Our goal at Worldmappin Map and Travel Community

Since the worldmappin.com map exists we have planned to extend it for all Hive users, which means everyone can pin their post on the map and link it to the content-related community - bringing all the users and communities together in one place again the worldmappin.com map.

The Worldmappin Community is the start of showing how that works. It always has been and will be travel-related, because our vision in this community has always been two things:

A: Provide each traveler with their unique world map, where they can explore the world, pin their trips and memories, and dive back into the memories whenever they want with just a click.

B: Give the travelers a platform to share their adventures and experiences with others, so that the whole community benefits from using the map as a travel guide to finding more information and inspiration for their next trips.

As you know the curation team of @worldmappin project: @lizanomadsoul, @ybanezkim26, @lauramica, @glecerioberto, and @ninaeatshere, is checking the incoming travel posts of this community every day, curating the top content and giving the winners visibility in our Daily Travel Digest.

We often get questions from our community members on what to do and not do, or how they can improve their content to get curated by our team.

So we took some time within the team to write down our guidelines with all the rules and suggestions, on which you can rely when writing a travel post within the @Worldmappin community. In this post, we will go into detail about every one of them. - Thanks also to @livinguktaiwan and the rest of the @worldmappin team @detlev, @arcange, @godfish,@louis88, @rivalzzz, @masterswatch and @uniforced for your input and for the support on this.

For us, it is important, that all of you have the same knowledge and possibilities to position your content within this community following the standards of quality that we seek to ensure following our vision.

Intro

We love and celebrate the huge diversity in our community, representing different cultures, customs, mentalities, genders, age groups, and languages. Every traveler has his/her unique character, perception of the world, values, and strengths that make him/her the special person that we love to follow on their trips.

We are very aware that with this uniqueness there comes different styles of writing, taking pictures or telling a story and that is super great! So of course, this summary is meant only as a suggestion! We love and understand that HIVE is a decentralized ecosystem, where we are all free to create content in our own individual way!

However, if you share our goal and want to get support for your efforts, you may want to consider certain rules and suggestions for your future posts, that allow us to establish a standard of quality.

So let's get started! Read further and get more clear on these things on the way!

Rules for posting in the community

As you may know, every community has its own rules. The rules are our most important guidelines to follow our vision and keep the quality for every one of you. If you want to be in this community you have to follow them, otherwise you will be muted at some point. Those rules have been implemented since the beginning of the project and are regularly updated.

Rule Nr. 1. This community is only for posts included in the https://worldmappin.com map.

The most important rule of our community is to pin your post to our map, because for us it's not only important that you can collect your posts on your map, but also that other travelers can benefit from your experiences. Of course, this will also give your post more exposure, as well as a chance to be featured in our daily Travel Digest 😃. There are two ways to pin your post to the map:

• Include PINs from PeakD: After writing your post, click on the map icon at the bottom. It's next to “ Short preview description” and above the “Advanced” icon.

• Include PINs in the rest of the Front-ends:
  • Go to https://worldmappin.com/
  • Find the location of your publication on the map, you can do this by scrolling the map or using the search bar.
  • Click on the GET CODE button and then click on the exact location of your publication: a code snippet will be generated.
  • Copy the code and paste it into the draft of your Hive post. Then publish it. 🙂
  • The code will be invisible in your post, but a few minutes after publishing you will receive a comment informing you that your post has been added to the map.

Rule Nr. 2. English and Spanish content only. (or bi-lingual with one of the languages being English or Spanish)

As we want this map to be understandable for most of our users and we are still growing. We only allow English or Spanish content for now. Of course we plan to extend this rule to more languages over time but for now only those two languages are allowed and being curated.

If your native language is not English, feel free to include the original version of your writing in your native language next to the English or Spanish text.

Rule Nr. 3. Only original content, no plagiarism, no AI-generated content, no recycled content.

