Thanks @ykdesign for the Birthday Picture
<h2><center>Would you look at that!
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<p dir="auto">The Qurator Project just turned <strong>1! That is 365 days of Qurator! What does that mean though? Let's look at a quick overview! =)
<p dir="auto">First of all, a huge thank you to all our Qurites! Without you, it would not be possible. Thank you for your support, kind words and all the beautiful posts we got to see and read on a daily basis. We met so many amazing Steemians and spent so many hours chatting and laughing. You are all truly amazing!
<h2>We couldn't be happier to have you all with us!
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<p dir="auto">Let's have a quick look at some stats! We know Steemians love stats and so do we, stats we are extremely proud of.
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<li>Members: 1500+ accounts manually reviewed and accepted into the Qurator project
<li>365 Daily Qurator Posts = 1825 posts featured
<li>40 Photo Friday Competitions = 200 photography posts featured as well as 40 winners!
<li>40 Tasty Tuesday Competitions = another 200 food related posts featured and 40 more winners!
<li>13 Toss up Thursdays, free for all promotion = 26 winners!
<li>12 Shining Qurites!
<li>10 Shooting stars!
<p dir="auto"><strong>Add it all up and it is close to 2500 posts featured! What a year it has been!
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<h1><center>In pure Qurator fashion, it is time to give some extra rewards to some awesome members!
<h1><center>It is time to celebrate!
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<p dir="auto">And we could not celebrate better than with you - our members. Let's do something fun then! Let's have a little Q party! You are all invited! But wait... we have some special activities prepared too!
<p dir="auto">Create one of the <strong>Birthday Specials listed below and post it in the comment section. You do not have to write a separate post for it, but please include a Qurator related image, logo or text so we know it was made just for the Q-Party! :)
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<li><p dir="auto"><strong>Birthday Cards!<br />
We love birthday cards! Prepare something for this occasion. You can choose the technique: it can be a drawing, painting, collage, graphic... anything! Make sure you include our little "Q logo" somewhere on the card!
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What would a card be without Birthday Wishes?
<li><p dir="auto"><strong>Songs<br />
After all the wishes and cards it is time to party... with music!<br />
Play or sing a song for us. We will love to hear you :)
<li><p dir="auto"><strong>Birthday food and drinks<br />
Yes, we need food too. Bake a cake, prepare some snacks or drinks... lots of drinks! Time to party :D<br />
Remember to take a photo of all the deliciousness with a little card saying "Q birthday party".
<p dir="auto">Of course what a terrible hosts we would be if we didn't have something special for all the fantastic guests!
<h1><center>The best comments will get a juicy upvote from us!
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<p dir="auto">But that is not all! We will also give away some extra Tier upgrades for the funniest and most creative ones.
<p dir="auto">Be original, be creative and most of all have fun!
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<p dir="auto">You will have exactly 5 days to prepare something for us, and win some extra Q upvote love. Once we have everything to have an awesome party then we will send those upvotes flying! :)<br />
<strong>Deadline - Tuesday 18.09.2018, 23:59 UTC.
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<h1><center>Here is to another year!
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<h3><center><span>A message from the Duck himself(<a href="/@scrooger">@scrooger)...
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<p dir="auto">One year already? I almost can't believe it, what started as something that feels like a garage startup blossoming into a service that for so many to rely on for some extra support and guidance. I have to thank my amazing team, without them I might have thrown in the towel months ago. They keep the Q engine well oiled and operating.
<p dir="auto">Then there are the members, you are the real MVP's and if I could I would blow Q's entire VP on all of you! Sadly that is not always the case. We do not really have much whale support and still rely on leasing Steem Power with our payouts to ensure some larger rewards for all. All the members who chose to delegate to support the projects or to earn some extra upvotes, I am truly thankful! You make up a large chunk of our SP and I am so happy to see the power in numbers! you are all supporting each other and we are loving it!
<p dir="auto">We still believe in a manual way of doing things, the most automated part of Qurator is our upvote bot and Tier calculator. The rest is still handled manually because we feel a that is the right way to do it when it comes to keeping up quality and consistency on Steemit. No bot will ever judge quality as good as humans do.
<p dir="auto">Thank you everyone for voting for our witness server, we set it up mainly to help the Qurator account grow so we can show better support for all, then we realized there are loads of projects that have the same goals as us, quality curation and support. We decided to delegate quite a bit of our own Steem Power and witness profits to other projects. Standing together, post by post!
<h4><center>Thanks again and looking forward to another year of supporting all our members!
