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💎 Introducing Community Gems: Celebrating Human Curation and the Best of Our Community

Ben Halpern on September 02, 2026

In an internet full of noise, infinite scrolls, and algorithmically generated content, finding genuinely great, thoughtful writing can feel like se...
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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Thanks Ben! No wonder I see a star icon...I am a Community Curator Avenger :D

Already given out some Gems to some people already!!!

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Woohoo! We might change the star icon itsel as it was kind of a placeholder that just ended up shipping to prod 🙃

But everything about this seems like it's working as it should so far.

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

I'm flattered.

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Btw, we'll be in touch with all curators for more details shortly.

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Sounds good! Looking forward to this. Thanks @ben and the whole DEV team!

How many did you select other than me? Should we create a DEV org for the Community Curators???

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

WAIT A MIN, you can give gem to a comment???? Wow :o

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Yeah. It's the biggest boost you can give to a comment. We don't yet have comments represented as part of "discovery" yet so I didn't get into it here, but folks will get notice when their comment is selected — and it will get a bigger boost in the thread.

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

The best part? It's basically impossible to rig. While we'll need to eventually figure out how to scale the Community Curator program, we are intentionally starting with a very very small cohort of curators to ensure high quality gems.

I'm really excited to see how our collective feeds shift and improve with this touch of human curation. I'll probably be going to the /curated tab first as a new daily routine.

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Nothing is impossible. But we have lots of anti-rigging mechanics in place 😄

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Who is usually the go-to person for this program or is it just the whole dev team?

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

@heyitsjem will be your go-to. They're emailing shortly.

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Anna Villarreal

Im interested to see what happens with this. The anti rig. I like it. In a world where everything is automated, we now try to rediscover ways to capture the organic, or otherwise well-written content by giving power to the community. This is an interesting experiment, and also shows that this community already has trust woven into its fibers.

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Chris Jarvis

Human curation this sounds like a solid plan. Much rather hear what the community like than just an algorithms. I like human eyes on the content not just the hashtags.

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Thomas Bonnet

Ooooh that a gooood idea! 🥰