We want to know what you experienced! See your Pictures and get shared your personal knowledge - so we can be on the trip together and follow your adventures just the way you did! So please only use information, pictures, or videos that are yours (or put the source). Plagiarism is not allowed because of obvious reasons.

We know that AI is the future, it is fun and that of course it can help put more value on your post sometimes, but there are also some users out there, who are writing their posts using AI only - trying to use it only to get some payout - not to share their trip experiences with others. So for us, a mix is ok, but we will know if it is 100% AI generated and that is fully against our rules as it is also not you - and therefore not following our vision and values.

Recycling old posts and pictures same as writing multiple times about the same place /the same experience is not allowed for the same reasons.

Rule Nr. 4. Content must be about places you have personally traveled to and about your experience.

We want you to explore your own map, make your own experiences and share them with the community, so they get inspired to do something like that as well! We love to be on your side when you are getting out of your comfort zone, taking on new adventures and checking out new places. So don´t just plan it theoretically - go, do it, and write about it after you experience it yourself!

Rule Nr. 5. Worldmappin is a travel community, please post reviews of accommodations, food, and restaurants in other appropriate communities.

Please avoid posting on unrelated topics. This also includes - reviews about accommodations - shopping malls
- restaurants - tips & tricks on transportation

unless they are only a small part of your trip and not the main topic of the post OR such a place of interest to travel to, because of historic /extra cool background.

However, you can pin your posts from other communities on the map, to keep track of all your visits on https://worldmappin.com. Here are some examples (click on each image to see details):

Actifit community	BEER community	HiveFest community

Rule Nr. 6. Penalties that happen if you don´t follow the rules

If you don´t follow our community rules, you will be muted. Depending on which rule you are breaking, you get a warning and will be watched or muted right away.

As the general consensus within Hive is that plagiarized content, AI-generated, spam, and recycled posts meant to farm rewards are to be muted, and users involved in those activities are to be penalized by blacklisting from further curation, here we are very strict and act right away.

If you break one of the other rules you will get a friendly reminder and will be put on our watchlist. If it happens again you will be muted again. - If you are having trouble with this or you have questions on it you can get in touch with us on Discord Channel at any time.

Suggestions

Congrats! You have made it through the rule jungle and are enjoying the view as all the fog should be gone by now.

As a big thank you for your attention and because you are a great member of this community, we want to give you a small collection of suggestions to make your content even more exciting for others to read. Of course, those things can also help to be selected by us in the daily Traveldigest.

Headline of the post

On Hive, hundreds of posts are published every day, so it is very difficult for curators to cover all the content. The title we choose is the first piece of information we see from your work, so it is important that the title of your post is short, attractive, and related to the content you submit.

There is no single way, but in terms of travel content, it is advisable to indicate the location or the name of the place you visit instead or in addition to your invitation to read the content of an adventure.

It is recommended to avoid long titles, there is just no need to detail itineraries or exalt the headline, so get to the point 😎.

Bilingual posts

As we told you already in the rules section: If your native language is not English, feel free to include the original version of your writing in your native language. This helps us to verify the authenticity of the text and allows you to have a wider audience and interactions with people who also speak the same language as you. Of course, always include the English translation.

When you do so, please make it visually attractive and easy to follow. As for the way to distribute the content in different languages, there are many possibilities (one language first followed by the other, translation by blocks of content or in different columns, among others) and all of them are valid, the important thing is that the way you present it allows the reader to feel comfortable when reading your content. Try to put yourself on the reader's side.

As for the title, try to point out the languages in which it is available, no need to be redundant. Here are some examples, there can be many variations of this, but the best is to indicate only once in the sentence the presence of each language:

e.g.1 “My post headline [Eng][Esp]” e.g.2 “El título de mi post [Esp][Eng]” e.g.3 “My post headline | El título de mi post”.

