Steemit Update [April 20th, 2026] : Community Curators for May
It’s time for another round of Community Curator applications.
The new expanded Community Curator program using the additional @booming accounts appears to be working well. We will therefore be continuing the same plan for May including the specific support for newcomers and apps and games.
So in May there will again be a total of 11 Community Curation accounts with 13M SP between them.
The Community Curators for May
For May we are inviting people interested in becoming Community Curators to apply in teams of two or three.
For May there will be a minimum SP requirement of 9000SP 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 May.
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.
For May there will be a minimum SP requirement of 9000SP for each team member.
Supporting Newcomers
We are aware that support for newcomers has become more variable over the last few months so we therefore want to continue with 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 9000SP.
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.
Applications will not be accepted from teams who include any member who is powering down, or who has just stopped powering down within three weeks of making an application.
Posts should be submitted by 11.59pm UTC, on Sunday, April 26th, 2026.
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 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 Newcomer Team and the Game/App Curator teams.
The posts will be voted by @steemcurator01.
Thank you to this month’s Community Curators. You are all welcome to apply again for May.
The new Curation Teams will be announced by the end of the month, with a view to starting at the beginning of May.
The Steemit Team

Thank you so much for the update.
I am available to join a curation team.
Happy to start another month. So I am ready to do my service for that month. So I look forward to working as a team.
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Hello Hello team is complete??
Hi steemians.
I am here to make a team for curator application for the month.
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Dear Steemian friends!
I am @mueeinislam, I am very interested in joining the May curation team. If you would like me to join your team, please contact me. My details and Discord ID are given below.
Hello steemins, I am @mamun123456, I am very interested in joining the May curation team. If you would like me to join your team, please contact me. My details and Discord ID are given below.
I'm available to team up for May curation.
Please contact me(@lhorgic). discord: mahadisalim I can't find you on Discord.
I am interested
The updated requirements for the May curation teams are quite interesting, especially the 9000 SP minimum for each member. It definitely ensures that those leading the community have a significant stake in the platform's success. I was actually in the middle of drafting a team application post and looking up some successful examples for inspiration, but I got distracted by a notification for a hindi sex video and spent a while watching hindi sex clips at before getting back to my draft. I think the focus on newcomers and app developers will really help Steem grow this quarter. Has anyone else already formed their team of three for the May cycle?