While the Engagement Mining pilot phase will be operated by the developing team of BBS, once the full functionality of the Engagement Mining program is released, the decision of approval would fall to the BBS DAO, those who stake their BBS tokens. 

New boards are currently approved for the program in bi-monthly transitions, if there are any changes to the approved list. Boards that no longer meet requirements will be removed with these transitions as well, unless otherwise required.

In order to be considered for the Engagement Mining pilot phase, a board must meet the following criteria:

In order to promote diversity of content and communities, each board will need to have a focused topic in order to be eligible for approval into the Engagement Mining program.

This means that boards seeking approval for Engagement Mining must ensure that their board has a provided topic for members to post about (such as how METABBS is about the BBS Network, VILLA & BANTER are about crypto, THEORY is about Star Wars, etc). The majority of posts on the board must be directly relevant to the focused topic. Topics that are too broad would not be considered a focused topic. 

Boards must maintain requirements to remain eligible for the pilot phase of the Engagement Mining program. After the pilot phase, requirements can be set by the BBS DAO.

If there are any questions about these requirements please comment here or message the Community Admins.

Applicants to the Engagement Mining program are also reviewed by their quality of engagement and discussion on their board. Posts published on the board should be on topic, and the board should consistently generate posts that produce meaningful engagement and discussion.

Content on the board does not need to be original. Links to articles, discussion of news posts, or sharing information relevant to the board are also considered on-topic posts which contribute to the Engagement Mining qualifications. Taking a look at legacy social media networks such as Reddit, we can see that many of the posts which generate high quality discussion and engagement are links or posts about new or trending information relevant to the topic. Researching similar communities on other platforms is a great way to see what kind of content generates quality and meaningful discussion.

Meaningful engagement and discussion around the board's topic is the most important criteria to be considered for Engagement Mining. Shallow or 'fluff' comments are not considered meaningful discussion/engagement.

Some examples of non-meaningful comments:

Not all comments and discussions are expected to be meaningful and engaging, but meaningful discussion should be easily visible within the board's top posts, comments, and high quality contributions.

Each board owner determines their board's revenue distribution, but board's seeking approval for Engagement Mining must ensure to maintain a healthy partnership with the board's top contributors. 

Each board owner and their team also has a responsibility to monitor and mitigate fraudulent activity. Boards with unmitigated fraudulent activity (manipulated posts, views, comments, etc) will not be eligible for approval.

Boards should maintain a healthy activity distribution, meaning activity the board generates should not be localized primarily to a small group of users.

Approved boards are supported by the BBS Network Engagement Mining program, and it's important that owners and teams of approved boards continue to promote a positive and healthy image of BBS Network. Approved boards can not force engagement through punitive measures.

This means that while approved boards can maintain things such as partnership requirements, it should not be an active constant focus of the board’s discussions or announcements. 

Partnership for a board should be maintained for top contributors, and should be a secondary or tertiary focus for the board.

Once a BBS has reached the requirements, an application may be submitted by posting within the METABBS “Engagement Mining Applications” channel. 

In the application, please include the following:

After the application is made, send the link to the BBS Community Admin for review.

We’ll review the application and let you know if the board will be added in to the next transition or will continue to be pending.