There are several announcements in this weekly update - both minor and major. In spirit of Project Curie's transparency, we wish use this weekly section as an ongoing development blog on our project to promote communication on top of the many casual exchanges happening in channel #curie.
- For those new to Curie, please follow @curie, and join us in https://steemit.chat/channel/curie
- Most Curie members are taking time off content creation for curation works, so please check out our members' contents whenever possible.
- Remember to follow and interact with authors that you love whenever going through The Daily Curie.
Important announcement
Channel #curie will soon to be moderated by @royaltiffany, @pfunk, and @firepower - all three being very helpful and reputable members of the Steemit community since the early days. Covering three major continents around the world, we hope that the coverage will supercharge channel #curie - making it reactive, fun, and lively.
Due to the increasing volume of activity in Curie, and in spirit of retaining honest users on Steemit, we are considering implementing these soon:-
- Limited number of submissions per user per 24 hours.
Known plagiarists, claiming works as their own will be forever blacklisted from Curie considerations.- Edited: Known plagiarists, claiming works as their own will naturally be avoided for Curie considerations until sufficiently proven to be trustworthy again. Please understand that we go through thousands of posts a day, and know that plagiarism isn't helping anyone do better on the platform.
- A "karma" system for each participants in channel #curie that tracks frequency of suggestion on authors, self-promotion, and other meaningful metrics. We hope to promote curation that helps relatively new and unknown users, not surefire candidates.
Beyond the #curie chat, we have also made several changes to our process this week, in response to the news detailed in our Special Edition.
Weekly Statistics
Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 884 posts at an average of 126 posts per day. A total of 455 unique authors were rewarded, which is close to 25% of actively engaged users. SBD 31,050 was generated at an average of SBD 35 per post. The posts curated varies on a daily basis, largely due to the fluctuation of quantity of posts that meet our criteria, but we are targeting an average of 150 posts per day going forward, while screening over 2,000 posts everyday.
These numbers all represent an uplift from the data from the first month. However, the average rewards for authors have decreased due to a decline in the value of Steem and rewards being spread across more authors.
Authors
The Top 10 Authors by payouts last week were -
- @dwinblood
- @shenanigator
- @krnel
- @pjheinz
- @herpetologyguy
- @infinitor
- @senseye
- @justtryme90
- @peskov
- @edgarsart
Tags/Topics
The top topics remain pretty much the same.
The only change is that science has overtaken travel, which is in line with our continuing focus on science and technology related posts. Moving forward, we'd love to see more diversity and niche topics appear on this treemap.
#curie @ https://steemit.chat/channel/curie
We upvoted 124 posts submitted in #curie, with SBD 620 paid out / pending payouts to curators. 56 curators submitted posts by other authors. All these numbers are up from the week before.
@pfunk defends his title as the top curator in #curie, though the competition is heating up.
We'll have a new champion next week, as @pfunk takes over moderating #curie.
Daily Statistics
Whether it by daily posts curated or SBD generated, Curie is clearly scaling up.
Yesterday was an all new record in across all parameters, and we don't intend to stop here.
The interest in #curie has been trending upwards. Sept 17th was the most active day in the channel's short history. As mentioned above, we are working on expanding the channel and hope to receive more submissions.