Introduction
Curie is a community project run by several Steemit authors. Our mission is to help discover and reward new content creators who are posting all sorts of original content, and give them the exposure that they need. In partnership with @nextgencrypto, @berniesanders, @val, @silversteem, @clayop, @hendrikdegrote and @kushed, Curie aims to provide rewards to these deserving authors whether they are writers, artists, chefs, photographers, videographers, and more.
In full transparency, you will be able to find a published list every day detailing all the posts that Curie has chosen by our curators. At the same time, our hope is that this list will provide more positive exposure to the selected authors. We invite curators to submit hidden gems at #curie on Steemit.chat.
We hope that you will consider following not only this @curie account, but also many of the authors whose work is featured here each day. Please consider adding your comments on these posts also! You can follow @curie's outgoing votes to see our curation in real time and donate your votes.
Note: We are trying out making Daily Curie posts Payout Declined. The result will be a downscaled community project curating fewer posts. We would like feedback on whether the Steemit community would prefer to have these posts on Steemit.com or on a separate website, in the short term.
Today's Brief Analysis
Today's list polls all posts curated between 08/01 12:00 UTC and 09/01 12:00 UTC. Curie voted on a total of 59 posts. SBD 1,381 has been generated for authors thus far, at an average of SBD 24 per post. The total number of posts curated is lower than previous. This will be our new target going forward due to the downscaling mentioned above. However, the total SBD generated is on par with recent times. As a result, the average SBD is up nearly 50%.
Curie should not decline payout because this project needs more support in curating. Curie's posts should be in trending posts because in that way everybody will understand that STEEMIT is for everyone. If you have a good content you will be rewarded for your work.
After few months participating in the Curie's program for finders, I think that Curie should be more promoted by all of us who grew due to @curie !! I am one of them and I didn't write anything about Curie until today!
ALL the team deserves my respect.
@curie is the most important project and will have my support but you should not decline the payout!
Thanks @cebymaster :) You're a valuable curator in #curie so I appreciate your thoughts. We are just trying out Payout Declined - we'll respond to feedback from the Steemit community.
Interesting perspective that it should trending. I guess you are right - if I were a new author I'd be more motivated to post. We have also seen several new authors join #curie and submit their own posts saying they found out about the project through Daily Curie.
If it should be trending I think it should be modified to be more appealing on the front page. While I agree that it deserves the support of the community, it is clear from Alexa.com stats that the Steemit front page has a much higher bounce rate in recent months. We need to focus on getting users to stay longer by having the most appealing content at the top.
Yes, I completely agree with you. As some may have noticed, Curie is collaborating with Steem Guild to get some of the best posts into Trending.
All my respect to @curie
@curie
it's not going to do the community any good either, just go on and don't listen to what everybody says. You all know what your goal is and you're achieving it. We're not blind to see that. Though the finder fee is lesser than you have started obviously - there are still people referring authors to you - why? It's not just the finder's fee.
We understand that in order to thrive we all need to get noticed. In order to thrive, we need to encourage each other and the only way we could is to help specially the newbies.
If your post is getting rewards - I don't see why not. If some of those plagiarized posts got away getting rewards why not you.
I upvote your post on a daily basis cause I understand your goal. If you don't make to the trending page like the SCC people won't know. Many won't get a chance to get noticed so - just go on with what you do and accept pay outs again and support everyone you could - everybody happy.
The more support and author gets, the more possibility they'd stay and even invest. The more they'd do their best to write. IMHO
Thank you for our comments. Much appreciated.
@liberosist you're achieving your goal so I hope next posting you won't decline payouts anymore.
Seems like most here are in agreement. Curie offers a great service to the community and has proven itself. Take the payout! Use it to continue to promote more articles.
How would Curie benefit from a separate site? I'm sure there's good reasoning behind the idea, but it seems counterintuitive to me.
Yeah, it seems like it, but if you see the previous Daily Curie it was rather the opposite. The silent majority have spoken.
Not sure if this is what you care to hear, but I rarely read these. I am grateful for them though, because it gives me an opportunity to upvote, which at least provides a few cents to help promote the project.
Importance of Curie for the Steemit community could have been seen in the recent two days of their short break. Without Curie support, most of new authors don't get much needed support for their posts.
The more support for the authors to help them get on their feet, means better chance of them sticking around in the long run. So I'll always upvote both featured authors and these Curie posts that make them be more visible to the community.
You have my full support!
Thank you. Keep up the great work in #curie :)
Accept payouts. The stakeholders speak with their votes, and those votes have been pretty clear about the perceived value that @curie creates.
