What I knew is only as much as you did @slobberchops, but currie will upvote base on quality exceptional contents, that mus be really exceptional: No Steemit things, no politics, no religious, no crypto things as well. you can use any tag you want, you can write anything you like, but it will be much better if you write something you know very well, write it in detail, specific, and must have high quality photos. your pending payout must below $5 ( i guess now), the curie curator work really hard to find good quality content, if you want to see how good quality content which has curie love you can check on this link : https://steemit.com/curie/@curie/curators-review-august-2018, if you want to know more about how good of content curie will upvote you can check in their discord channel: https://discord.gg/axfYqu. the up votes itself are vary depend on the review from the curator group. Wish you can get it.
one more thing: Curie will upvote the post between 150 minutes and less than 24 hours
How to get it?: Your post must have original exceptional content with detail and complete photograph, I knew travel feed curator also curie curator, and most of curie curator are always looking for high quality contents. So you will get it. I am sure
Thanks for the link @el-nailul, one of these guys did respond to the post so I have my answers now.