The Daily Qurator #169 | Upvoting at $0.09 - $1.25
Welcome to the 169th Daily Edition of the Daily Qurator. Below you will find some awesome members of @qurator that worked hard to post some good quality content for all you awesome Steemians to enjoy!
The @qurator project was created to help give Steemians some extra exposure and awesome upvotes currently worth around $0.09 - $1.25!
Note: some of you have been curated twice since the start of the daily qurator and some have been curated only once. As the Daily Qurator is gaining fame with every passing day, many new steemians are asking/will ask to join us. So, expect to see posts from new users for now. When the opportunity arises, posts from older users will be curated once again
| @shawnamawna | life |
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Please Link Your Post In Comments- Let's Connect
I try to put up a connection post at least once a week. I love getting to know the community on this platform. Truth be told, I get very overwhelmed trying to scroll through the main feed. Inviting you to link on a blog post is a great way for me to make sure I get over to see you, and even more wonderful is the chance for my regular readers to find and enjoy your work
Ever feel overwhelmed by steemit's feed? Afraid you're missing some great talented authors with superb posts? Well do what @shawanamawma does every week! She makes a post and requests fellow steemians to post his or her links so she can read them! WHAT a fabulous idea! Have you ever tried this? Are you thinking about doing it now? I am!
| @brexscoot | meetup |
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[Steemit 17- MeetUp Ksi East Aceh- Bereh](On Sunday we went to the eastern aceh district which is more appropriate for idi city to follow and enliven the event meet up Ksi East aceh with the theme "Bereh" held in a coffee shop called zwin coffee )
On Sunday we went to the eastern aceh district which is more appropriate for idi city to follow and enliven the event meet up Ksi East aceh with the theme "Bereh" held in a coffee shop called zwin coffee...
(which has) transformed into a gathering place of the steemian from various regions diaceh like Ksi chapter langsa, Ksi chapter aceh north, Ksi chapter lhokseumawe, Ksi chapter bireuen and many more
Meetups and steemit gatherings are becoming more and more popular as more steemians join the platform. Come along for a visit with @brexscoot as he and other local steemians in his area of Aceh take over a local coffee shop.
| @sweetpea | steemiteducation |
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Science Experiment: Why Do Pine Cones Open And Close?
My toddler has a huge fascination in collecting all sorts of treasures which usually fill his pockets are the back of his toy dump trucks and train carriages. This weeks he stuffed his bag full of pine cones which he found on the grounds of his school, and then brought them home to share his discoveries with us. While the messy pine needles and traces of sand that landed on the floor and where left behind as remnants in his school bag didn’t thrill me, I knew a learning opportunity had presented itself, and this did get me excited – I love doing learning activities with my kid
Have you ever considered why some pine cones are open; and others are closed? Do you know why this happens? Well, @sweetpea takes a simple object of nature, does an experiment to show us all just why this is. The only inspiration she needed was her toddler son and a backpack loaded with pine cones.
| @huslein.slash | painting |
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Coffee Painting Study 11: A Child With Arabica Gayo Coffee
I want to continue again coffee painting study number 11. But I did a little different about using kind of coffee. I tried to paint with the famous coffee Arabica Gayo. Hear it name, I can feel the taste of that coffee. I want to maintain the quality of my paintings, so of course I made it with quality coffee. That's me who is not satisfied with what I've got and want more. Experiment after experiment I will do to improve my ability
We've all seen paintings done with obvious; paint, watercolors and even other artistic implements... But coffee? Have you ever seen a painting done with coffee? Well, now you have! Take a look at the process @huslein.slash uses to create this new masterpiece.
| @gilangarif131294 | inspiration |
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The Inspiration Behind Success- Key Of Success
The inspiration of someone who has been successful may be able to learn it, what we have to learn from that person is how they got up and started again, in contrast to some people who instantly broke up when something they did failed miserably
Where do you find inspiration? Is it with another person? Maybe someone you admire, think of as a mentor or is it a friend who has succeeded when others thought it not possible? Read @gilangarif131294's post to see what he has to say about his friend and how his friend's story has inspired him.
