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Now is the time for change. Thank you to everyone who took the time to apply to become a Steem Rep. Reading through all the applications prompted us to review the role of Steem Reps more carefully. The community has grown and evolved significantly since the Steem Representative program was first introduced. We now believe that the Steem Reps are not the most effective way to support the community. Therefore we will be closing down the Steem Representative program at the end of June. We are instead pleased to announce a major expansion of the Community Curation program. From July 1st, the four @booming accounts, each with 1.7M SP, are going to be brought into the Community Curation program. This will give a total of 11 Community Curation accounts with 13M SP between them. --- --- ### The Community Curators for July

For July we are inviting people interested in becoming Community Curators to apply in teams of three. **For July there will be a minimum SP requirement of 7500SP for each team member.** Teams will be free to vote on any types of post as long as they are not plagiarized or created by AI. We want teams to look beyond communities. There are many good posts that are outside of any communities - just directly on people’s personal blogs. Teams should seek out these often neglected authors. The Curation Teams should also allocate some of their voting power to good comments. --- --- ### How to Apply as a Community Curator Team

One member of the team should make a post including… * Details of each team member, including their brief history on Steem and any positions of responsibility they have held on the platform * The nationality, languages and country of residence of each team member * The key stats of each team member (own SP, CSI, Reputation, Delegations). Please note that each person can only be included in one application. --- --- ### Supporting Games and Apps

We are also inviting developers of new games or apps on Steem to apply for a Community Curator account for July. To apply for one of these special Community Curator accounts developers should submit an application post including… * A brief summary of what their game or app does and how it benefits the Steem platform * Details of how a Community Curation account would help their game or app develop and grow. --- --- ### Supporting Newcomers

We are aware that support for newcomers has become more variable over the last few months so we therefore want to reintroduce a Newcomers Community Curation team. This team will have one of the bigger @booming accounts to support newcomers during their first three months on the platform. For this we are looking for teams of up to five. All members of the team should be from different countries, and have a minimum of 5000 SP. The Newcomers Community Curation team should include helpful tips and guidance when they curate to help newcomers improve their posts. The team should also be very alert to fake and duplicate accounts created just to get rewards from this new curation account. Teams applying for this role should include in their application how they will deal with both these points. --- --- All types of application post should include the tag #curatorapplication in the first four tags. Teams applying to become the Newcomers Curation Team should clearly indicate this in the post title. Applications can be made in any language. **Posts should be submitted by 11.59pm UTC, on Wednesday, June 25th, 2025.** --- --- ### How Community Curators will be rewarded

Every day all teams will be allowed to allocate one full vote to a member’s post - ideally in rotation. **In total no more than 10% of the account’s voting power should be used on team members each week.** Additionally each week one member should post a report for the team in the [Steem POD community](https://steemit.com/trending/hive-166405) with a list of their top 7 posts, with a brief note of why each post was chosen. This will be the same for the Game/App Curator teams and the Newcomers team. The posts will be voted by @steemcurator01. --- --- We look forward to seeing applications from new apps and games. How many of the Community Curator accounts will be allocated to the Game / App teams will depend on what applications are submitted but it is likely to be two or three. We very much hope this initiative will provide support and encouragement to the developers who are helping enrich and broaden our platform with new games and apps. More such developments are very much needed to help Steem grow and thrive. --- --- These changes may come as a surprise to many, but we strongly feel this will be a positive move for the community. 13M SP will now be managed by the Community Curation teams which we hope will help spread rewards even more widely. We are sorry to disappoint those of you who were hoping to become Steem Reps, we hope you will instead apply to become part of the much enlarged Community Curation team. To all the Steem Reps, some of whom have served now for many years, we thank you greatly for all your work and effort. July will be an interesting and exciting month. There will be a certain amount of experimentation with the new community curation accounts. We expect there will be some further modifications to the community curation program over the coming month. Thank you to this month’s Community Curators. You are all welcome to apply again for July. The new Curation Teams will be announced by the end of the month, with a view to starting at the beginning of July. _The Steemit Team_ --- ---