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<h5><center><sup>The Qurator project is brought to you by:
<p dir="auto"><center><sup><span><a href="/@scrooger">@scrooger | <a href="/@boontjie">@boontjie | <a href="/@goldendawne">@goldendawne | <a href="/@ewkaw">@ewkaw | <a href="/@ackhoo">@ackhoo | <a href="/@brumest">@brumest | <a href="/@stresskiller">@stresskiller | <a href="/@blacklux">@blacklux
<h1><center>Like what we do? Consider voting for us as a Steemit witness.
<h1><center><code>Active Witness rank: 70
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<li>Via <a href="https://steemit.com/~witnesses" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">steemit.com.
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As we all know, a Papillon is a Butterfly in French and we want to thank @qurator for helping us to fly. Blessings on your first birthday and may we continue with this competition every year until your 100th birthday!
Wise Monkey 1st Birthday greetings from South Africa....
On Steem there's a user
And now it it's a whole year later
We like it so much we'd buy them an uber Who goes by the handle of @scrooger He created the thing called @qurator
On the blockchain you see
there can be a lack of quality
but when good stuff is found
qurator spreads it around
thus floating the value of SBD
of all its merits bright
I could expound upon all night
but the one I hold dearest
is what you see clearest
on good stuff it shines a light
felicidades, zorionak ,Congratulations,félicitations,parabens etc...
Happy birthday to youuuu!!!
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I'm so thankful for you!
Did someone mention ducks? Greetings from my gang!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can belive Im part of this community from almost the beggining, It was fantastic to be one of the first 1000 and I dont say it just for the 2 Steems saved hahaha, no really talking searius It was awesome to support @qurator and @feedyourminnows since almost the start and look how we all qurites grow up as part of the Qurator family!!
From the bottom of my hearth, congratilations @scrooger for creating such and amazing project and thanks so much for doing so!!!!!
It's ironically to say that you are a little one, having only one year (comparing with a little baby) but you, Qurator, are a little baby loved by all of us which are growing by you and your awesome job on Steemit.
So on your birthday, I want to say a HUGE thank you for doing everything you do and for believing in people and their quality content!
Happy birthday, Qurator baby!!! 💓
Happy first birthday
We went to celebrate the party.
Happy birthday Q!
Let this be the first of many! :D
Awesome, well done Q. I appreciate all of the hard work.
Congrats on the Milestone! I am proud to be part of this great community! Looking forward to what we can create and support together for years to come!
Happiest happy birthday to you @qurator and the whole team behind you, @scrooger, @goldendawne and everyone else!!! Much love to you all. May qurator grow strong and steady in the coming days!
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HAPPY B-DAY!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday to Q~ Will prepare a gift for you soon!
Happy Birthday! 🎂🎉
Where has the time gone! One year already!
CONGRATULATIONS to all involved from members to the staff!
And thank you @scrooger for all that you do!
Happy birthday, @qurator! What an achievement in such a short time! Keep up the good work, and thanks to all the team for the amazing support! Thanks, @scrooger!
How Qute! :3 Qurator is a one year old now! Haha.
Seriously, happy birthday @qurator, and congratulations to the whole team! Thank you for the support so far. Long live Qurator! :)
Qute little Qurator :))
Happy birthday qurator...
Happy birthday Q!!!
May you prosper every year
Maybe no time for this contest, but let me wish @qurator happy birthday. Thank you the strong team behind qurator that making all in order. Its not easy task but all of you did it great.
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Still 4 days left ;)
I will try to do one for sure..
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happy birthday qurator ❤😊❤
Happy birthday to you, @qurator!🎈🎁🥂
Looks like our accounst were born on a near date!!!
And ... Almost 1 year of being memmber of the Q team!!!
Cheers!!! for the years to come!!!!
Happy b day! Where i can find the source of the logo to design the card?
And how i can become a member?
Here you go =)
Thanks! ill do my best ;)
To become a member you send 4 Steem as registration fee. We will check your account and send you message back to your wallet. After approval you become our Qurite.
You can check this post for more details :)
It has been a year and I am very thankful that in my journey in this community that I found you. Thank you for guiding and helping us minnows. I wish for more years to come! Viva!Happy One Year @qurator! 🎂🎂🎂
yay! congrats on an award winning 1st year, this group is amazing and one of the very first i joined. thank you for all your wonderful posts and great work.
Steem On,
Eagle Spirit
Happy birthday ! :D
Happy birthday! @qurator
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Happy Birthday @qurator 🎉🎉🎉
Happy birthday @qurator
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Happy birthday, Qurator! So fast one year! Great job to @scrooger and awesome team :)
Happy birthday. Voting you guys for witness! :D
Happy Birthday to the Qurator community !
Cheers to you all :D
woho its amazing thing and glad to be a part of qurator. happy birthday and this 365 days will become 365 years in feature.
Happy Birthday, I think you can also tell us members birthday when they joined, I think I have joined pretty early might be my association with Qurator will alse be turned 1 year in some time.
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