Curie Weekly Update (12th Feb to 19th Feb 2017)

In spirit of Curie's transparency, we wish to use this weekly section as an ongoing development blog on our project to communicate our progress on top of the many casual exchanges happening in channel #curie.

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Important News

Please check out our recent important announcement: @curie/curie-and-community-an-open-invitation-for-all-to-be-part-of-our-curation-works-powered-by-streemian

Also, take note that we are currently increasing the bar for quality curation. Below is the list of posts that would NOT be voted on by @curie:-

Poetry posts unless they are particularly unique
Recipe posts unless they have pictures documenting the process; and some originality to the recipe
In case of frequently posted series (e.g. a daily series), vote one in three editions (Unless it's a good fiction series or something like that)
Art/craft type posts unless it's exceptional or there's a progression documented
Fact based posts without proper citations and references
Non-original content unless it's a substantial curation with their opinion
Authors milking the same topic
Dumping reposts from older blogs / youtube channel etc.

After 3 weeks of operations @ Streemian, below are some of the most frequent reasons for post rejection - please take note to avoid these in order to improve your curator's score and approval rating:-

Photography posts
Activity-of-the-day type posts largely driven by photography
Mediocre recipe posts
Reposts from older blogs / youtube etc.
Posts violating 48 hr rule
Non-original shares
Fact based posts without sources cited

Weekly Statistics

Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 433 posts at an average of 62 posts per day. A total of 311 unique authors were rewarded. SBD 5,734 was generated at an average of SBD 13.25 per post.

Authors

The Top 20 Authors by payouts last week were -

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Now that we've unified our curation, please note that the Top 12 Curator list will dynamically change every other week depending on performance. Anybody will be able to rise up the ranks with consistent, quality curation. Inconsistent, low quality curation will result in dropping out of Top 12 (or regular curation, if under-performance continues).

This week we have adjusted to a Top 10 Curator list, in view that only 8 curators are above Curation Score of 5. The other two curators had exceptionally high approval ratings, so they've been given higher limits for their infrequent, but quality submissions.

This week, we have upvoted 433 posts submitted by curators in http://curiesteem.com, with 3,408 STEEM paid out / pending payouts to curators.

From this week, we've implemented a revised formula to calculate Curators Score. It's putting even more of an emphasis on approval rates, and thus quality over quantity. The new formula is Posts approved * (Approval rate)^2. At current operations, we require a minimum CS of 5 to be eligible for Top 12 and 1 to be eligible for 5 submissions/day. Curators with an exceptionally high Score over the month will receive a monthly bonus.

Curation Leaderboard (with at least 5 submissions this week)

Curator	CS-new	Approval Rating
@liberosist	50.1	92.2
@jewierart	28.7	73.6
@naquoya	26.2	76.3
@alcibiades	25.8	91.2
@littlemozart	20.4	64.5
@teofilex11	11.7	88.2
@fubar-bdhr	7.7	71.4
@kevinwong	6.8	78.6
@pfunk	3.5	83.3
@mgibson	2.6	80
@dentara	2.3	50
@sjennon	2	100
@norbu	1.8	66.7
@boompanot	1.8	66.7
@majes	1.6	36.4
@hatta	1.5	40.9
@jdbry	1.5	50
@alamcraft	1.3	57.1
@ozyumari	1.3	40
@teukuderian	1.3	50
@septiyanachmad	1.1	60
@bangbadem	1	50
@riefcians	1	50
@helmilanscape	0.9	33.3
@funnytale	0.6	31.6
@practicemagic	0.6	42.9
@budak	0.5	31.3
@pakganern	0.4	27.8
@teukumukhlis	0.3	40
@arismocyc	0.2	33.3
@orangkaya	0.2	28.6
@digit	0.2	28.6
@nianursa	0.2	17.9
@taktoys	0.1	25
@iamforgiven	0.1	25
@pakkeplor	0	14.3
@rajiv	0	20
@pamodip	0	14.3

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