Length of content

Travel and adventure are words that by themselves open our imagination to countless stories. Remember that our goal in this community is to invite others to accompany us during the travels and serve as a guide to visit. You write about your experiences and let others know about the spots you have enjoyed the most. It is difficult to summarize them in just 300 words. Of course you can, but is it enough to make your experience the best of the day?

By this, we don't mean that we write a lot just to increase volume, nor that your publications have to be full of historical/technical data obtained from other sources. What we love is for you to take us on a journey with you, with your emotions and sensations through the journey that many can make, but that has been unique for you.

The moment you to tell us your own story, what particularly inspired you to talk about it, it is not difficult to reach at least 500 words, which could be considered as a starting point to stand out.

Photos and videos

This is another important feature that immediately captures the reader's attention. Choosing and highlighting your images can be crucial when promoting your publication, but you must not forget that the essence of a travel post is your story, the experience, and the anecdotes that allow you to capture those moments with which you illustrate your blog.

We recommend finding a balance between photos and text. You can use as many photos as you want, but remember that these serve as backup to your story, this community is not about photography, so publishing 20 photos and 100 words, is not as interesting as a travel guide. On the other side sharing only 3 images that do not highlight that incredible journey is also not telling so much about your adventure.

Therefore, a basic recommendation would be to include at least 5 photos of the environment we visited, showing the landscape, the town, or the monuments. Taking pictures of ourselves during the tour, selfies, and photos of food and lodging is super nice to see, but cannot be the main part of the audiovisual material, remember that the community is focused on the traveler's destination.

Try to take care of the quality of the photographs. Lack of focus and leaning without seeking dynamism or any other form of artistic expression, end up in images that are difficult to understand.

As for the videos, regardless of the length, there is no justifying the lack of text and images sharing our experience. Not everyone has the time to watch a whole video, the best thing is to offer the viewer both options so that we not only have video views but also invite readers to enjoy our experience. We recommend orienting the device used for recording horizontally so that it is more friendly to the eye in 3Speak.

Sources, quotations, rights, and credits

We have emphasized the importance of sharing original content, based on personal experience and according to rules 3 and 4 of the community, so it might go without saying that the text, images, and other resources used in the publication must be our own.

However, for specific occasions within the post, when we share an image or video authorized by third parties, we must give credit to the authors and link to the source link to verify its veracity. This is not a problem if we do not base our entire article on someone else's reference, but we introduce an element to improve the story we have been sharing with others.

Tags

In any case, in Hive tags must be related to the content you are writing about. Within the community, we don't require any in particular, but #Travel will help you classify your content, making it more accessible when someone is interested in this topic. The same happens when you include in tags the city, country or region you are visiting.

You can also use references to the way you travel, #backpacking, #roadtrip, #solotravel, #hiking, among others. Some relevant monuments or features of the place visited are #beach, #nature, #forest, #mountain, #lake. Just to make it easier to find similar content, in case someone is interested in the article because of that specific mention. In the end, here we seek to share our passion for traveling: #wanderlust.

If you include a language other than English, use the tag of your language of origin and some reference to travel (e.g. #Spanish, #viajes, #senderismo #deutsch).

Engagement

Last but not least, as important as all the previous sections, the commitment of each user within the blockchain and especially in the community is fundamental. If we expect to receive support, the most reasonable thing to do is to support content creators who make the same effort as we do and who bring our traveling world to life.

Being an active member of a community doesn't just mean posting to it, but interacting with other users on posts in the community beyond responding to comments on our posts. Voting, commenting, and providing feedback a ways to support each other, share experiences, get in touch with each other, make new friendships, and of course learn, and add real value to the ecosystem.

Being part of a community, the most common thing is being in touch with others, wanting to feel valued and seen, exchange information and experiences, challenge each other and get some inspiration from each other to learn and grow as a whole. We may have more affinity with some publications than others, but we can always get a few words of support from our peers. Sometimes some people just need a warm and sincere comment to make their day start better or be motivated for their next adventure.

Let's thrive together and bring this community to the next level!

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