In answer to a comment made by a fellow Steemian

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I started my reply on a comment made by a fellow Steemian on the appointment of June's curating team and pretty soon I saw I was going to fill the page so here I am.

Best to put my reply as a post on my blog.

The comment:

It's not as easy as it looks to create a strong team.
But then it shouldn't just be about beating the current team.
It could go in turns. Like maybe a team that is selected now can only apply after a month or two so that other teams too can be given the opportunity.
Normally the members of a team that a chosen often will only continue growing stronger and that already makes it harder to "challenge" them as you said.
But if it's to go in turns then the next best team will be given a chance too and thar way not just a particular team will be curating.
Take for instance your team and ma'am @ngoenyi team, those teams have never been "challenged". They are really good, have been doing a great job not just as curators but also in their individual accounts and there is no denying it but if it was set that you can't apply or be selected maybe 2 or 3 times in a row then others too will be opportuned to be selected for the spot.
I will take ma'am @patjewell for instance. She joined the team at 61 or 62 rep and she wasn't a dolphin then but with help from being part of a curation team she is a dolphin now and at 70 rep.

My reply:

It is a pity you didn't read my reply to the user on which you have commented. As I wrote to her;

I agree with you. I would love to see more applications and by that giving more Steemians the opportunity to curate. It is a pity that, if I am not mistaken, in four of the categories there was only 1 application for each.
There is thus no other choice but to accept these applications.

Steemgrowth, The7Up's was one of them. It was the same for us last month. I can guarantee you that if there was a 2nd application they also would have been evaluated. So please don't look at us as competition apply!

I so wish I could change everybody's viewpoint about curators. Gosh it is no easy job.

It takes hours from us. If I had to do it for the money I, as a business women and director of a company, would for sure not have done it. Guaranteed!

I do it for the love of my Steemian friends and the love of Steemit. I serve and there is nothing in life that gives me more pleasure than this. I am a Steemit fan and I am in Steemit for the long run and not for the short run!

Don't make a mistake, I have learned from being a curator and that is also what you have mentioned. But you know what I do week after week? I share what I have learned with all of you.

I am forever forwarding advise on the groups, I am helping Steemians which I don't even know with their posts and I encourage wherever I can. I have seen enormous growth in the Steemians who listens to me and I am pretty sure I'm going to see their names being published as curators very soon and not because they have asked for it but because for what they are achieving.

Then on your last part. Please go back to my blog. I started being successful one month after I rejoined Steemit. I worked hard on my blog in February and March and I think I was pretty successful. In fact I was so successful and started to build my name that I was approached by two teams to join them in their curator application. That is how I became a curator, I was invited and did not ask.

In this period of February and March I had COVID 19 and although I was very sick and I had to fight with my family I posted posts, day after day.

I build my own reputation that I can promise you and I am darn proud of it!

My posts:

Day after day my post is ranked under the top 75. In fact of 80% of the days my post rank under the top 15. It takes hard work to get this right and it does not depend on if you are a curator or not. Just to give you an example, for the 27th of May there were over 3,900 posts posted on Steemit. To ranked under the top is an achievement.

Twice I was a weekly winner during the Engagement Challenges. I did not miss one day even though I was totally taken out of my comfort zone by some of the topics. It wasn't me voting on my post, it was you guys. You found my posts fit enough to receive a vote.

My engagements:

Next you can go look at the most engagement stats. From the time these stats was released I was under the top 10 week after week. This doesn't just happens. There is no autoresponder set to reply on my behalf, I am not a MOD which replies on posts and as a curator we don't reply. No, it is all my work.

I am the one replying and interacting on other Steemians posts. You know yourself that I don't just vote and comment on two post as is required by us to do in our WhatsApp groups. No, I vote and comment on EVERY single post and EVERY single day. During the Engagement Challenge it took me nearly 2,5 hours EVERY night to read, comment and vote on posts which were posted on our groups alone.

My advice:

Whatever you do, do it to your best and the rest will follow.
✰DON'T wait for others!
✰DON'T give up!

In closure, this is me, I love my communities, I am dedicate, I am hardworking and I am proud of what I have achieved. I have enjoyed my work as curator and nothing is going to stop me from enjoying it again in the month of June.

Best of all, I know I am part of a great and well deserving team!
@disconnect @kiwiscanfly @harferri @klen.civil @ngoenyi @nahela

Ps. I am not satisfied with just one dolphin, no ways!