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Thanks friends.

Hello Scratch Team.
I am requesting to become curator for the following:

Today, most people ignore most projects and view only the ones made by popular people (I.E Astro947, SpriteMaster, ETC), leaving scratchers who aren't well known to be unnoticed.

Almost every day, I see scratchers who have unique, innovative projects, but don't get enough credit for them. These people work hard on these projects, and should be given more credit than the usual "Must see projects" famous scratchers often put on their projects.

Of course, being popular isn't the only thing scratchers want out of their projects. A good, hard-worked project can be a good way to learn about scratch, and often results in better projects over time.

The sad thing is, most people make the same thing over and over: random projects.
It annoys me that scratchers like something that they almost always see. Sure, I watch them, and sometimes I like them, but one thing comes to mind before I hit Love It: Why like a project that's the same thing as many other projects?

As curator, I promise not only to show scratchers that you don't have to be popular to be good, but I will also give advice to scratchers who's projects i've curated , so they can stand up for their next project and say "I can do it!" No matter if it's a game, an animation, or a collab, everybody gets a chance to be shown.

Thank you.

I would love to be a curator on the Scratch homepage.

I would curate projects that range from a few hours old to a few weeks old, but I will mostly curate the newer projects of less-known Scratchers. I am a particular fan of puzzle games, platformers, but I also like many projects that are not games.

I wouldn't curate projects from very well-known Scratchers, because that isn't the purpose. One, they'll get tons of views and comments anyway, and two, there'll probably end up on the front page for most viewed or most loved.

I would add a new project about 3-5 times a week and I would accept requests but they'd have to follow guidelines, such as being appropriate, having a certain number of views/love its or less, and certain facts about the scratcher (not being frontpaged recently, for example).

Please consider letting me take on this role as it would be a fun and learning experience. Thanks!

Hey, I just found out that we ask to be curator here. I though Scratch picked people to be curators.

I worked insanly hard to be curator. I'm of course always posting nice comment, I say welcome to scratch. You can always download my games and change them a little then upload. I didn't mention remix because they would not know what that means. I'm always givving a thumbs up to Scratchers, and I encourage them. When I find a mean comment I either flag it, or I reply to them, Please don't say mean comments. It's against the scratch guidelines.

In my projects I right a few paragraphs on most of all my project, and some of the remixes I make that would take a good explimation why I curated.
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If you guys could curate me to be curator I'd be very thankful.

P.S. I started scratch about 4-5 months ago, and this is why I would be responceible and accurate to be curator.

Thank you for your time:)

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i wanna be curator

I would make a good curator because I would show projects that are well designed(Script-wise) but are not made by people who already have many friends, views, and loves. I would allow hard-working amateurs to be "discovered" for their work effort and quality of project. I would feature mainly games or artistic projects as a curator. I would also feature work that cleverly uses scratch like: 1s1s(1 sprite one script) projects, projects using many variables, or projects that manipulate audio, sound, and the microphone:

 loudness 

Last edited by pwhager (2012-06-22 16:59:18)

May I be a curator? I find these kinds of projects interesting (in a good way). I like games that are very complex and make you think. I also like animations that a lot of effort have been put into. I like contests, and I love looking at the entries. I really like scrolling games, since I've never been able to make a good one myself. And I like animated music videos.    Let me know what you think.

scratcher5000 wrote:

Flashing wrote:

I'd like to become a curator.
*More coming soon*
you can't be a curator until you're a full scratcher


What's a full scratcher?

StarscreamClone wrote:

I would really like to be a curator.  Why?  Scratch is now my favorite hobby, and not only am I having fun, I am also learning as I program,  getting a programmer's mindset and developing problem solving skills (believe me, for some of my projects there was a lot trial and error). 

Why should I be a currator?  Well, for one thing, as well as a lot of things I do, I like to get active in my community.  Often times, though, it's hard.  Really hard. I want more people to see my projects, and obviously there are people who have very little views and "I Love It's" to get noticed.  People I would currate are ones who don't necessarily do magnificent work, but tries their best.  I've had my fair share of bumps in the road, and many Scratchers do, too.  There would really be no theme to what I pick as long as it was thought out well and given a good try.  Most likely, though, I would not pick remixes because I would be looking for original work.

I also agree with XGamer42.  Some projects are disregarded for one reason or another, and again, as I have found with mine, don't get many views.  Since the curator is on the front page, people are more likely to click on that than if it were on the "Newest Projects" bar, which changes every time you pull the page up. 

With all this said, I hope that the Scratch Team takes me under consideration as to being a curator. 

Your fellow Scratcher,
StarscreamClone

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Although this is an awesome speech, New Scratchers cannot become curator.

Whoops, I was logged in as my test!

When I think of a curator, I think about a person who thinks through projects that they want to curate and that they can change a person's scratch view. That's exactly how I will act if I am chosen as curator. When my project Rock Smasher got curated, I felt very, very proud of myself. While some scratchers have projects they are proud of already, I would like to take them a step further if they really did an excellent job. That can be accomplished by a curator curating that project. Things that I am looking for in a project that deserves to be curated are: hard work, appropriate for all ages, and outstanding ideas as though it could have taken a year to think of. I would also like to curate projects that not only have those characteristics, but that the scratcher has not much popularity. For me, a majority of their projects has to be under 10 comments, 50 views, and 10 love its. Here is how I will curate projects:
Hard Work (If it seems like they put a lot of effort) 1(none)-10
How appropriate 1(swears)-10
Idea 1(copied/simple)-10
Popularity 1(tons of views)-10
If all those things average over an 8.5, I will curate the project, even if it's a animation or game or whatever.
I will not curate a project just because someone asks me to. I WILL check it out, but I will not promise to curate it.

Wish everyone that deserves to be curated(but hasn't been) good luck, and good luck to all other scratchers trying to become curators. You guys have the same vision as me, and if we work together we can turn hope into happiness.

SCRATCH On!