It would be interesting (and useful) to separate the submission of content to the Curator queue from direct feeding from the blockchain, instead pulling from a bin of content which is itself the result of either automated or manual submission, a filter which lives between the blockchain and the database and only lets content through which fulfill some condition or something as straightforward as a Google Sheet to which authorized users or processes put links for consideration.

That would definitely enable standalone teams with thematic or content-oriented purposes to make better use of Curator for its intended purpose. It would open up the possibility of "submitting to Curator" for certain communities if that's how they wanted to run things as well as automated filter discovery.

This is part of that "breaking things down into Producers and Consumers" thing that can be so useful for creating online services.