Blurt Curation has been in hibernation... but has not been forgotten!
I now have the resources to put some weight behind my original idea.
The aim of Blurt Curation is to support all curators on Blurt, this includes both private initiatives and official community curators. Most importantly, it also supports those individuals who actually do the curating but who sometimes hide behind more prominent initiatives.
I do not have enough power to delegate out, but I do now have enough to give some meaningful votes.
The new setup is that @BlurtCuration will continue to be managed by @rycharde, using a delegation from my witness account @busbecq. This means I can use the witness income to further improve the quality of content on Blurt.
It will take a while to shuffle all the delegations over, but I have already started the process.
Also note, @BlurtCuration is NOT the same as @blurtcurator! The latter lives on Discord and gives modest votes to new posts. We will ONLY vote on curation-related posts or posts by known curators.
So, much has changed in these last 3 months, so let me start by just repeating below the last known list of active curators. Do let me know in a comment if any have changed or been buried. Also, please let me know of new curation initiatives and the actual users behind them.
Now that this account has some juice, I shall also be following all the relevant accounts so can quickly see new posts. It is thus important for you to let me know if your voting and posting accounts are different, else I just won't see them.
The original BlurtCuration did have two positive effects during its modest lifespan: I see more use of the #curation tag, so please use that for all your curation-related posts so that all users can quickly find the most active communities and initiatives; the other was an increase in such actual curation-related posts, such as lists of recent best posts. I know this takes time as I've done this myself before, but it does create a culture among users that quality posts are worth their weight in votes.
I am also aware that most links below are to either blurt.blog or blurt.world and is a real PITA to change them all, so just click on the usernames and follow the trail to the correct community.
That's all for today!
The aim of BlurtCuration is to support individual curators who improve the culture of quality on Blurt.
@BlurtCuration is managed by @rycharde with the support and delegation from my @busbecq witness.
You too can help by voting for my witness here.
Blurt Curation Links
Blurt Foundation Curation Team Managers: @Angelica7 & @Zahidsun
BlurtMusic; community curation account @Blurtmusic, managed by @offgridlife.
BlurtAfrica; community curation account @BlurtAfrica, managed by @empato365.
Blurtutorials; community curation account @Blurtutorials, managed by @tomoyan and @kamranrkploy; focus on tutorials on any subject; weekly reports.
Blurthispano; private curation project managed by @Blurthispano; focus on Spanish language posts.
Blurtespanol; community curation account @blurtespanol, managed by @lanzjoseg; focus on Spanish language posts.
Blurtstory; community curation account @Blurtstory, managed by @wilhb81; focus on quality stories & narratives, both fiction and non-fiction.
R2Cornell; private curation project from @r2cornell; open topics; discord server; weekly reports.
Blurthealth; community curation account @blurthealth, managed by @razack-pulo; weekly reports; note that @Blurthealth asks you to follow the account to be eligible for votes.
Sugarelys; private curation project from @sugarelys; focus on "the arts"; ESP/ENG languages; daily reports.
BlurtContests: community curation account @blurtcontests, managed by @ilnegro; focus on promoting and supporting various contests across Blurt; daily reports.
BlurtGerman: community curation account @blurtgerman, managed by @hornet-on-tour; German language community; weekly reports.
Blurtimals: community curation account @blurtimals, managed by @angelica7; the name is a contraction of Blurt-animals, hence focus on the animal kingdom; weekly reports.
BlurtLife: community curation account @blurtlife, managed by @priyanarc; focus on personal blogs; weekly reports.
BlurtChef: community curation account @blurtchef, managed by @hafizullah; focus on cooking and recipes; weekly reports.
The Magazine: curation of older articles, managed by @ilnegro; weekly posts.
Blurt Reviews: community curation account @blurtreviews, managed by @dfacademy; focus on product and media reviews; daily reports.
FreeVoter: private voter and curator; daily reports.
If you are an individual curator or curation group, and wish to be added, please leave a comment below.
And finally, each post includes one random community tag. This is not in expectation of votes but merely to spread awareness of the Blurt Curation service beyond its own specific tags.
Nice to see you active again. I turned my personal account over to curators, in addition to my curation account. I just do not have the time, with health issues and lots of other responsibilities. Noe between the two account we can reach more users.
Sorry to hear about your health. With attacks and hardforks, I kinda let this project slide, but with hopefully some stability, I felt is time to motivate more good posts.
Is also a shame that reblogging still doesn't work - is much harder to promote good posts without the ability to spread them to more readers.
@blurtopian #blurtopian operated by me initially for open-source contributions but have expanded to software development contributions to Blurt. Closed source like letsblurt is also supported.
Thanks - dunno how I could have missed that one!
Will add it to next post.
Hi @Rycharde, glad to see @blurtcuration back. I am doing weekly curation reports with my account @vickyguevara, please can you include me in the list. Thanks
Great, thanks! Have added you to my follows.
Would save me a lot of time if you could write a one-line entry stating the aims and topics of your curation. Thanks.
Just like the other entries above - then I'll add it to the next post.
@r2cornell has some curators working on it that I know of and they are as follows.
@blessed-girl @melissaofficial and me @bestkizito.
We work behind the scenes to provide votes to people 24/7
That's great, thanks; now I am following all 3 of you. I see some don't post much - that's one of the consequences of curating a lot, so I shall try to pick out some of your comments and vote on those when I see them.
Greetings, what good news to know that you are reactivated, it is an excellent motivational project.
I ratify the information from bestkizito and also the name of another of our curators @abiga554 and @theonlyway were missing.
So Our curators team is made up of: @melissaofficial, @bestkizito, @abiga554, @theonlyway and me @blessed-girl.
many thanks - have added all 5 now, but I see that @abiga554 has posted nothing ever (is that the correct account?) and @theonlyway stopped posting some time ago. Even comments would be good, altho harder to see.
Thanks again!
Hi, yeah, those are the account. They are just curating for now.
Just to verify, it will take maybe a couple of weeks to shuffle delegations around, so users may see votes coming from both myself and @blurtcuration for a while. For some people, this will be no change as I've been voting curators for some months. :-)
Congratulations! This post has been upvoted by the @blurtcurator communal account,
You can request a vote every 12 hours from the #getupvote channel in the official Blurt Discord.Don't wait to join ,lots of good stuff happening there.
Nice to see you active again. I turned my personal account over to curators, in addition to my curation account. I just do not have the time, with health issues and lots of other responsibilities. Noe between the two account we can reach more users.
Congratulations, your post has been curated by @r2cornell-curate.
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