With the tagline of “Discovering new promising authors on Steemit since August 2016,” Curie is the best-known curation force on the Steemit platform. The size of Curie's vote, as you may have noticed above, is also sufficient to the herculean task the Curie group takes on in /New every day.
Curie runs a curation guild on Streemian, so that when Curie votes on an author, a large group of trailing voters also do as well. In practice, this means that anyone touched by the benevolent, upvoting hand of Curie can expect to see a boost in rewards of up to $250 or more (at the current Steem price) BEFORE the trailing voters also chip in! Reputation jumps from the 30's to the 50's are not unusual.
Anyone can submit posts to Curie for inclusion in Curie’s daily voting and resteeming quota. Users who submit posts that get selected each earn a 10 Steem finder’s fee, making this a very promising secondary income for curating minnows! Not only can you vote early on a post and see a high curation payout if the Curie guild selects it, but you will also get the finder’s fee if approved!
To ensure this system is not gamed, Curie tracks acceptance rate for each submitter. A high acceptance rate can lead to bonuses in finder’s fees, while a low one can disqualify you from submission Quality is emphasized over quantity.
There are also a sequence of guidelines that must be followed for posts to be eligible for Curie: new authors only (there is a reputation cap), no reposts, proper citations, post age (2.5 hours - 24 hours), payout cap ($2), limited author repetition, and finally, none of the following tags: “Politics, Steemit, IntroduceYourself, Photography, Travel, or Religious”.
Yours truly was lucky enough to have not one, but two, of my early posts Curie’d. It is certainly an exceptional feeling to go from making 60 cents a post to over $300. Without this early boost of motivation, and a confirmation that the Steemit platform was capable of identifying and rewarding talent, I can’t say for sure if I would have persevered here through a number of price drops and activity lulls!
For this alone, Curie has my enormous gratitude, and is at least a little responsible for this very article you are reading now.
Curie holds 115,000 SP and is powering down.
Curie’s Current Witness Update: @curie/curie-weekly-update-17th-september-to-24th-september-2017
Curie’s Original Witness Thread: @curie/curie-weekly-update-26th-dec-2016-to-1st-jan-2017-special-edition
Curie Chat Channel: https://steemit.chat/channel/curie
If you have any additions or errata for this post, please let me know! I will see that they are voted to the top of the comments, and will make the appropriate edits (if possible).
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