Thank you to all the teams who took the time to apply to become Community Curators for August.

There were 11 applications in total for the five themes - up two from last month.

If your team was not selected this time do not be too sad. Start reviewing and refining your application for next month - particularly read the rules carefully and take note of the comments at the end of this post.

We hope the whole community will continue to embrace the new Community Curators, and work hard to produce good content to earn votes from them.

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Community Curator Teams for August 2022

The teams selected for each of the themes are...

• Arts - art, crafts, photography, music, poetry, creative writing
  The team is led by @suboohi with @franyeligonzalez, @msharif, @monzz122, @rosz, @simonnwigwe, and @waterjoe.
  https://steemit.com/curatorteamapplication/@suboohi/application-for-month-of-august-for-theme-art-by-the-efficient-seven

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• Finance & Technology - finance, business, crypto, science, technology, computing
  The team was led by @kouba01 with @chiabertrand, @fredquantum, @irawandedy, @ozenozge, @pelon53, and @steemdoctor1.
  https://steemit.com/curatorteamapplication/@kouba01/curation-team-application-finance-and-technology-for-august-month

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• Lifestyle - health, fitness, sport, leisure, food, travel, pets
  The team is led by @ashkhan with @deepak94, @f2i5, @juzkid, @marlyncabrera, @mrsokal, and @samuel20.
  https://steemit.com/curatorteamapplication/@ashkhan/community-curators-team-application-for-august-2022-or-or-by-steemcor07

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• My Life - the Diary Game, My Town in Ten Pics, acts of kindness, charity
  The team is led by @malikusman1 with @graceleon, @josemen, @ridwant, @sachin08, @solaymann, and @wase1234.
  https://steemit.com/curatorteamapplication/@malikusman1/curator-s-team-application-august-my-life-category-by-global-curators-team

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• Steem Growth - Steem promotion, marketing, development, contests
  The team was led by @huzaifanaveed1 with @crismenia, @enveng, @fombae, @kyrie1234, @mato445, and @nadiaturrina.
  https://steemit.com/curatorteamapplication/@huzaifanaveed1/3wag4a-curator-team-application-for-the-month-of-august-steem-growth-by-team-cosmopolitan

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Congratulations to the winning teams.

Please would the leader of each winning team confirm acceptance in a comment below and include their contact details (Discord / Telegram).

Would each member of each winning team also add a comment to their team leader’s comment confirming their participation in the team and giving their contact details (Discord / Telegram)?

We will then be in touch to provide the keys for the accounts.

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Team Lucky Dip

This month, instead of the Learn With Steem team, we have introduced ‘Team Lucky Dip’ made up of members from the unsuccessful teams.

For August the people selected for Team Lucky Dip are…

• @abiga554 [ Peru / #club100 ]
• @alee75 [ Indonesia / #club100 ]
• @chant [ Cameroon / #club100 ]
• @ispin [ Turkey / #club100 ]
• @leonelb [ Venezuela / #club100 ]
• @nadeesew [ Sri Lanka / #club100 ]
• @patjewell [ South Africa / #club100 ]

Team Lucky Dip will not be tied to any theme and will be free to vote on any posts that meet the usual standards (club status, esteem exclusive, bot free, plagiarism free). The posts can be in communities or outside of communities.

The team should not vote on any posts that have already been voted on by any of the other @steemcurator0x accounts.

The team should select a leader amongst themselves.

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Please would each member selected indicate in a comment below if they are willing to join Team Lucky Dip. Please also include your contact details (Discord / Telegram).

We will make contact with at least one member of the team to provide the key for the account.

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We would suggest all teams make a post declaring what tags they will be tracking for their curation, and also how they will be checking for plagiarized posts. The tags will not apply for Team Lucky Dip.

The @steemcurator accounts should only be used for voting and commenting. They should not be used for downvoting or making posts.

We suggest that a comment is left on each post voted to let the author know the post has been supported by the curation team - and please include which member of the team selected the post.

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How the Curation Teams will be rewarded

Every day the teams will be allowed to allocate one full vote to a team member’s post - ideally in rotation.

In total therefore no more than 10% of the account’s voting power should be used on team members each week.

Additionally each week one member should post a report for the team in the Steem POD community with a list of their top 7 posts, with a brief note of why each post was chosen.

These weekly report posts should set beneficiaries to be shared with other members of the team.

The posts will be voted by @steemcurator01.

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We were disappointed that we were not able to rotate more of the teams for this coming month.

Unfortunately, many of the teams had one or more members that didn’t meet our various selection criteria. Our recent posts for Country Reps and Booming Communities provided guidelines that cover these criteria.

Team Leaders should study those guidelines and carefully check all potential team members against them.

Voting patterns have been a key factor.

Remember, it is always best to vote for real people making good posts…

And manual curation is always the safest.

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We look forward to seeing the August set of Community Curation teams in action - particularly Team Lucky Dip.

Keep following Steemitblog for news of further changes coming for September.

Thank you

The Steemit Team