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<center><sup>*Cover art by - @aaronleang*</sup></center>


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Welcome to the **163rd** 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 $0.10 - $1.43!
 
**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
 
<center>**Your Quality Curator ~( @goldendawne )~ Presents:**</center>
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|@wisewoof |  homesteading |
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[How I Became A Homesteader- Rainbow Ranch](https://steemit.com/homesteading/@wisewoof/how-i-became-a-homesteader-rainbow-ranch)
>Most people's journey to homesteading starts with them purchasing land or selling their house in town. Not mine! I must admit I'm really excited to tell you all about this part of my life! After I left off from my previous storyI ended up on this beautiful 60 acres just on the outskirts of Kelowna 

Come along for an adventure of a lifetime! See how @wisewoof and her family started their journey to becoming homesteaders. See how they transformed their property into what it is today.
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|@ahmadfarjianda|  indonesia |
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[Sunday Afternoon](https://steemit.com/indonesia/@ahmadfajrianda/sore-minggu)
>Very crowded visitors who come to this beach when the day comes Sunday. I also took the time to relax while enjoying a fresh young coconut... While I was relaxing, I was hungry and saw the seller of typical beach snack meatballs 

Ahhh, a nice relaxing Sunday afternoon on he beach! What could be better than that? Looks as if @ahmadfajrianda had a perfect day sunning himself and enjoying some coconut and other beach activities. 
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|@wilfredn |  blog |
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[How Much Are You Actually Paying For Your Upvote Bot? A Quick Look At @upvotewhale & @drotto](https://steemit.com/blog/@wilfredn/how-much-are-you-actually-paying-for-your-upvote-bot-a-quick-look-at-upvotewhale-and-drotto)
>A while ago, I created and made freely available a simple Upvote Bot Profitability Calculator in the form of a Google Sheet … If you haven't heard about it, Steem Bot Tracker keeps a running tally of the upvote bots out there...

Do you use an Upvote bot? Do you know what you're getting for your investment? Well, @wilfredn is here to help you figure it out. Stop over and read this post, do some quick calculations and see where you stand with your return investment. 

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|@joeliew |  teammalaysia |
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[Junior Two Students Gathering](https://steemit.com/teammalaysia/@joeliew/44vbra)
>As the beginning of the second day a lot of married students go back to their parents in the morning. However, some students are still single and do not need to go back to their parents. So do not know where to go, I am very happy. We have a classmate @ jacky He also took time to give us his family reunions 

With the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations, @joeliew and his single friends decided to stay at school and continue the fesitivities. From laughs to wonderful food, it looks as if everyone there had a great time. Stop over and share some of the memories of this celebration.
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|@creativesoul |  gratefulvibes |
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[Attitude Of Gratitude Pursuit](https://steemit.com/gratefulvibes/@creativesoul/attitude-of-gratitude-pursuit-gratefulvibes-2-19-18)

>While I cannot say that recently getting the worst flu that I have experienced in many years makes me feel the slightest bit grateful...I can however find the silver lining! Because I tend to throw myself into dozens of projects with so much force and energy that I burn out fast and frequently 

Come on over and let @creativesoul know you're thinking of them. Just getting over being sick, they are realizing how their health is important and this bout with an illness helped them see how much they have been balancing lately.

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# <center>NEWS</center>



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# <center>The new and improved Qurator bot is here! </center>

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## Why the new bot? 

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The current bot had a 24 hour timer built in, thus you can only get upvotes 24 hours apart. Missing that window and you might not get your upvote. This resulted in posts not getting upvotes. The old EDIT and UPDATE trick always worked its magic but was a bit of a hassle. 

### Out with the old, in with the new!

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The new bot will search for posts to upvote 24 hour after your previous upvote. If you posted 2 post in a 24 hour period it will go back and upvote your posts. (More details to follow)

#### The new bot will be active withing the next 24 hours. We are busy getting everything ready and transferring databases. During this time both @qurator and @qurator-tier-0 will be offline. Please understand and be patient while we handle the necessary upgrades. 

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*The bot is completely new and even though we did test it, there might still be some errors that we have to work out during the next few days.* 

### *UPDATE: We are seeing some minor issues with the bot and will be testing it more on the @qurator-tier-0 account. Once it is stable on that account and all the bugs have been sorted out we will let it go live on the main @qurator account.*

### *UPDATE 2: Worked out most of the kinks and will be running it for a while on @qurator-tier-0. If the test goes well then we will start using it on @qurator. =)*


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# <center>Steemit Challenges on Discord</center>

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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! 

<center>![Stresskiller Discord - Steemit challenges.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYw13BqQBAW7EEJCwPthdXvogHgxaZjQEaTEtatQezzQa/Stresskiller%20Discord%20-%20Steemit%20challenges.png)</center>

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# <center>New Tasty Tuesday is out! Go cast your upvotes! </center>


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We will be doing a weekly Tasty Tuesday that will focus on food related blogs. Photography and Food is something that gets overlooked by Steemit quite a lot so we want to help out a bit by getting more people involved in both categories. 