NEWS
The new and improved Qurator bot is here!
Why the new bot?
The current bot had a 24 hour timer built in, thus you can only get upvotes 24 hours apart. Missing that window and you might not get your upvote. This resulted in posts not getting upvotes. The old EDIT and UPDATE trick always worked its magic but was a bit of a hassle.
Out with the old, in with the new!
The new bot will search for posts to upvote 24 hour after your previous upvote. If you posted 2 post in a 24 hour period it will go back and upvote your posts. (More details to follow)
The new bot will be active withing the next 24 hours. We are busy getting everything ready and transferring databases. During this time both @qurator and @qurator-tier-0 will be offline. Please understand and be patient while we handle the necessary upgrades.
The bot is completely new and even though we did test it, there might still be some errors that we have to work out during the next few days.
UPDATE: We are seeing some minor issues with the bot and will be testing it more on the @qurator-tier-0 account. Once it is stable on that account and all the bugs have been sorted out we will let it go live on the main @qurator account.
UPDATE 2: Worked out most of the kinks and will be running it for a while on @qurator-tier-0. If the test goes well then we will start using it on @qurator. =)
UPDATE 3: Looks like we worked out most of the bugs and will be doing a long run to see if the bot is stable. If it is then after this weekend we should be using the new bot on the main @qurator account.
UPDATE 4: Rough weekend for Steemit nodes. Steemit was down a bit and nodes were bombing out. Took a toll on the old bot. The new bot was also affected but not as drastically as the old one. Think that's a good thing. Still working out some kinks and polishing here and there.
Steemit Challenges on Discord
We all know that there are some awesome Steemians that created great challenges with cool prizes here on steemit. @stresskiller took it upon himself to make a really neat Steemit challenges calendar that he synced and integrated into Qurator's Discord Channel. If you are a member of Qurator feel free to check out the Discord Channel and visit the steemit-challenges tab. There you will find an updated list of all the daily/weekly challenges. massive shout-out and thanks to @stresskiller!
Introducing: Toss up Thursday!
We have Tasty Tuesday for Foodies and Photo Friday for Photographers. What about the rest of our awesome content creators? We thought of an idea to get some upvotes and possible post promotion. Check out the Toss up Thursday post!
With all the flag wars and drama on Steemit, we decided to go the opposite route. Make love, not war! We don't take part in flag wars, instead wehave upvote wars! Whe highly suggest checking out our latest competition and think of your ideal strategy to win that awesome Tier 5 prize. =)
New Tasty Tuesday is out! Go cast your upvotes!
We will be doing a weekly Tasty Tuesday that will focus on food related blogs. Photography and Food is something that gets overlooked by Steemit quite a lot so we want to help out a bit by getting more people involved in both categories.
To view our latest Tasty Tuesday please visit this link to cast your vote for your favorite dish!
Did you vote for your favorite Photo Friday yet? The newest edition just launched!
Qurator will be hosting a Photo Friday each week where 5 members will be selected to win a Tier 5 membership!
Head over to Photo Friday to cast your vote and show some support! Who knows, maybe next week it's your turn to receive some votes and stand a chance to win! =)
The bot is Qurator exclusive and will upvote all Qurites with an upvote of 2.65 times the worth of what you send it, up to $1.20+!
Delegators will see payouts of 90% of all SBD earned by the bot.
New Tiers Update
Steemauto Curation Trail
We suggest not following the trail with 100%, steemauto has 2 ways of following a trail, static or scaled. We suggest using SCALED instead of static since static votes can add up quickly and drain VP very fast. We suggest using scaled and then maybe around 25%.
