The Daily Qurator #180 | Upvoting at $0.04 - $0.97
Welcome to the 180th 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 $0.04 - $0.97!
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
| @neupanedipen | blogging |
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6 Free Productive Chrome Extensions That Every Blogger Should Use
Google Chrome extensions are small software or browser extension that helps to modify Google chrome browser... Using these extensions may help you make your blogging experience fun and at the same time help you with different resources and other stuffs that are required to complete the article
See what the extensions @neupanedipen shares in this post. Do you use them? Or do you have others that you favor? Share your thoughts on extensions that can help your blogging experience.
| @oliveralexander | art |
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Top 3 Places To Visit In Stockholm, Sweden
From the Stockholm City Hall to the Royal Palace and the Treasury of the National Regimes, @oliveralexander shares some great history, images and fabulous information in this post.
| @damnthatbanana | photography |
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RAW vs JPEG- Which Should I Shoot? And Why Does It Matter?
The human eye is around 1000 times more adaptable to light than a modern camera sensor. So we can see into dark shadows (once our eyes adjust) and bright sunsets or sunrises. This is what means that a camera will struggle to capture details in anything silhoutted by the sun, or details in the sky if you expose correctly for a subject framed by the sky.
Want to know the ins-and-outs about how to take the best possible images using your camera; or maybe you want to just learn how to edit your images? Make sure to read this knowledge-filled post by @damnthatbanana; it has so great suggestions and advice.
| @mamajeani | food |
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The Frugal Feast- Orange Broccoli Beef: A Stir Fry Divine
Stir Fry is one of the fastest meals on Earth! And easiest, too! To say nothing of it being economical! The meat, being super thinly sliced, gives the feeling that you're eating more than you really are...and that meal $$ stretches! The serving in the pictures is about 3 oz. of meat. A go with of rice, simple steamed or fried, is quite inexpensive, as well
Looking for a delicious, economical and easy dinner for tonight? Well, @mamajeani has a great stir fry recipe to fill your belly and not gobble up your pocketbook. Take a look at this simple recipe and maybe you can whip it up this weekend!
| @liquidtravel | qurator |
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Have You Ever Been Beaten Over The Head With A Tobacco Leaf?
While wandering through central Cuenca, Ecuador, I came across Plaza Rotary at the corner of Gaspar Sangurima and Vargas Machuca. There I met the woman pictured above. She was part of a group of healers who met each Friday performing “limpias” for a small price... A "limpia" is a spiritual cleansing ritual thought to cleanse the body, emotions, mind, and soul removing any negative energies or thoughts
@liquidtravel decided to go through with a limpia, but has some advice for you if you decide to do it too.
Be prepared to have the shaman spit alcohol in your face, put ashes on your forehead and back, and beat you over the head with tobacco leaves
Really? What do you think about that?
NEWS
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!
Competitions!
We host weekly Photo and Food competitions. Click on the images below to view the posts and cast your votes to the nominated Qurites. You can also comment #nominatein either of the posts to stand a chance to be featured in the competitions.
| Photo Friday! | Tasty Tuesday! |
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| Toss up Thursday | Biweekly |
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 | Free for all post-promotional competition with a twist! |
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. =)
@qustodian support bot
For those who would like some extra upvotes from the Qurator project can send SBD and their link to @qustodian. The bot will upvote your post to the value of 2.65 times the amount of SBD you send it.
Send around 0.5SBD and your link to receive upvotes.
Any extra SBD will be refunded!
Upvotes limited to one every 24 hours.
Invest in @qustodian
For those who would like to invest some Steem Power. @qustodian pays out 90% of all the SBD sent to the account. Minimum of 50SP to invest, daily payouts in SBD.
Delegations links can be found below. Please remember to leave at least 50SP in your account!
Delegation links for @qustodian (NOT @QURATOR):
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Steemauto Curation Trail
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
Want bigger upvotes? Check out Tiers and how to gain access to them
| TIER | Requirements |
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 | 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:
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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 | 1165 | +5 |
| Steem Power | 3176 | |
| Delegated | 121 093 | (+111) |
| Voting Power | 78.70% | |
| Upvote Weight T0 (@qurator-tier-0) | 4% | $0.04 |
| Upvote Weight T1 | 0.5% | $0.11 |
| Upvote Weight T2 | 1.5% | $0.32 |
| Upvote Weight T3 | 3% | $0.54 |
| Upvote Weight T4 | 4% | $0.75 |
| Upvote Weight T5 | 5.5% | $0.97 |
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Simply copy and paste the link into the bottom of your post, this will be awesome support towards the project and we are sure many of you are proud to be a Qurite. =)
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@qurator I got a question. Why my posts are getting just 4% vote from @qurator-tier-0 even though I upvote @qurator posts? That's pretty shitty bargain - 4 STEEM for votes around 0.01$.
I'm not going to make 400+ posts a month, that's ridiculous.
Upvoted for visibility
We normally count the upvotes towards the Qurator account each MONDAY 12PM UTC. We need support from the members in order to keep our account big and active. Most of our profits we use to lease SP.
Those who do not really support by upvoting/delegating still get their @qurator-tier-0 vote currently worth around $0.04. This is a lifetime vote so you will eventually get it back if you on steemit for the long run.
The Tier 2 vote is currently worth $0.32 cents with the low steem prices. It's pretty easy to get into and stay in Tier 2. Just drop by each monday before 12PM utc and upvote at least 7 @qurator posts =)
It normally takes until the next cycle to get moved into the next tier. I believe they redo the list on Sundays so you should get it pretty soon. Don't give up hope! :)
Interesting and informative post
interesting post
always good stuff!
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good job..information very interesting
We can see how the markets are affecting the voting value. Hopefully, this will change once investors confidence will come back after all this bad press about the exchanges and sell-offs/hacking to manipulate the markets. Yet, to get some votes is better than nothing. Thanks again @qurator!
Yep, the markets are all down by quite a lot. Looks bad for the upvote values, but the rest is still fine. Nothing really we can do about it. Everything in steemit dropped. =P
Should be fine again in a few weeks.
Yup, just need to ride the ride. It's a good thing we like roller coasters! 😬
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not voting, my post
@qurator,
I upvote more than 7 times per week (criteria for for TIER 2), but the last few days I have been noticing only TIER 0 support.
Would appreciate any assistance and information.
Thanks,
JaiChai
Maybe you are just voting at the wrong time. We count the votes at 12PM UTC on MONDAY. Then we count all the upvotes for the week. So best to swing by before the deadline and make sure your votes are in. =)
Will do. Thanks for the info.
Namaste,
JaiChai
Thanks a lot for your amazing work, I just included you in this post : My incoming upvotes from the best witnesses and whales ! , I hope you will like my ideas about you. Thanks for being in steemit. ☺