Welcome to the 16th 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 $0.09 - $0.32!

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 ~( @theleapingkoala )~ Presents:

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@bmj	steemit

Community Engagement - The Heart Of Steemit - Get Connected

In one of his posts, @bmj is advocating steemians to engage and connect with each others, be it in smaller or larger communities, because Community Engagement is The Heart Of Steemit

@bmj is part of The Minnow Support Project and now, he is part of our @qurator group. Let's all welcome @bmj and look forward to more of his engaging posts and efforts.

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@bobiecayao	mabinay

Quick Sight Seeing at Mabinay Spring, Cool place for Family Outing and Picnic

In his latest post, @bobiecayao gave us a virtual tour of Mabinay Spring in Philippines. The deep green spring, which is perfect for kayaking, surrounded by several colorful cottages that can be rented for a night stay or two. You have kids? Not a problem! They can have fun in the swimming pool, the hanging bridge or the zip lines, which have been made for everyone to enjoy a little adventure.

Thank you @bobiecayao for informative tour. Mabinay Spring would be on our list if we visit the Philippines

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@eco-alex	life

ecoTrain Question Of The Week and $30 SBD Giveaway: "What one thing do you think individual people can do to make a positive impact on humanity?". Enter for a chance to win AND a chance to become a passenger on the ecoTrain!

In his page, @eco-alex writes about many topics, however, one of the highlights of his page is the ecoTrain Question Of The Week contest. Its a great way to read, write, connect, think and express.

The question of this week is: "What one thing do you think individual people can do to make a positive impact on humanity?"

For the rules, visit @eco-alex page or the link above. You still have 2 more days to write and join this week's contest. But fear not! Even if you didn't join this one, you will have other chances to join. Just keep an eye on @eco-alex's blog.

Please join me in thanking @eco-alex for his initiatives to encourage communication and creativity between steemians and welcome him as a new @qurator group member.

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@joanstewart	african

How Elephant and Warthog Got Their Tusks ~ African Folklore

@joanstewart shares with us one of the folk stories he heard during his trip to Africa. The story narrates a trade between an elephant and a warthog and has a beautiful moral in it.

To @joanstewart, thank you for sharing the folk story and the morals of it with us. We are happy to have you as part of the @qurator team.

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@positivesteem	christianity

I Will Arise (An Original Poem)

A poet, a spiritual man and a positive spirit are all descriptions fit for @positivesteem.

Take some time to visit @positivesteem and enjoy his positivity-filled-poetry. Thank you @positivesteem, we are happy to have you with us @qurator

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News

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Tiered Upvotes Live and Updated!

Qurator just posted its Upvote Tiers update. All members can visit this post to see in what tier they are and what kind of upvotes they can expect from Qurator.

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." --Henry Ford

With the growth in members and the Tiers being activated we saw quite a decrease in T0 vote weight/value. It is still upvotes for life so as long as you keep posting you will receive your upvotes from Qurator. We will keep leasing in order to support as many minnows as we can. We rely on teamwork though. If you support us with Delegations, Upvotes or SP leases we can bump you up a Tier and you can receive larger upvotes while supporting the lower tiered members. If you don't really participate or take part you will always stay at Tier 0.

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Win with comments!

Top comments on The Daily Qurator stand a chance to win a Tier 3 Membership for 1 week! So keep those comments coming! We will do this once a week in order to boost some more participation. Writing a well thought out comment might land you in a higher Tier for a week. Each week a new Top Comment will be chosen. =)

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Partner up @enazwahsdarb for more minnow support, first results.

Every Saturday @enazwahsdarb does a Shout-Out Saturday post where he selects one minnow that really deserves some extra attention and upvotes. This week's Shout-Out goes to @jokossita! Give her some love and visit her page!

Qurator was initially going to give a free lifetime membership to the winner but since she was already a member @enazwahsdarb decided to give her 5SBD, his upvote, support and a massive Shout-Out. Qurator will be featuring her post in tomorrow's edition of the Daily Qurator, be sure to check in for that. Congratulations @jokossita!

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Qurator will be increasing its registration fee

Qurator is growing really fast and we want to keep supporting our members and investors with worthwhile upvotes.
After we hit 100 members the Registration Fee will be bumped up to 2 SBD/STEEM.

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Tomorrow's Resteem will go to @em3

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More info about Qurator

Qurator will be a service that helps users who spent their blood, sweat and tears on content creation to get noticed and rewarded for their efforts. Steemit has seen some incredible growth in the last few months and even though this is amazing for the platform, it might make it harder for the new Steemians to get noticed. With daily posts hovering in the 100 000's you can imagine how hard it is to get the attention you deserve for all your hard work!

