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Welcome to the 166th 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 $0.10 - $1.51!

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

Your Quality Curator ~( @goldendawne )~ Presents:

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@mslifesteem	steemit-guides

The Ultimate Guide To Steemit's Permission Keys & Master Password

As every steemian got a new account on Steemit, So for security purposes every Steemit account has 4 UNIQUE keys which are located on permission keys and the keys are posting key, Active key, Owner key, and Memo key. Each of these key perform certain tasks and have certain permissions which are basically secured by Steemit platform

Do you know which key performs which action? Did you even know you had four permission keys? Want to know what they all do? Then make sure to read @mslifesteem's post now.

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@nameless-berk	adventure

Dominican Rpb: Bienvenido a la Republica Dominicana! Or Crossing The Atlantic Ocean

From Siberia to the Dominican Republic! Come along for a great time with @nameless-berk as he travels to Punta Cana. He shares some unbelievable sights and images on this trip. Make sure to see more of his posts and images that are linked at the bottom of this post.

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@retro-room	gaming

Improve Your Video Game Collection By Focusing On Franchises

One of the great things about video game collecting is the wide range of things you can focus on. Your game collection can be loose carts, boxed, complete or factory sealed. You might only collect for one brand like Nintendo or Playstation. There’s so many things you can focus your collecting on

Are you a collector? Of video games? If you are then make sure to read @retro-room's post about what to look for when you're adding to your collection. Maybe you're thinking about starting a vintage video game collection and need some guidance; either way, see what advice you need to consider.

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@kusior	polish

February 23: International Day Of Help For The Needs- Dilemmas Of Helping

Because of today's International Day of Help for the Needy, I would like to talk about helping. The case is not as simple as it seems. My own experience with this are different, and as a result, the following questions arose in my head:
Should anyone calling for help be helped?
Does our help sometimes bring more harm than good?
Is it not more about satisfying our conscience in helping others?

How do react when you see someone in need? Are you the type of person to help others? Share your feelings, or even an instance, when you were confronted with this type of situation; then read about how @kusior handles it too.

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@narchuk	photography

Water In Search Of Color

In the post Colors of the sea, we just started talking about what happens to the color and light in the water. But if you treat water as a kind of uniform substance with permanent properties, then you got nothing good from the idea of taking pictures under the water

You need to head over and see all the WONDERFUL images that @natchuk captured from around the world. And these just aren't normal tourist pictures; every single image was taken UNDERWATER!

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NEWS

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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.

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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!

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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. =)

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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!

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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! =)

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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.

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Qurator's Discord Channel that all Steemians can join - https://discord.gg/pJtWp57

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New Tiers Update

The latest Tiers update is out and updated. You can see the post here.

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Steemauto Curation Trail

RIP Streemian and hello Steemauto! The new curation trail is active and running! If you would like to support your fellow Qurites or just earn some extra curation feel free to join our curation trail that is active on Steemauto.

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

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Want bigger upvotes? Check out Tiers and how to gain access to them

TIER	Requirements
	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	1087
Steem Power	2724
Delegated	123 950	(+25 020)
Voting Power	82.65%
Upvote Weight T0 (@qurator-tier-0)	6%	$0.10
Upvote Weight T1	1.1%	$0.30
Upvote Weight T2	1.9%	$0.61
Upvote Weight T3	3.6%	$0.91
Upvote Weight T4	4.6%	$1.22
Upvote Weight T5	5.9%	$1.52

Temporary boost to our Steem power. Should be back to around 100K in a few days.

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Upvoting or Resteeming this post will help us grow and in turn enable us to give better upvotes to our members and quality content creators.

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^{@scrooger | @boontjie | @goldendawne | @ewkaw | @ackhoo | @em3 | @brumest | @stresskiller}

^{Special thanks to @kryzsec for the SBD contributions.}

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