Curie posts are used to re-buy steem and power the Curie account, unless you are talking about the rewards that are going to authors due to their posts.
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Curie posts are used to re-buy steem and power the Curie account, unless you are talking about the rewards that are going to authors due to their posts.
No, I'm talking about the posts themselves. And yes, I understand the money goes for a good cause. The thing is, regardless of how noble the casue is, its still money coming out of the author reward pool (and a significant amount of money at that, it was like 10K in the week when i added it all up a few days ago), thats pretty much a permanent debit (and that seems to be growing).
So yeah, its "just" 10K for curie. The problem is that there are more and more things that are daily type posts and they all take away from the amount of money available to [people actually writing. to paraphrase The Gipper, my hero, "10K here 10K there and pretty soon youre talking about serious money"
On the contrary, you can look at the @curie account's history, which is quite transparent. Curie is paying money out to members of this community who find and review good quality posts that are worthy of rewards. Not every Steemit post is a thoughtfully written piece. Some are announcements by programmers that they are working on something new that makes this system better, and for that the community decides to reward them, even if they are not good writers.
If the community decides to reward people who find good posts for curation, then they can keep voting for the Curie posts. We are aware that the Curie posts are more frequent than some people would like and we will look at spacing them out as the project finds its footing on solid ground economically. Until then, without these posts, we would not be able to afford to incentivize the community's good work.
You present your opposition to these posts as a false dilemma. The money is not exiting the system, nor is it being taken away from the community. It is going to people who are helping make Steemit better by their actions, whether they are writers or community curators.
I think you slightly misunderstand my friend @sigmajin, or if not, then I will simply present my view.
It is not that the @curie posts are inherently inappropriate in some way, nor the @dantheman posts, nor @kushed's friends' posts. It is that every complaint about "unfair" or "undeserved" or "excessive" payouts can be matched by others, with all competing over who can shout the loudest, or with the more persuasive hit piece. Where does this leave us? With a platform full of competing accusations that repels newcomers and ultimately serves the interests of no one except those who enjoy trolling and counter-trolling. The internet is full of such people and we're no exception. They exist here too and will destroy any shot at popular appeal this platform might have. Which will repel Aunt Milly more? That @honeyscribe is paid more than what you think she deserves due to so-called unfair whale voting or that every day the platform is full of negative posts where users make accusations against other?
We all have votes. We should use those votes as we see fit, to allocate the finite reward funds according to voting-derived consensus. If you don't like how the funds are being allocated, then vote to allocate them differently. If you don't have enough vote power to make the difference you want to see, then you can buy more or earn more.
Disagreements can be resolved by voting, where the system (code) reaches a consensus by counting SP voted up and down, compares across posts, and settles the matter via an impartial and objective algorithm. They can also be debated endlessly and with varying degrees of shrillness and hostility that ultimately comes down to claims by everyone concerned that their own opinions on what is more deserving or how people should vote is more valid than that of others'. We need more of the former and less of the latter.
Fine words and eloquently put.
If your post is mentioned in a Curie daily list, you don't get any money from them. Just recognition and visibility. That payout column is what each post has made through upvotes. I was confused about that too and spoke to them to clarify. I think Curie is a good thing.