That's where @qurator comes in. We want to help those who work really hard but still see little to no rewards on their posts.

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What exactly does @qurator do?

• We will focus on users who post quality content. Each day 5 members will be selected and their posts will be featured in the Daily Qurator.

• Once a day we will resteem a high-quality post from one of our members.

• Members will get an upvote from @qurator once a day. We are limiting upvotes to once a day because we want to keep it fair for all the members.

• More features and give aways will follow as @qurator grows.

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How do you become a member?

We want to give back to the community, but this also means we need some support from the community. We will charge a once off fee of 1 Steem/SBD to register as a @qurator member. You can enter your name or the name of a friend you would like to join @qurator in the memo field. This will give you a lifetime upvote membership. We do however reserve the right to decline certain accounts if we feel they do not contribute to posting good quality content or simply find too much plagiarism or spam posts. We have declined members before, we only support original content. We also offered tier voting weights for investors and upvoters of The Daily Qurator.

You can contact @scrooger or @gingerninja on Discord or Steemit.chat and request a review. Once reviewed we will let you know if you qualify to become a member. Afterwards simply transfer the registration fee to the @qurator account and you are all set up. We might not respond right away as we are only human and also need some sleep every now and then. Rest assured the bot sending you sweet upvotes will never sleep! We also have an awesome Discord channel that will spring to life once all you awesome members join. The Discord link will be sent after registration.

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We worked out our voting weights to ensure we always stay very close or above 80% Voting Power. According to the number of members there will always be a basic voting weight.

Example 1: With 10 members each member gets a 100% upvote.
Example 2: With 20 members each member gets a 50% upvote.

Using the base upvote weight we can have Tiered Upvote Weights for investors of @qurator. Because the investors help @qurator grow bigger, the base upvote weight goes down and the investors gets bigger upvote weights. This way even the non-investors still benefit since the overall Steem Power of @qurator increases.

There are 3 ways you can become an investor in @qurator.

• Upvote The Daily Qurator post each day. This can easily be automated by using Steemvoter, follow this guide to set up Steemvoter.

• Send a certain amount of Steem (values below) to @minnowbooster with 4 qurator as you memo. This will lease SP for @qurator and give you access to a Tiered Status Upvote.

• Delegate Steem Power to @qurator. (We can help with that, simply visit sp delegation support in our Discord channel.)

TIER	Requirements	Upvote Weight
	Basic 1 STEEM/SBD registration fee. Basic upvote for life from @qurator.	Basic Upvote Weight
	Delegate 100SP to @qurator or 4 Steem sponsored lease = Tier 1 for 28 days or Upvote The Daily Qurator 4+ times a week	X1.5 Basic Vote Weight
	Delegate 200SP to Qurator or 6 Steem sponsored lease = Tier 2 for 28 days or Upvote The Daily Qurator 7 times a week	X2 Basic Vote Weight
	8 Steem sponsored lease = Tier 3 for 28 days or Delegate 300SP to @qurator	X2.5 Basic Vote Weight
	10 Steem sponsored lease = Tier 4 for 28 days or Delegate 400SP to @qurator	X3 Basic Vote Weight
	12 Steem sponsored lease = Tier 5 for 28 days or Delegate 500SP+ to @qurator	X3.5 Basic Vote Weight

Please note: For The Daily Qurator upvote related Tiers, we check the upvotes on posts once a week (Every Sunday) and adjust the Tiers accordingly

After reviewing the Tiers you can decide how you would like to jump up in tiers or invest. @gingerninja and @scrooger are available on Discord for any assistance or questions or you can comment on this post if you have any questions/concerns.

All the members can see their Tier Status once a week it will be posted in a separate post each Monday. Rest assured as investors and members go up or down in tiers their voting weights will be adjusted at the end of each day.

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Help us, help you.

All post payouts and registration fees will go towards growing the @qurator account. We believe in sharing our power and not pocketing it for ourselves. Great posts need to be noticed and we want to help with that.

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Members	76	(+11)
Steem Power	24.127
Delegated	6987
Voting Power	88%
Upvote Weight T0	14%	$0.09
Upvote Weight T1	21%	$0.14
Upvote Weight T2	27%	$0.18
Upvote Weight T3	34%	$0.23
Upvote Weight T4	-	-
Upvote Weight T5	48%	$0.32

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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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Your Quality Content Curator