, can it become my own curatorial record?

If we want to figure out whether the idea is feasible, we must first define what curation is. I spoke my thoughts in the dDAO community and sparked a lot of discussion about curation.

In fact, the popularity of the Matt City community. Rewarding articles and making them popular can also be understood as a kind of community curation experience. But the 'curation' atmosphere I feel in the popular is relatively small, but the home page is a 'article selection' tool. Perhaps curation should be a recombination of information, which is a kind of creation in itself; if there is no creation, it is just a display space with a timeline function, and it cannot be called a curatorial space.

In the wider web3 context, curation has many forms: spotlight selection in mirror, and behavior of individual users when collecting mirror articles; Writing NFT function launched by likerland; behavior of collect post in Lens protocol .

In real life, curation itself is a description of an ordinary behavior, but in the context of web3, there is a sense of metaphysics. Curating is like a blockchain scam: the implicit premise of curate in the traditional sense is that the curator knows that he is making something for others to see, so he first has a content he wants to convey, and then curates it. But web3 may be open and transparent, so there are many "passive" curators. For example, I don’t necessarily think about all the content of the praise when I like it, but objectively speaking, these actions are open and transparent, so they form an “exhibition”. In this sense, the concept of curate feels generalized

In my understanding, tags in Matt City can also be regarded as a kind of co-curation (although it has not been given any economic significance for the time being). The City of Matt is an open community in which functions and community members are in a symbiotic relationship. This theory is not limited to the functions launched by Matt City itself, such as linking articles, co-managing tags, etc.; there are also functions and projects that are inextricably linked with Matt City, such as clapping, writing NFT, liker social, etc. With user-given meaning, these features have a soul in the city of Matt and can be used to build a more sustainable and tight-knit community.

As a term for spreading knowledge and closely related to community content, what does curation mean? What is community curated content? What kind of content community do we need? What kind of content do individuals and the community want to reward?

From the experience of a USDT reward, I have talked about so much, which seems to be a bit deviating from today's theme; then go back to the question at the beginning of the previous article:

What kind of articles do you want to reward? Why?

Feel free to discuss with me in the comments section!

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The content of this article was inspired by the dDAO community, and the content is quoted from the discussion section of the discord.

In the dDAO community, we use the discord bot 'Cori' to record everyone's discussion content (material fragments), and authorize them to put on the chain. The authors of the cited material fragments are also co-authors of this article. Currently, the Agora Collaborative Writing Project is still exploring the allocation of co-creation algorithms to record writing contributions.

boo is the first author and editor of this article, and ada and atlas are the co-authors of this article. The original content of the discussion fragment can be read here:

https://crossbell.io/notes/38200-1

https://crossbell.io/notes/38189-3

https://crossbell.io/notes/38189-41