Steemauto can show us who is currently on the trail and at what percentage. Looking forward to see more Qurites joining the trail in the near future! We also reward the team players and there might be a nice surprize for a lucky trailer. =P
Steemauto guide and registration info
Want bigger upvotes? Check out Tiers and how to gain access to them
| TIER | Requirements |
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 | Basic 4 STEEM registration fee. Basic upvote for life from @qurator. |
 | Delegate 100SP to @qurator or Upvote @qurator's posts 4+ times a week |
 | Delegate 200SP to Qurator or Upvote @qurator's posts 7+ times a week |
 | Delegate 300SP to @qurator |
 | Delegate 400SP to @qurator |
 | Delegate 500SP+ to @qurator |
Delegation links:
| 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 |
After you click the link you will have to check the value, click next and then enter your steemit NAME and Private Active Key to delegate. Please remember to leave at least 50SP in your account!
| Members | 1107 | +4 |
| Steem Power | 2814 | |
| Delegated | 119 448 | (-4711) |
| Voting Power | 77.72% | |
| Upvote Weight T0 (@qurator-tier-0) | 5% | $0.09 |
| Upvote Weight T1 | 1% | $0.28 |
| Upvote Weight T2 | 1.8% | $0.42 |
| Upvote Weight T3 | 3.3% | $0.83 |
| Upvote Weight T4 | 4.2% | $0.97 |
| Upvote Weight T5 | 5.5% | $1.25 |
Temporary boost to our Steem power. Should be back to around 100K in a few days.
Your Quality Content Curator - Banners
Feel free to use our any of our banners created by awesome Steemians.
Simply copy and paste the link into the bottom of your post, this will be awesome support towards the project and we are sure many of you are proud to be a Qurite. =)
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excellent..and pleased too support
Thanks @qurator, who has helped the steemians to flourish, hope you are healthy and successful always.
Well to me it's always knowledgable reading your post @qurator, thank you for sharing this awesome post.
I’m still confused if it’s 4 or 2 steem to enter.
Please can you decide if you are going to give me membership or refund my STEEM - I contacted you nearly 3 days ago sending you 4 Steem as you advertised and on the back of that I upvoted 7 of your posts. Now there is still no decision on my application although you continue to have time to post new articles and accept others. I am sure you overlooked my membership application and not realised, at least I hope that's the case... Many thanks.....
Hi @solarisastro,
Thanks for contacting us and apologize for taking so long. Did see your transaction and we do normally take a while to handle the registrations (as stated in our main Qurator Details Post). All the mods have make a decision before we go ahead and approve a member. We did however refund you, come have a chat with us on Discord for details. =)
Why not have a chat on here? I write original ground breaking Astrology and I have no idea why I was rejected. Very very disappointed, especially as Astrology fans on Steemit are thin on the ground, and I need all the assistance I can get. If it is because I have been flagged up for copying work, it's only work that I wrote on my own website before I joined this site - using my own back catalogue... Rather unfair as I see it...
We tend to keep the chats private, saw your message on Discord and replied. No need to be discouraged by it all. We have set rules in place to be part of Qurator. Please don't see it as unfair. We are a support group and help where we can, we try to help all our members make their steemit blogging experience better and earn better rewards.
Well I find hiding the truth of why someone was rejected wrong -
that says to me that you yourselves have something to hide. I was actually rejected because I didn't quote the source of the images I used. This was told to me on Discord by one of your founders @brumest. The thing is, I found in just 2 minutes a post that had uncredited photos on it, when I was expressly told that I was rejected for such a violation of your conditions.
That guys is hypocritical of you, especially when you are handing out cash to members. Yes, lets have this discussion in public. On the Blockchain everything is supposed to be public and above board, so why are you hiding the truth of why some people are not allowed a revenue stream...?
This has put me off joining @qurator as you are not being open yourselves and holding yourselves to your own impossibly high standards...
It is a community with rules to follow if you want to be a part of it. Like a professional body requires some exams.
If you find community members not citing images please add it to your comment so they can investigated and reprimanded if needed.
I mentioned it to @brumest and he/she actually thanked me for the information. The fact is mind you is that I felt rather upset that I was being turned away for a reason that others memebrs are getting away with, and earning money from...
The fact is that it shouldn't be happening in the first place and that it was missed. If these members re-applied with no image source they would have been turned away as well