To view our latest Tasty Tuesday please visit this [link](https://steemit.com/qurator/@qurator/qurator-s-tasty-tuesday-12-food-competition-nomination-rules-changed-please-read) to cast your vote for your favorite dish! 










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# <center>Did you vote for your favorite Photo Friday yet? The newest edition just launched! </center>



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Qurator will be hosting a Photo Friday each week where 5 members will be selected to win a Tier 5 membership! 

Head over to [Photo Friday](https://steemit.com/photography/@qurator/qurator-s-photo-friday-photography-competition-12) to cast your vote and show some support! Who knows, maybe next week it's your turn to receive some votes and stand a chance to win! =)



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> The bot is Qurator exclusive and will upvote all Qurites with an upvote of 2.65 times the worth of what you send it, up to $1.20+!

> Delegators will see payouts of 90% of all SBD earned by the bot. 








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<center>Qurator's Discord Channel that all Steemians can join - https://discord.gg/pJtWp57</center>

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## <center>New Tiers Update </center>

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<center>The latest Tiers update is out and updated. You can see the post [here](https://steemit.com/qurator/@qurator/qurator-tiers-and-upvote-weights-update-20-02-2018-or-bot-update). </center>

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## <center>Steemauto Curation Trail</center>

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<center>RIP Streemian and hello Steemauto! The new curation trail is active and running! If you would like to support your fellow Qurites or just earn some extra curation feel free to join our curation trail that is active on Steemauto. 

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 </center>

[Steemauto guide and registration info](https://steemit.com/guide/@scrooger/steemauto-full-guide-and-how-to-register)




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# <center>Want bigger upvotes? Check out Tiers and how to gain access to them</center>

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| 	TIER |                   Requirements        | 
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| ![TIER 0.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRndn3w9sCRLbkEeUh7TbWd1Kah9nsT38C73y7koqT75Z/TIER%200.png)  | Basic 4 STEEM registration fee. Basic upvote for life from @qurator. | 
|  ![Tier 1.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmScZsmhMG52bDSDcAiFcPKBT1Y3ToR3ppJ5Yv3Lj9mrFQ/Tier%201.png)| **Delegate 100SP to @qurator**  *or* **Upvote @qurator's posts 4+ times a week** | 
|  ![Tier 2.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmR6L8b23qajZZL3SkNsCyy8reb1GS8pXAnbeoN3UCDPDi/Tier%202.png)|  **Delegate 200SP to Qurator** *or*  **Upvote @qurator's posts 7+ times a week**  | 
| ![Tier 3.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNpUaYm9BkWUifYNbczrLKF87HfDneaFFa23Y7K7DLbHT/Tier%203.png)  | **Delegate 300SP to @qurator** |
|![Tier 4.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVyKcApqGQ28wp2Ev6CnqHRpxzyMGpFJUxVhimHM9RYrC/Tier%204.png) | **Delegate 400SP to @qurator** | 
|  ![Tier 5.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmca21jVPRTdA3gx2bxCJS83CSCkfE6PyFVHnWDYEUoeW9/Tier%205.png) | **Delegate 500SP+ to @qurator**  | 

### Delegation links: 

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|  [100](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=qurator&vesting_shares=205303.639667%20VESTS) | [200](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=qurator&vesting_shares=409999.639667%20VESTS) |  [300](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=qurator&vesting_shares=615999.639667%20VESTS)| [400](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=qurator&vesting_shares=819999.639667%20VESTS)| [500](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=qurator&vesting_shares=1025999.639667%20VESTS)

*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!* 





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|	Members	|	1068|   |  
|	Steem Power	|	2675|  | 
|	Delegated	|	     98 720| (+807)  |  
|	Voting Power	|	80.97% 	| |
|	Upvote Weight T0 (@qurator-tier-0)	|	6% 	| $0.10|
|	Upvote Weight T1	|	1.1%	|$0.29        |
|	Upvote Weight T2	|	1.9%	|$0.57      |
|	Upvote Weight T3	|	3.6%	|$0.86  |
|	Upvote Weight T4	|	4.6%	|$1.14    |
|	Upvote Weight T5	|	5.9%	|$1.43       |






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<center>**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.**</center>

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# <center>Your Quality Content Curator - Banners</center>

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Feel free to use our any of our banners created by awesome Steemians.

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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<center><sup>Thank you @mrlightning |  @rebelheart | @royalfinest for your designs.</sup> </center>


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##### <center><sup>The Qurator project is brought to you by: </sup></center>

<center><sup>@scrooger | @boontjie | @goldendawne | @ewkaw | @ackhoo | @em3 | @brumest | @stresskiller</sup></center>

<center><sup>Special thanks to @kryzsec for the SBD contributions. </sup></center>


# <center>For more information about the Qurator Project and how to join click [HERE](https://steemit.com/qurator/@qurator/qurator-2-0-update-post-guidelines-or-registration-details-or-tier-changes)</center>