For the last four years, OCD has been curating daily undervalued content in the chain. The project adapts and strives to the changes in the blockchain. We continue to grow and keep the project fresh with new ideas by bringing in passionate curators and, in recent addition, community leaders.

From OCD daily curation, community incubation program, and Posh curation, one of the common factors to make all this happen is our curator's and community leaders' involvement.

As a part of appreciating their time and effort, we will highlight our OCD curators and the community leaders. By highlighting them, we invite you to meet and learn about the folks behind OCD & the community leaders supported in the incubation program.

You can check their profile and give them a follow, but please do not direct message them with a link to your post. The curators and community leaders are constantly browsing the chain and the community to find your content. Hence, as an author, keep focusing on creating quality content and engaging in the community you prefer.

OCD Curators & Community leaders

@cryptoandcoffee

My username on Hive is @cryptoandcoffee and I have been on Hive for 3 years now. I soon realised that this was a strong community based pltform and have tried to involve myself wherever I can. I at first didn't think this place was for me as I never enjoyed writing and now it is an important part of who I am.

I manage the @sportstalksocial community as sports is what I am interested in. I was an ex semi professional rugby player and when I retired from the game took up refereeing with the aim of going professional only to be thwarted by a back injury. Sports has been my life in one way or another and even today I am semi involved.I like to see people rewarded who put effort into something and why curating is a fun hobby for me.

When I first joined sports it was a few weeks old and there was plenty of abuse and milkers but they were chased away and I see @ocd's involvement as the second phase and why I pushed for the incubation program. The community has grown from 772 to 1172 which is an increase of 400 in a very short time of around 6 months. The standard of posts has definitely gone up another level which shows off what the community is capable of.

I would like to see Hive develop into so much more as the possibilities are endless. What we have here is special and unique and it needs to be looked after.

@midlet

I'm Midlet, I have a real name, but I don't go by it really anywhere online, so yea, just midlet. I got into crypto in late 2016 and learned about Steem in early 2017. Been here for a lot of the ups downs, fights and drama, changes and upgrades and of course was here during the fall and the rise from the ashes and the birth of our final form Hive.

I started off casually sharing art then slowly got sucked in and got involved all over the place in various things through the years. Once I really learned how everything worked here I knew that the long term play for Hive was in being a curator first and an author second and that's where I'm at now. Since I've been following all the developments of the chain extremely closely for a long time, I created OnChainArt, then called Steem Artstation, I believe on the literal first day that the communities feature was released. I'd had plans to start an art community since I heard about the feature months before it was actually available and I was excited to get things going.

It was at that point I started reaching out to all the curation groups to collaborate so that we could make the most out of the communities feature. The rest is history I guess.

I've always(against some Hivers preference) wanted OCA to be a community curated around the highest quality artwork on the chain. In the beginning before people were used to posting in communities there was a lot of me reaching out to people to get them to post their awesome work in the community and a lot of different experiments to push the quality in the community. Over time OCA has grown consistently and the quality of work is also improving over time and the community looks better and better day by day.

I have fairly big dreams for Hive. When I look around the blockchain world and see things starting to break into the mainstream(ex NFTs), it gets me excited for what could happen here if we really start to ramp up on new people using the chain. I think it's something that could absolutely change the world if it really took off and I think it would be a change for the better. The idea of a global, censorship resistant, social monetary network is so damn powerful it can't really be overstated. I'm happy to be here playing my little part in this revolution.

@ddrfr33k

Hi there! I'm @ddrfr33k, The Ginger Beard Man! I'm the COO and co-owner of Vimm. I got started with Steem (and eventually Hive) back in December of 2017. I was drawn to the concept of earning crypto for my content, and was looking for a replacement for Tsu, which shut down the year prior. I figured out pretty quickly that you're not going to find $100 upvotes for your blog posts, but the community here is second to none and I'm proud to call it home! Over the years, I've had the pleasure of meeting several witnesses both online and in person, and they really, truly cemented my believe in Hive and the community that runs it. Everyone here is awesome!!!

You know, I got involved with Vimm after the site launched. I had approached Chiren with some ideas for improvement, and through some chicanery, I found myself in a leadership position alongside him. We have grown a ton since I first got involved back in 2018. The community has changed a wee bit, we've lost some streamers and gained some new ones. But along the way, we have built a much firmer foundation for our community to grow upon. We are stronger, better than ever, and I can't wait to show Vimm to anyone who will listen!

I really want to see Hive become home for more people. If we can surpass the big tech sites, that would be an astronomical feat. But it's definitely possible! As for Vimm, we have pivoted our development in the last year and a half. Rather than bring Hive to the masses, we're instead bringing the masses to Hive. We are using the OCD Curation to help foster streamers that want to build their community. People that put in the time and energy will see their efforts bear fruit. As we grow, we plan on telling people about Hive, how they can earn crypto for their live streams, and introduce them to the larger community of Hive in the process. Show how we're but one part of a larger ecosystem, and how they can own their content and be part of something greater. I can't wait to see all the awesome people we bring in to the Hive family with us!

@ylich

My name is Ylich Orsini, a.k.a "Eel Ruso" and I am from Caracas, Venezuela, a professional singer and musician who has also been active for a long time in other forms of arts, especially in literature and theatre. Since I arrived on this platform in January 2018, I tried to go as far as possible in the sense of making good contacts, meeting people, and my initial idea was to interact with many communities like German and Russian ones because I wanted to keep practising those languages. But the reality pushed me to dedicate my time to curation in Spanish, leading the @la-colmena curation guild supported by @curie.

