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#1 2009-05-29 11:23:26
Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage
Lots of Scratchers have told us they want to show their favorite projects on the Scratch homepage. So we created a new role called "Scratch curator."
You can find more information here:
http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Become_a_Scratch_Curator
If you'd like to become a curator, reply to this forum thread. Tell us the kind of projects you'd like to show, and why you want to show them. We'll choose curators that represent the diversity of the Scratch Community - girls, boys, gamers, storytellers, animators - Scratchers of all kinds! We especially like to choose Scratchers who have been helpful and contributing members of the Scratch community.
Last edited by Lightnin (2009-10-28 09:25:59)
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#2 2009-05-29 11:49:20
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Interesting... Will there be a new row or just use the Featured row?
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#5 2009-05-29 12:30:32
- MyRedNeptune
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Awesome. 
I totally support this idea.
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#7 2009-05-29 13:22:06
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I would love to be a curator if possible
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#10 2009-05-29 15:46:22
- gettysburg11
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That would be awesome! I want to do it, please! I might pick some very good projects that not many people know about because the person isn't famous.
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#11 2009-05-29 17:16:00
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I wouldn't mind being a curator...
Sounds cool!
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#12 2009-05-29 17:36:24
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I would like to be one. I love all of the games that make you say "Whoa." Like ones that take forever to make and are GREAT quality. And they wouldn't all be from people we all know, like archmage, or keroro645, or boinoinoi, lots of them would be from "unknowns", too. I think that's why I would be a great curator.
Thanks for your time
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#13 2009-05-29 17:40:09
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Well I've definitely like to be a curator, after all, I usually expect to only favorite the best of games, (recently I havent seen any good ones so I haven't added any to my favorite list)
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#14 2009-05-29 17:42:47
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Zelda123 wrote:
I would enjoy doing this. Will the position be permanent or will there be a few every month or so?
Hi Zelda123 - we'll probably change curators every few weeks.
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#17 2009-05-29 19:32:32
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This is a great idea! I'd love to be a curator!
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#18 2009-05-29 19:34:59
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fullmoon wrote:
This is a great idea! I'd love to be a curator!
Me too! Since I have joined scratch I have always wanted to play a major role of the scratch community in some way.Scratch is my favorite thing to do 100%. This is like one of my dreams come true If I get to become a curator. I hope I become one! 
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#19 2009-05-29 23:09:04
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I'd like to become a curator. I'm mainly interested in games that look like they have a lot of work put behind them.
The problem is there's 2 weeks of school left and this summer is going to be busy. I won't have internet access for most of august.
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#20 2009-05-29 23:54:08
- technoguyx
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I'd become a curator, but I'm pretty busy as well. 
Anyway, I like the idea - I just hope curators won't abuse their "powers" and pick only projects made by their friend, so something. But I guess they can change him/her if he's caught doing so.
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#21 2009-05-30 00:30:48
- timjawsome
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I would like to become a curator, only so the projects that have been worked on really hard, and still don't get veiwed very much can get viewed. 
That is a new thing that could work out great!
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#22 2009-05-30 01:01:14
- cheddargirl
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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage
Scratch Wiki wrote:
While serving as curator, the Scratcher’s most recent Favorites will be featured in a row on the Scratch Homepage.
It sounds like SCRATCH will just automatically pick the three recent projects favored by the curator. But if I were curator, I would like some say in which three of my favorites appear on the home page. Would that be possible?
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#23 2009-05-30 04:01:26
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I like this idea so much!
I would really like to be a curator. However, I am still thinking about some things...
What if the current "curator" picks a violent project? It'd be shown off on the frontpage for about a week...
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#24 2009-05-30 05:23:10
- s_federici
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I would like to be a curator. My main interest in Scratch is about educational projects.
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#25 2009-05-30 05:24:40
- Paddle2See
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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage
cheddargirl wrote:
Scratch Wiki wrote:
While serving as curator, the Scratcher’s most recent Favorites will be featured in a row on the Scratch Homepage.
It sounds like SCRATCH will just automatically pick the three recent projects favored by the curator. But if I were curator, I would like some say in which three of my favorites appear on the home page. Would that be possible?
I suspect, since it is going to pick your most recent three favorites, that you could force it to pick the ones you want by unfavoriting and then refavoriting projects to manipulate the dates...kind of awkward maybe, but I bet it would work.
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