The HumanBot Curator Incubator & Link Drop v2.1

This is not a place for self promotion. Drop links to posts by other authors in the comments.

Aspiring @curie curators please read the entire post and let me know you would like to become a @curie curator when you first drop a link!

Aspiring @curie curators should also read through this entire post and my responses to previous submissions in the comments before you start dropping off links - you may pick up some valuable pointers that will save us all some time instead of rehashing the same mistakes every beginning curator makes. For extra-credit reading please review my responses to comments at the Curator Incubator v2.0 & Curator Incubator v1.

Are you looking for a place to promote your own awesome post?

Newer authors (REP < 46) can promote their own post in the comments of my step-brother @thehumanbot's Charity Upvote posts! Here is a link to the current week's Charity Upvote Post (published December 10th) but please visit the @thehumanbot blog for the most recent post if you are reading this at some date in the future. Also, how is the future? Has Steem reached the moon yet?

What is new with Version 2.1?

Nothing major has changed from v2.0, hence no new major version renumber. The big change from v1 to the v2 numbering is that @humanbot / @carlgnash is not necessarily going to check every submission for original work and award a Badge of Originality if the post is original. The first post was a great success but going through every submission with the care necessary to award a Badge of Originality took more time than I actually had to give. See the CHANGELOG at the bottom of this post for a complete list of all changes.

Who or what is @humanbot?

@humanbot is an extension of @carlgnash; in a nutshell, the content review services that @carlgnash has previously offered on his blog are moving here. In addition, there are several new initiatives in the works to support great content on Steemit that will be gracing the @humanbot blog soon - stay tuned!

What is the Curator Incubator & Link Drop?

This is a place for aspiring curators and anyone who wants to help an undervalued post be seen by more eyes. Drop links in the comments to good posts (original content only please, no copy pasta) by undervalued authors.

If you are dropping off multiple links, please drop them all off in the same comment to make this thread more manageable as it grows.

How do you define "good posts by undervalued authors"?

"Good posts by undervalued authors" is purposefully not defined here. This is open to interpretation to a certain extent and any submission of original content by another author is welcome.

How will the Curator Incubator & Link Drop help undervalued authors and posts?

• @humanbot / @carlgnash will go through as many submissions as possible, awarding a Badge of Originality to posts that are both the original work of the post author and show some true originality and creativity (as subjectively determined by moi). When a badge is awarded the author will be followed by both @carlgnash and @humanbot and the post will be upvoted from both accounts as well. Read more about the Badge of Originality here.
  
  
  
• Good original content by undervalued authors (totally subjective determination here) will also receive an @r-bot upvote and associated trailing votes.
• I encourage everyone who drops a link here to take a minute to look at some of the other posts submitted in the comments. I would love to see comments from users of this link drop when I do go check on posts that have been submitted here! If you like a post, please tell the post author what you like about the post, or why you like it.
• Consider helping me curate the links in the comments here by upvoting submissions that you think are particularly good, to bring them up higher in the list.
  

  Please do not drop links to your own posts here

  
  This is not a space for self promotion. Dropping a link to your own post in the comments is a violation of the totally non-binding terms of service and may result in an alien spacecraft visiting your domicile and testing out the new transmogrification ray... but at the very least your post will be ignored.
  

  To the aspiring @curie curators

  
  @carlgnash is a curator for @curie. Let me speak in the first person here for a second as @carlgnash. I have achieved top curator status for @curie the past three weeks running and have every intention of doing so to the best of my ability in future weeks as well. Yes, this does mean that I can recommend curators to @curie any week that I was top curator the previous week. No, this does not mean you should DM me or otherwise harass me about nominating you. This post is the official channel for you to impress me with your curation ability. You can do this in several ways:
• First, do not drop me links to your own posts or DM me about a curator nomination unless I specifically tell you to DM me. If you fail to follow these instructions, you will be instantly and forevermore blacklisted from future @curie nomination by me.
• Read this entire post and my responses to previous submissions in the comments before you start dropping off links - you may pick up some valuable pointers that will save us all some time instead of rehashing the same mistakes every beginning curator makes. For extra-credit reading please review my responses to comments at the Curator Incubator v1.
• Notify me that you are interested in becoming a @curie curator when you first drop a link off here in the comments.
• Drop me links to posts that you think are truly exceptional here in the comments so I can get a feel for your curation style, what you are looking for and what your idea of exceptional is.
• Please tell me why you feel the post is exceptional. Clearly articulating why you feel a post is exceptional and worthy of @curie adds bonus points to your submission.
• You do not have to stick to the @curie guidelines - I am more interested in getting a feel for what kind of content you think is exceptional.
• Bonus points if you submit good original posts outside of the fields of art/music/photography/travel blogging. It is harder to find good original content in areas like gaming, science, health, etc. There is a lot of copy pasta and it is often much more difficult to tell with those kinds of posts if it is plagiarism. Prove to me you can identify quality original content in tags like this!
• Read through the posts that are left here in the comments by other users and tell me in the comments here if you think any are exceptional, and if so, why you feel that way. Please do not go through the comments here and trash submissions, telling me why you think they suck. Only reply to a post submitted by someone else in the comments here if you think it is an awesome post, and in that case, please say why you feel this way. If you can clearly articulate what you like about a post dropped here by another user, that will be points in your favor when I consider recommending you to @curie.
• I encourage you to leave good thoughtful comments in response to posts that you find through the incubator. If you like a post, please tell the post author what you like about the post, or why you like it. As I work my way through submissions you will earn bonus points if I see you have been actively engaged in commenting.
• Check posts that are submitted here for plagiarism. If you can prove that a post submitted here for review is plagiarized, please leave any proof you have (link to the original content, suspicious posting patterns by the author, garbled language that seems to have been translated by software, etc.) here in the comments. A big part of being a @curie curator is being able to detect plagiarized content. Prove to me that you have a talent for this and you are ahead of the game.

Cheers - @humanbot / @carlgnash

Let the link dropping commence!

original @humanbot art by @carlgnash

CHANGELOG:
v2.1: 12.11.17 4:06am UTC

• Updated link to point to current @thehumanbot Charity Upvote Post
• Updated version change text to reflect no major changes since v2.0

v2.0.1: 11.20.17 9:06pm UTC

• Instruction added for aspiring @curie curators to read the entire post and responses to comments before dropping links; extra credit-reading link to v1 comments
• Instruction added "If you are dropping off multiple links, please drop them all off in the same comment to make this thread more manageable as it grows"

v2.0: 11.13.17 10:02pm UTC

• Name change to "The HumanBot Curator Incubator & Link Drop" from "The HumanBot Curator Incubator | Link Drop | Original Works Verifier"
• @carlgnash / @humanbot no longer promises to review every submission, but will review as many as time allows
• Link added to step-brother @thehumanbot for a place that authors can self promote their own posts
• Instructions to aspiring @curie curators updated and expanded

v1.0.1: 11.8.17 1:52am UTC

• Added Badge of Originality art and post link
• Added original works authors will receive a @humanbot follow
• Clarified original works will receive either a @humanbot upvote or a @carlgnash upvote (whichever is greater)
• Edited "To the aspiring Curie curator" section to encourage commenting on posts, and to encourage non art/music/photography/travel posts