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But there should be, at least, one benefit: the garden's curator has your back.

I would be worried if it is really being cut because the curator doesn't agree with it.

If you decide that none of them match your curatorial agenda, then thank them warmly for their submission and move on.

It's only when the curator turns into a gatekeeper and becomes a hindrance instead of a help that the problem arises.

The TED curator basically admits that he doesn't agree with the idea and that he also finds it too partisan to distribute.

I believe he's speaking about the curator of HackerNewsTips, who from the last few tweets, sounds like he might be the GitHub employee who had to deal with the wrath of Zed.

Maria didn't invent the idea of a link blog and Maria doesn't get to dictate how and in what matter people hat-tip, link back or give a virtual hand-job to other "curators.

In fact, I would guess that one strongly opinionated curator will put together a far more coherent line-up than any popularity contest ever could.

> blogspamGiven his expertise, Schneier acts as an excellent curator/aggregator.

PG isn't the curator for content on HN, and while you could argue he could algorithmically alter stories about YC companies, or manually remove stories, this isn't an editorial blog.

"If we don't step up and take some action against a service and users that are dismissing our curation skills as just a list, that opens up the floodgates to anybody who wants to copy what a curator is doing.

They act as a curator by selecting and developing artists, a ability that becomes increasingly underrated in times of services like EchoNest - while I really like what those guys are doing, as a user of various music services I tend to notice that all those discovery features provide very similar results - probably due to the fact that they are using the same APIs by EchoNest.