Have you heard of @C-squared yet? It's MANUAL CURATION by an awesome group of steemians :)

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Hey everyone,

I just wanted to take a moment to promote a fairly new person here called @C-squared (Curation Collective). It was started very recently by a few folks from @curie, like @carlgnash, who is a firm believer in the art of curation. Their profile tag reads,

Supporting all curation efforts on the Steem blockchain

and let me tell you, they do that perfectly!

If you have a curation post (a post that supports others' work), there is even a place where you can share it in their discord channel. Of course, always check in the general area first to see if it applies. As many of you know, I am one of the judges in @thedarkhorse's Pay it Foward Curation Contest where entrants need to write about two posts from someone with a reputation of 50 or lower, and last week I placed that post in the @c-squared's Discord channel. @c-squared not only upvoted @thedarkhorse's post, but he upvoted all the entrant's curation posts, and took the time to visit their two featured steemians and upvoted those as well. Talk about a perfect fit with our paying it forward mentality!

In his travels, @carlgnash also chooses from the @c-squared upvotes to send to @curie as well. So it is a win-win all around :) Here's a link to his latest post explaining it all!

Here is their invite link for Discord where they also host two contests for "genuine commenting"; one is for those who comment the most on the posts upvoted by @c-squared, and the other is for the member who is highest in @abh12345's Curation League (those posts come out every Sunday).

If contests aren't your thing, but your feed looks like mine (a real mess:), then their Discord channel is a wonderful place to find true quality posts to peruse.

So kudos and big thanks to @c-squared, @carlgnash and the rest of the crew who deem manual curation an important part of steemit.

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