Every Friday of each week I will publish a post in which I will announce the winner of the previous contest and select 4 posts published within the Olio di Balena community by 4 different authors.
I will only select posts that are not yet in payout at the time the weekly announcement is published.

My role is and will only be as a selector of posts because it will always be the members of the Olio di Balena community who will choose the Best Author of the week via a voting poll in a thread on Inleo.

Olio di Balena members will be able to vote for their favorite author from Friday until the poll closes, which will occur every Monday at: 10:00 UTC - 6:00 AM EST - 11:00 UTC+1 (Italian time)

Post selection criteria.

The basic rules to follow when writing posts are the same rules given by @fedesox who is the creator of the Whale Oil community:

• Italian writing welcome
• original content
• respect and fairness

To these basic rules I have added selection criteria.

In selecting the best posts I will consider multiple elements including:

Selection Criterion 1: The quality of the post.

• Minimum 500 words.
  I will not consider posts with less than 500 words.
  Important note: For dual language posts, only one language will be considered for word count.
• Citation of sources.
  If you use images that are not your own, you must always indicate the source from which you took the images (image link).
  If the pictures/images in your post are yours you must still include anywhere in your post an indication that they are your own pictures/images.
  Also remember that images if not yours must be usable for commercial purposes.

Selection Criterion 2: the level of interaction in the Olio di Balena community.

• those who wrote 0 comments during the week will not be considered even if they wrote a Pulitzer Prize-worthy quality post.
• you must have commented at least once on a post by another author published within the Olio di Balena community
• if two posts have equal or similar quality it will be the level of interaction that will be the deciding factor for selection.

Selection criterion 3: a greater score for the use of the Italian language.

The Best Author of the Week initiative is open to everyone (Italian and non-Italian) but the use of the Italian language allows more chanches to be selected among the 4 nominations

The reason for this choice is related to one of the goals of Olio di Balena: to try to increase Italian language content on Hive.

If you are not Italian and you are a member of Olio di Balena you are always welcome on Olio di Balena but if you want to have more chanches to be selected as author of the week I suggest you to add also the Italian version/translation to your post ;)

Rotation Criterion:

To give more authors a chance to win this contest the winner of each contest will be excluded from the nominations only for the next contest.
Note: I will not apply this criterion only if the number of valid posts for the contest published on Odb is less than 4.

The prizes for Top Author of the Week

Each week the winner of this initiative, the best author of the week, will receive two prizes:

• 60% of the weekly post rewards.
• will be placed on @leo.voter's curation list starting when @weeklytops announces the winners until Friday.
  important note: leo.voter will only curate posts published using the Inleo editor.

Each week the beneficiaries of the "Best Author of the Week" post will always be:

• 60% Author of the Week
• 20% @weeklytops
• 14% @odb-contest
• 6% divided among the non-winning authors

It's time to choose the Best Author of the Week on Olio di Balena.

Odb member you are invited to take part in this decision with your vote in the weekly poll!!

Decentralized curation is a very important step forward for Hive communities and community involvement is very important, which is why it is important that you participate in this process!

In the previous 7 days there were many more authors who exceeded the 500-word minimum requirement than in the previous week and I am very happy about that.
Unfortunately, however, I had to exclude from the selection some excellent posts written by @giuatt07, @p1k4ppa10 and @tosolini because in order to enter the nominations it is necessary to write at least one comment under another author's post published on Odb in a 7-day time interval.
So dear friends and members of Olio di Balena remember to write at least one comment under a post by another Odb author ;)

I didn't check if @lozio71 wrote at least 1 comment to the other authors but because of the rotation mechanism and because winner of the previous contest he skips this nomination and is fully included in the next contest.

This contest is in my opinion a nice incentive and also a nice support for Odb authors but it is also related to participation in voting in the poll and positive or not positive consideration from the community.
Voting in the poll takes a second and has no cost because voting in the poll is not an upvote.
For the previous contest there were only 3 votes and this number is really too few to carry this initiative forward because I personally only carry it forward because I believe it can be useful to the community.

For this reason if the votes in the polls of the next contests increase I will continue this initiative otherwise not because it will mean that it is not liked or not considered useful by the community members.

Having closed this small parenthesis of considerations about the previous contest I can announce the new nominations.

The nominations for this week are:

Autore	Post Cover	Post Link
@vittoriozuccala		04. il Ferroviere, il Generale, il Marito
@stefano.massari		15-04-2024 - Economy - The monopoly [EN]-[IT]
@arc7icwolf		[ENG/ITA] Delegation Raised... Again! 1500HP to leo.voter and My Road to 2500LP!
@bencwarmer		BEN's day: ma in che mondo viviamo?

Vote for your favorite author in this poll:

--->Go vote!<---

Participate in decentralized curation of the Olio di Balena community, your voice counts!
IMPORTANT NOTE: voting in the poll is not an upvote but a simple preference vote

You can vote until Monday at 10:00 UTC - 6:00 AM EST - 11:00 UTC+1 (Italian time) and the winner will be announced by the @weeklytops account.

ITA: Taggo tutto il team e i moderatori di Olio di Balena/ENG: I tag all the team and moderators of Olio di Balena(ENG): @fedesox @mad-runner @claudio83 @zottone444 @garlet @teo93 @dexpartacus

ITA: Taggo anche tutti gli utenti di Odb che hanno pubblicato almeno 1 post negli ultimi due mesi/ENG:I also tag all Odb users who have published at least 1 post in the past two months: @robibasa @moeenali @vittoriozuccala @stefano.massari @giuatt07 @aston.villa @skyehi @tosolini @astrocreator @yameen @cavart @bencwarmer @nftfrappe @arc7icwolf @hivenberg @adinapoli @will91 @mikezillo @ran.koree @barnabo73 @carolineschell @mchero @noemilunastorta @lorenzopistolesi @p1k4ppa10 @curamax @pousinha @lozio71 @sissim72

ITA: Se sei stato taggato ma non vuoi essere taggato, scrivimelo nei commenti e ti rimuoverò immediatamente.
Se non sei stato taggato ma vuoi esserlo scrivimelo nei commenti e ti aggiungerò ai tag.

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If you have not been tagged but want to be, write it to me in the comments and I will add you to the tags.

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