Hi, @jayplayco here. It is now over a year that Steemhunt has launched and a lot of things have happened. It is still a fact that most of the community are posting their hunts on Steemhunt and leaving comments on the hunts, but the play ground of the community is still happening on the Discord channel that Steemhunt is running.
As in every community it is always difficult to have a soft landing into it, as the information gap between a newcomer and old members is in the beginning quite big. So I would like to summarize some important questions that Newbies have around Steemhunt.
0. Repository
https://github.com/Steemhunt/web
1. Question : I am totally new, what is this?
Steemhunt is a community driven hunting platform for product enthusiasts. The goal is to find cool and new products within the IT, CE or Software industry and post it to get it ranked on a daily base from other hunters.
2. Question : Cool, I found Steemhunt over Google, how can I start?
For browing and looking at cool hunts from the ranking board, you need nothing special, but in the moment where you want to participate with upvoting other cool products or posting your own hunt, you will need to sign up.
3. Question: Ok, where can I sign up?
* Link: https://steemhunt.com/sign-up
Look for the Sign Up button and create an account. If you create an account, it is going to be a Steem account, which can be used on all Steem based services. You can imagine it similar to a Google account that can be used on all kind of Google services or even as login for other services.
4. Question: Steem Account? I thought I am making a Steemhunt account.
Steemhunt is running on a blockchain called Steem and rewarding also in Steem and own Hunt tokens, which can be exchanged later into other cryptocurrencies like BTC. Because of the reward system you will need a Steem account to participate on the services that Steemhunt is offering. But don't worry, the account creation is as easy as setting up a new email account. Make only sure that you will get a password (so called Key) that is fixed and you need to write down on a safe place, as otherwise your account would be lost.
5. Question: OK, I have created an account, should I post a cool hunt?
Sure, why not. A few tips for the start.
* Search with keywords like the brand name or product name if your product is not already hunted. Steemhunt allows a product only for one time. First hunt first serves. :)
* Make sure that you get the name of your hunted product right, so others can find it easily.
* If you want, describe your hunted product. Other hunters like to see why you have hunted this product and why you think it is cool.
* Add a few matching tags and post your hunt~!
6. Question: I have posted my hunt, what happens now?
Steemhunt has a moderation process. It means that your hunt is going to be reviewed manually from one of our moderators. As our moderators are also volunteered community members and working from around the world, it can take some time until a moderator has been able to review your hunt. Steemhunt does not offer a service level agreement on reviewing hunts, but in most cases a hunted product is reviewed and moderated within 24 hours.
You can see that your hunt has been either approved and verified or delisted based on a comment from one of our moderators.
7. Question: Delisted? On what base?
* Link: https://github.com/Steemhunt/web/blob/master/POSTING_GUIDELINES.md
You can find the posting guideline directly on the top right when posting a hunt. Our moderators are verifying each hunt based and against the actual posting guideline.
An edit of your hunt is only required when the moderator ask specifically for it. If there has been a request you can leave a comment on the latest moderator comment that you have edited and finalized your hunt. If there was no edit request for your hunt you are free to edit, but your moderator will not come back for a review for it.
Moderators do not compare a hunt against a former approved hunt from another hunter or moderator. They only concentrate on the hunt they have to review and verify it against the actual posting guideline. If you still think that your hunt is matching to the posting guideline and that the moderator may have wrongly delisted your hunt, you can appeal for it.
- Link: https://discord.gg/QyCkhSX
Please move to the #moderation-appeal channel and read the pinned message to appeal. You will need the keep the following format for appealing.
1) Moderator tag
2) Steemhunt product link
3) Reason for appeal
It happens often that hunters appeal that they have edited their hunts after delisting, but an appeal is when somebody wants to appeal that there is a moderation error and not a hunter error.
10. I have appealed but my moderator is not reacting for the last 24 hours!
An appealed hunt needs to be reviewed directly from your moderator. As it can happen that they are not directly available, a review of an appeal may take longer to be finished. If you are not satisfied with the final review of your moderator after appealing you can also escalate it to the community manager. It will then finally reviewed and settled.
11. Yeah, my Hunt is verified and I get upvotes, what now?
If you get upvoted there are two parts that you will get. One part is a Steemhunt internal calculated Upvote Score that is based on the activity of hunters and the staked Hunt tokens.
Your daily ranking is going to be decided based on how many Hunt Score points your get. It is important that your hunt is ranked within the first 100 Hunts, because it will influence your User Score within Steemhunt. You can find more about your user score under your profile page directly under your avatar. If you click the ? on the right of "User Score" you can read how the user score is calculated.
The reward you could get is shown on the left buttom of your hunt.
The number is shown in $, but it is not USD but within the Steem economy so called STU $. It is very near to USD and the base how much you will get as reward. The reward is payed in a currency called Steem and SBD (50:50) and can be checked on the Steemit wallet.
* Link: https://steemitwallet.com/@YOURSTEEMID
Under specific conditions, Steemhunt is also upvoting hunts. The conditions are as below.
* Need to have a Steemhunt User Score above 1
* Hunted product needs to be ranked within the first 100 hunts.
12. OK, but if I look into my Wallet at Steemhunt I can see a HUNT token balance, what is that?
HUNT tokens are the internal currency within Steemhunt. You can earn Hunt tokens on different ways. A few of them are as below.
* Delegating Steem Power to the @steemhunt account
* Upvoting other Hunts
* Sharing hunts on other platforms and bring traffic to Steemhunt.
* Boosting a Hunt. (converting your STU into Hunt tokens when posting a hunt)
13. What can I do with Hunt tokens and why do I need them?
Hunt tokens can be traded on an exchange, but more importantly you will need to have Hunt tokens in your Wallet to increase your User Score within Steemhunt. Steemhunt is upvoting based on the ranking of your hunt and your user score, so if you have a higher user score, the daily upvoting you could get from Steemhunt is also increasing.
There are of course a lot of more questions out there, but for a quick start it should help to have a softer landing at the Steemhunt community. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesistate to join our discord channel and ask the community, as the Steemhunt community is very supportive.