When I started understanding the importance of the communities, I created a new one for literature in Spanish Literatos. As an always active musician I concluded that all the efforts in music should be pointed to only one community, so I contacted @uwelang, who already had the Music community, I made him some recommendations and I offered him my support. Hence, he gave me the administrator role in the community and we started a new level on it.

We have increased a lot the interaction with the whole community of musicians and music lovers because we focused on pointing to a wide audience which included all those who love to write about their favorite bands, about concerts, musical genres, throwback music, without leaving besides the musicians, singers, producers, djs, etc.

The Music Community has been growing and there is always more and more interesting content. Many people have understood that the way we should go is joining forces and creating a single space for all the music content on Hive. And we're going in the right direction.

The whole project of communities is really new, and we have to go further. We have to understand the real potential communities have and turn them into real and positive alternatives for all the people related to each topic. In our case, we should convert our space into an ideal place for every musician, singer, producer who wants to reach new audiences, and at the same time, turn it into a place where all the music fans and lovers can find their preferred music, artists and where they can express themselves about the music they love.

Achieving similar goals in all our communities may turn Hive into a really new way of communication, an optimal network, where freedom of speech, quality, creativity and participation converge, a place where everyone would like to be part of it.!

@adamada

I started blogging on the old blockchain after a friend introduced me to the ecosystem. Blogging has been on my to do list but never really got into it soon due to a lack of confidence in my writing and content. Got involved in multiple communities during my stay especially with art and antiabuse community.

I took a break from the blockchain due to career demands in real life (I'm a doctor by profession). I was blogging as a hobby and still do. I went back at the hobby again and that's when Hive was a few months old. There was a lot to catch up. I think the only reason I bothered again was due to the community members I still see active. I gave 9.95/10 of my earned rewards from the old blockchain to the friends that continue on Hive.

I wouldn't bother with the Hive if I didn't see some familiar faces still active. I probably would just be at some social art community sites blogging. It makes me feel good knowing that motivations aren't all money driven, the upvotes are nice but I'd like to see some meaningful connections while I'm engaging in the community.

A lot of the communities I was in became inactive but I'm happy to see some core members are still posting. The same problems exists but I these are much more manageable now because the problematic few kept their activity on the old blockchain.

I think Hive is better than the old blockchain in terms of rewards distribution, content discovery, and community activity (even if it still suffers a lack of engagement)

Grow in user base and get more activity going. Hive has been a hobby chain for me, I'm positive about its future but realistically bounded within those expectations. Most of the problems that exist here are created by people and not within the errors of the code. If there are things that can be exploited, it will. But people have both good and bad sides.

I wish people would just not treat the place as a content dump, engage more, and curve their entitlement and realize it's not their content that's going to get them well rewarded. It's the contribution they give back to the community that also invests in them.

@perceval

My name is Chris, here at Hive I am known as Perceval. I am 23 years old. I got into the Blockchain world in 2017, Steemit, many people know it. I learned several things about Markdown and how the Blockchain works, although I'm still pretty much a noob at that. Years later, a friend shows me Hive. My first post was in 2020, the month of June, I am not yet my first year as a user on Hive, although I will be soon. I started to have interaction with several users in the OCD community Discord. My nights were quite fun in the Discord, all thanks to @macchiata, @ybanezkim26, @castleberry, @roadstories, @derangedvisions, Acid(I don't mention him because he scares me.) and many more people, who even though I don't know them face to face, I have a lot of respect and appreciation for them. I created my own community called "Hive Dark Side", a community intended for mysterious and terrifying content on Hive, which had a lot of interaction at the beginning but then died, I have plans to revive it but for that I will need your help, later.

One morning like any other, I was just getting up from my bed and just like all my days, I opened Discord and saw a message, a proposal(but not from the girl I like) that surprised me quite a lot and to this day I'm still surprised. Thanks to the help of @derangedvisions, I'm here, and I've learned many things about being a curator thanks to him. Thanks for giving me the opportunity, Boomer.

I'm currently curating content for the Hive Gaming community, a community for nerds and video game lovers. As I mentioned before, I created a community a while ago, but right now it's pretty much abandoned. My goal for this 2021 will be to revive it and make contests every week and reward the most terrifying and quality posts. All my life I've been surrounded by videogames, so I ended up in Hive Gaming.

Hive Gaming is a pretty big community, one of the communities with the most people in all of Hive. That's amazing, because every day, there are many users with quality content, giving life to the community. On the other hand, there is a small percentage of users who choose the easy way and decide to abuse, using content from other sources as if it were their own. Since I started being a curator, I have not only been in charge of selecting excellent quality posts, I have also dedicated myself to clean up the community a bit and the result seems to me to be quite good, there is no longer as much abuse as before. The evolution that Hive Gaming has had since I arrived has been quite big and obviously, this would have been impossible to do alone, I have had a lot of help from incredible leaders.

I can expect anything from Hive, it's just amazing. For many people, this place has been a light on that dark road, as corny as it sounds it's the truth. For me personally it has helped me a lot and I have a lot of faith that it will grow a lot more soon. It is just in its growth boom, it is not yet known, but when it is, it will be even more amazing and I hope I can live to see its development and evolution. This is me, a simple guy who found a miracle. Thank you very much for reading.

Check out the previous issue :

#1 Issue Featuring derangedvisions, crosheille, Knowhow92, discoveringarni, & LivingUKTaiwan.

#2 Issue Featuring gentleshaid, qwerrie,melinda010100, storiesoferne, & ybanezkim26

#3 Issue Featuring Traciyork,minismallholding,roadstories, crazy-andy & Pusen

#4 Issue Featuring riverflows,castleberry,travelgirl, adalger, & macchiata

This concludes today’s edition of the Meet OCD curators and community leaders. We would like to thank the curators & community featured leaders here for their dedication and time finding undervalued authors.

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