I believe @curie can be a life changing thing for people. I joined Steemit 11 months ago, but I only posted a few of my artworks back then. After this I came back in december I believe. To be not really active, and interacting here yet. This changed in last january ..
I had been telling people on a Dutch platform about Steemit, and why they should join (after I found out I actually had some coins waiting for me that were more valuable than the last time I logged in lol).
So a few did, and one of them had been active for almost 3 months when I started posting again..
She gave me the golden tip, she knew where I should look to write in my niche (because I started writing to work towards a goal). So I left some comments, got pointed out to the tag I should use. The first post about being homeless got only maybe below 1 dollar (I am not totally sure but I believe it was below 1 )
The next day or so, I wrote part 2 of this story. Which got a curie vote AND another whale vote. This post reached the amount of 205 dollar at payout!
I didn't know back then that it was a curie vote, just found out recently that one of the big votes was from @hendrikdegrote back then I did not know curie yet.. Ever since I've been a member in the familyprotection community and this 1 first post that had success gave me a big motivation to continue!
My good friend @hetty-rowan is one of the supported members by curie, as you know ;) And I see the boost she gets when curie picked up her post, and she works damn hard to get to her goal too. So no, I don't believe Curie just gives 1 vote and that's it. Not in her case anyway :)
In my case I've had too big pending rewards I found out this week to get a curie .. So I got the boost I needed to get me started.. Thanks for that!
Thanks for this. I was in a similar boat to you when I got my first Curie, I had no idea that Curie was even behind it. But that one huge payout on a post was incredibly motivating. Really glad to hear that you have found a community to be a part of and are "making it" here, and also really glad to hear that Curie found you at the beginning and helped motivate you to stay :) Much love - Carl
It is incredibly motivating indeed! I got lucky Curie and Familyprotection found me at once.. I did not know what happened to me .. I was ecstatic actually. I am curious, how long have you been around here? And were you just as clueless on here as me when you got it? I had even no idea what discord was when I got it, so I just tried some tags, but did not connect that much with anybody yet. I am not going anywhere anymore, trust me. Steemit is my second home! <3 Thanks for your hard work - Anouk