Directory listing rules
It's important to define what this is and what it isn't. Here are our guardrails.
One named, accountable human
One real person owns the curation. You can find them: their name, their face, their socials.
A brand, team, or anonymous account
If the answer to "who curated this?" is a company name, "our team", or nobody. It's out. No name, no face, no listing.
A human handpicks what's featured
User submissions are fine. Community contributions are fine. What matters is that one person is editorially responsible for what gets the spotlight: the homepage, the highlights, the picks.
Curation by public committee or algorithm
A subreddit, a crowd-voted feed, an AI-assembled collection. None of these qualify. If no single human is accountable for what rises to the top, it's not curation.
Curating others' work
Taste applied to the world outside their own output. That's the whole point.
Showcasing only their own work
A portfolio of your own projects, however beautiful, isn't the curation we are celebrating.
Content still reachable
Active posting isn't required. A dormant account with years of posts qualifies. The archive is the value. The test is whether a visitor can reach the content today, on a live domain or an accessible social account.
No surviving presence
A dead domain that redirects elsewhere, with no social archive to fall back on. If the content is gone, the listing goes with it.
Dedicated to a niche
Curation is clearly the purpose. Close-enough niches are fine: stamps and postcards would qualify together. The test: if you landed cold, would you call it "a curated collection of X"?
A category, a post, or a side section
A blog with a stamps category isn't a curation resource. A roundup post isn't either. If curating is a side effect rather than the point, it doesn't qualify.