MANUAL CURATION - I'm back!

Yo yo!

If anyone here knows my history and place in our community, he/she will know how much I appreciate manual curators and manual curation. It is something I really hold in a high place, probably something more than being a witness.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to attack the witness position. I am just sincerely happy when I see genuine engagement and people willing to invest their time into manual curation. Just like I know that we need our witnesses to do a great job to keep this blockchain safu and smooth, I also know that genuine engagement is something small that can push our blockchain on a whole another level.

Don't get me wrong again... :) I'm not talking about manual curation where curators know who is creating fairly good posts and then upvoting them always. I am talking about real manual curation where the curator literally reads every post and deciding whether to curate it or not.

It is a special feeling for me. It is putting me into a position to know my community and how it breathes. It is a place where one can grow bunch of ideas that can benefit us.

Back in the early days of my crypto journey, I realized that I want to be a curator and that it is a perfect role for me. I worked my ass off to be in the community, help it grow and I was very lucky to be in a couple of curator positions.

I curated for Hive account@hivegc, Hive account@vimm, Hive account@ocd, and Hive account@dtube. I cannot pretend that it wasn't hard to do that since you need to spend a lot of time to be good at it. But, it was worth it because those were my best days on our blockchain.

I'm not talking about the monetary benefits I had. because I had them. I'm talking about that special feeling where you feel like a part of the community and something big. A feeling where you grow as a person and where you are the wheel that is pushing the whole community forward.

Unfortunately, due to some health issues and other reasons, I stopped curating and turned to semi auto-voting. Since then my motivation dropped and I realized that it is not the way I want to spend my time here.

It's not something I really want but I had some issues with something going on our blockchain and it seems like only time could solve that. But, I'm glad I managed to go through that all and to be now in this position.

I fell motivated and energized. Do you wonder where I got that? From our lovely members of the community. I see them all over the place. On Twitter, on Reddit, on Facebook, on Instagram. Everywhere. They are the ones that got my motivation up so I thank them from the bottom of my heart.

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From now on, I am turning off my auto-voting. I will only auto-vote a couple of communities but not people. If you want me, you can find me exploring recent posts in the all-topics section. I will be there daily and trying to find good posts and newcomers.

When I find them, I will often retweet it. I hope that others will check it out and see if they can cast a few upvotes, now and then.

All I can offer and promise is that I will read every post and watch every video before upvoting it. I always took manual curation seriously and I never tried to game it or find ways to make it easier. It is simple, if you want to manual curate, you need to invest your time in it and read every post.

There is no other way. That's the only way to genuinely grow the community and our ecosystem. It is how I see it and it is how I will do it. My way or highway :P

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I also have some liquid Hive that I will probably power up if I don't see some trade options to get more Hive from it. I'll see about that in the next 10 days or so. Until then, you know where to find me :)

I am working on my new project that could incentivize hodling. I am testing it and trying to find bugs and errors. If I see it will benefit the community, I will announce it ASAP. For now, I picked the name of the project and the logo. Good start :)