When did Curie start declining payouts? Man, you guys become more awesome every time, but I really feel that all of you deserve the appropriate reward for your effort in helping the community grow.
This is the first Decline Payout post. We're trying our best to work out a system for paying both the hundreds of curators in #curie and the people working hard internally (not to mention the software development / server expenses etc.), without taking anything from the reward pool. It'll be a win-win if we can make it work.
For the short term, it's the authors of Steemit that lose out because we have lower resources to curate posts; as well as curators because there are fewer posts that are processed. However, it also means that the top authors get more rewards. So there are pros and cons, it's not an easy decision - which is why we are soliciting feedback from the community.
Hmm I'm following #curie's curation trail on Streemian, am I qualified as a curator?
Ah, that's different. You are free to submit posts in #curie. I saw @fubar-bdhr submitted your post in #curie a few hours ago. He's one of the top curators there. We also have an internal curation team, but over time the emphasis has fallen on #curie. To answer your question, #curie is an open curation submission channel - everyone is a curator if you find good posts that meet the guidelines :)
Ah, yes I see. I do submit there from time to time as well. You guys are such a huge help to the community, I wish it carries over to the Steem Guild project. @fubar-bdhr has been such a huge help to two or three of my posts as well, nominating them as soon as they hit the 6-hour mark.
Indeed, all hail @fubar-bdhr!
I see Curie as a community service that helps a lot of users here get on their feet with much needed support. It certainly was very helpful to me. And as such I don't see why receiving funds through well supported posts would be a problem. Especially if that money is contributing to the Curie program.
The argument is that Curie is just "draining the reward pool", while the rewards would be better allocated to authors making posts. Some people are upset / angry about this, and we would rather not upset people if an alternative solution can be worked out. Of course, you make a fair point that 100% of the rewards (including SP as @curie is powering down) are actually redistributed to the most engaged people in the community for their hard work. I suppose it's easy to take a myopic view - see an account trending every day and get upset. Nevertheless, we wish to focus on rewarding and retaining new authors on Steemit, and would prefer to respect naysayers if they leave us in peace.
It's true that there's a curation rewards pool built in, and the ideal solution would be the curation guilds feature which I presume will direct a portion of rewards directly to the curation guild. But that's for the long term - we are looking for feedback for the short term. Thanks a lot :)
If Curie were keeping the money then the argument about draining the reward pool would have some validity. But that isn't what is occurring. I remember how it was before Curie started. The little guys had no hope then, except perhaps luck. Curie has created a path for dedicated users to get going and try to establish themselves. This isn't the Sports channels, I see this as completely different. Anyway, I've made my point. In my opinion there is no need to decline.
When I was new here, I wasn't getting any support at all and although I wanted to keep posting because I love it here, a part of me also wanted to quit. I was really confused. But since curie started supporting me and other new authors, I can see that the general motivation has increased. It certainly stopped me from quitting. So, I think curie shouldn't decline payment as it might make it difficult for them to keep doing the awesome job that they are doing! :)
Thank you for your honest feedback! :)
Another great list of goodness to start the week with, thanks again for the dedication to quality work and namaste :)
I agree with what @cebymaster said. Curie project should not decline payout, as it curates and rewards the good content. I am always thankful for the support that I got from curie team.
It's hard to evaluate posts in search of high quality ones. Project Curie also solves a huge problem here in Steemit - recognizing undiscovered yet deserving posts. For me, it's worth their daily payout.
What's with all the moaning? @curie has made brave decisions which ensure that it achieves its goal! Great work @curie!
Don't decline!
You have my undivided support for the amazing work you're doing when it comes helping authors get on their feet. Keep up!
Another Interesting Collection from @Curie. Thank Yous!
Thanks for the nod @curie. Keep up the good work!
I never voted for your posts, because to be honest, I was not 100% sure whether your intention are clear, or it is just way to earn money.
By declining your payout you have just proven that your intentions are good, and you are really doing this because of authors and their content :)
I think, that probably your payout is well deserved, but at the same time currently declining payout i think is better for steem as good PR move for steemit.
This makes no difference w.r.t PR for Steemit. A new/existing low-rep/low-SP author telling their friends that they are making money/getting recognition because they are getting voted by some curation guild on Steemit (where you earn by way of upvotes) is a good PR. Because when this curation guild pauses it's voting, the effects are immediately visible because unfortunately no one is able to replicate success. I've also seen how people are unwilling to come together to crowdfund (on a large scale) other methods of reaching the same conclusion. Declining payouts limits Curie's reach in some ways. Perhaps the model will evolve to sustain it self in other ways but I'm of the personal opinion that the community must come forward to support activities which in turn supports the community at large. The community at large are generally small stakeholders/new users. :)