The VYB Curation Project (VCP) swaps out curators every week to provide a more varied approach to content curation.
Curators have the freedom to vote as they like with the understanding that all of their outgoing votes will be published in a distribution data post on the 
Inside this post you'll find:
trail and how to support
An Aware Curator is someone who knows that the
An Unsuspecting Curator is someone who doesn't know they're being followed by the trail.
The previous week's Aware Curators were: 
The previous week's Unsuspecting Curators were: 
Aware Curators receive a 5,000 VYB and 5,000 POB delegation for the duration of their curation block. Unsuspecting Curators do not receive delegations.
The new Aware & Unsuspecting Curators have been trail followed by
The VCP Distribution Data post containing all of the Aware Curator's outgoing votes will be published from the 
If you've been curating for the VCP during the past week, you now have the opportunity to share your favourite content of the past 7 days with the whole community.
Please drop a reply to this post with the content of your choosing (one post or comment only) and we'll feature it below.
'@' mentions will be removed during the first post edit to prevent notification spam.
If you'd like to curate for the VYB Curation Project please complete one of the options below as an application and share it as a reply to this post.
What is the account username that you'd like to curate from?
What are the main motivations fuelling your desire to curate for the VYB Curation Project?
Are you comfortable sharing personal feedback about your efforts during the curation block?
Do you understand that all your outgoing votes will be shared publicly in a VCP Distribution Data post for the duration of your curation block? (example)
Do you have auto-voting or curation trails set up on the account you would like to curate from? If yes, are you happy to remove these so your curation efforts are 100% manual?
Do you understand that abuse through auto-voting as an Aware Curator (including proxy-voting through curation trails) while curating for the VCP during your curation block as a lead curator, will result in your account being blacklisted from curating in the future?
Do you agree that VCP Curatorship Applications with more detail and information about the person behind the account provide a greater degree of insight for curatorship selection?
If you are selected for VCP Curatorship, are you happy to receive an on-chain comment reply (to one of the latest comments you've published) from a VCP Admin to inform you of the upcoming curation block you'll be curating in? The comment will be at least 7 days in advance to provide flexibility and potential changes.
Are you aware that it's your responsibility to curate manually with 100% freedom while being followed by the
Will you update the VCP Admin and other curators in the Curator Changeover post about any problems that are causing stress and unnecessary pressure to your current circumstances, so that flexibility and support can be provided to ensure that your health and wellbeing come first before curating for the VCP?
Freedom to write/share whatever you want about yourself as an application. Creativity and self-expression are yours to explore, however you choose. The account that posts the reply is the account that is put forward for curating.
Each week there will be 3 Aware Curators and 2 Unsuspecting Curators chosen with help from the application process. We'll experiment with the new process as the weeks go by and will assess the application flow to further decide on a reasonable method for curator selection.
For example: We could choose 3 Aware Curators per week, 2 from option 1 applications, 1 from option 2 applications. We could select Aware Curators only from option 1 applications and Unsuspecting Curators from option 2. We could select applications that are only verified by the community through some form of the voting process. There are plenty of options to be explored and tested.
Randomization within the curator selection process is a future goal that will assist with decentralization when this process can be set up to provide curator selections on a wider scale. This will be kept in mind as the project develops.
While continued responses are not required as a curator, these feedback prompts below are shared in the post to help improve and fine-tune the VCP curation model. Feel free to use the prompts as aid with potential feedback responses to this post (or go rogue and share your experiences in your own style).
The first prompt is for curators who are currently curating, the second is for curators who have previously been curating, and the last prompt is for curators who are looking to curate in the future.
How are your efforts going so far during your curation block? Are there any issues you are experiencing that require attention from the VCP Admin?
After reflecting on your previous curation block, is there anything you'd do differently? Have you noticed any issues within the Distribution Data post regarding your outgoing votes or how they're presented? Do you have any suggestions that will help other curators during their curation block?
Do you have any concerns about curating for the VYB Curation Project? Are there any questions you would like answered by the VCP Admin before submitting your VCP Curatoship Application or before your upcoming curation block, if so, what are they?
All curators currently active are trail followed by the
ex: VYB Curator upvotes content at 80%.
Here are the current trail followers supporting the curation trail and below the image are some examples of how their votes will be applied after
ex: VYB Curator upvotes content at 85%. 
ex: VYB Curator upvotes content at 40%. 
ex: VYB Curator upvotes content at 60%. 
If you would like to support the VYB Curation Project, follow this link to access the hive.vote curation trail application so you can review the trail. If you have any further questions about the trail, please leave a comment below.
This section is for recent changes to the VYB Curation Project made during the previous week. As this is the first iteration of the changelog we will share some of the adjustments made since the February Update post was made and next week we'll sync back up with real-time.
has been dropped as the main publishing account for the Distribution Data post. Moving forward these posts will be published on with a 100% beneficiary being split as follows: 80% for the data collator, 20% for vyb.fund.
(the strongly merit-based process for curation) has been temporarily shelved while we make the required adjustments for communication and improvement via . The VYB Check process is ready for the automation steps that are required for efficient on-chain workflow.The
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