Curie is a curation projects that helps and supports great posts. Posts discovered by curie curators receive generous upvotes so that new authors who are continuously creating great content without much success get some exposure.
In the past curie was open for public submissions, however recently rules have changed and only way for new curators to join is by the recommendation of top curators and approval of reviewers.
I have joined the ranks of top curators for this week, and there is no guarantee I will stay as a top curator.
Many people were asking how to get a recommendation to become a curator. For that reason I decided to create this application post. Purpose of this application is not to recruit new curators, rather provide a process for those who already know about curie and have been asking to become a curator.
Since this process has not been done yet, I reserve the right to stop this process anytime, and I am not making any promises. Also, please consider this ONLY if you are going to be respectful of my decisions when I say "No". It is most likely most of the applicants will be rejected, since I intend to recommend one or two curators.
Here are the rules:
- Applicant must have reputation of 44 or higher.
- Applicant must have been on Steemit for at least a month.
- Applicant must be an active member who engages with community. I will decide that based on the history of the blog.
- Applicant must read and get familiar with curie guides and rules. Please check @curie blog posts and steeemit.chat #curie channel pinned messages and FAQ. Also read this guide by @liberosist here.
How is the process going to work:
Step 1 : Make sure you complete rules section and you qualify
Step 2: Leave a comment explaining why you would like to be a curator and what makes you the best candidate. Find a great post that fits the rules and guidelines, upvote it, resteem it, and leave a link to it along with your comment.
Step 3: I will reply in the comment if you are accepted for interview, then you can contact me on steemit.chat directly. I will also reply to those who are rejected in comments. Those who are rejected can reapply next time if this program continues.
Step 4: I will ask those who accepted for interview few questions, and based on that select ones for mentorship.
Step 5: Those selected for mentorship will need to curate and find 4 great posts and message me directly. This will have to happen gradually, not at once. If I find the posts acceptable I will submit those posts to curie. If I reject one post, candidate will get one more chance to submit me another post. If I reject more than one candidate will be rejected. If curie rejects a single post, candidate will be disqualified. During the process of post discoveries we will be discussing posts and curation methods in chat, so I can share my knowledge and skills.
Step 6: Once all 4 posts were successful and mentorship is completed successfully, I will recommend the prospective curator.
Step 7: Ultimately reviewers will need to approve the recommendation. If they approve, candidate becomes a curator.
These rules and process might change or be completely removed. Since this is a new process, I am not sure how it will work out. I can stop this process at any time. Please be respectful of my decision.
In the event this experiment is successful and I continue maintaining top curator position, I might continue this in the future and those who received rejection can reapply.
Curation groups like Curie is what makes a content-based blog platform like Steemit great. I completely respect what you are doing. I think I have an idea of how many hours of dedicated curation go into checking blogs from new and upcoming authors. Curation might be the single most important aspect of this platform, I think. If we want Steemit to succeed, as a community we must promote great content to make it easily visible.
It's so easy for great new authors to become frustrated with the fact that on your own, it's extremely tough to attain some visibility. I know I am biased and I know not all of my posts were all great, but I still feel proud of some of the posts I did. I try to enhance visibility by using these paid upvote-boosting services. But then, getting 80 upvotes but only 10 pageviews is not encouraging either.
Since I'm dutch I tend to be a little critical as well. So I also think that Curie might always be struggling to find enough dedicated curators that can work according to the strict Curie requirements for quality. Those strict rules can feel a little elitarian to the rest of the community. But I do think you are really doing a amazing and respectful job.
I would like to see more initiatives like Curie. With a similar goal, i.e. finding great content and promote it, but maybe with a little different focus and slightly different rules. How great would it be, if next to the 'home', 'new', hot', 'trending' and 'promoted' tabs, there would be a 'curation' page where different curating groups would have a spot to promote original and new blog posts?
Thanks for this comment! Have a great day!!
A curation tab on the main menu is an absolutely fantastic idea!
I agree! @ironshield
@geekgirl, I have been trying to become a curator but is extremely hard to get at mentorship.
I would love to be a curator because of the rewards. I'm always looking for quality blogs to follow anyway and will be great to get some extra bonus for me and many other great posts I see get lost every day. I have been in the curie chat I'm capable of curate properly and follow all the rules if you think I will be a good apprentice let me know.
If you don't apply following described steps, I wouldn't be able to tell.
i invited many student to join steemit, i told them to create good content, sometime they feel bored when they have created a good content but they dont get better reward, my purpose to join curie to propose their best content to curie to make them spirit for creating content by getting more reward of their content, therefore, they can tell their friend to join steemit and compete to create best content depend on their skill.
you application is not complete, you have not provided a link as described in Step 2. You are disqualified this time. Try next time. Thank you for participating.
I forgot input the link, thanks for your kindly. i will participate next time @geekgirl
Hi, I don't like curie and others who decide which is good or not. I prefer to let the readers decide. It feels unnatural and manipulated when a few people at curie do these things. Have you had the same thoughts yet or do you see it from a different perspective?
What's the difference, really? The curators at Curie are readers too. It's a free and open market, we all do our best to curate content :)
On the contrary, Curie empowers curators to find an undiscovered post and give it the attention it deserves. Otherwise, Curie is a very small project, and the overall votes take less than 5% of the reward pool. Less than individual whales, and less than stuff like randowhale. So, it barely affects your curation.
Also, on the contrary, it encourages people to read new and hot, as they might good posts that are a) worthy of being submitted to Curie; and b) frontrun Curie to cash in the curation rewards. Voting on a post after Curie has voted is absolutely unprofitable - that's how Steemit's curation rewards algo works. You'd want to vote before.
That's not true either. Sure, good formatting is nice; but we have often voted on posts with poor English / dodgy formatting even because the content was so good. Literally thousands of such posts have been voted by Curie.
Curie has over 700 curators since Streemian Guilds opened in February, and a further 500 before that. Instead of one or two whales voting everything, we have hundreds of curators sharing their voices. That's like the exact definition of dynamic.
I feel you have totally misunderstood how Curie works. Either way, to each their own. It's a free market.
I guess I got it wrong then. Thanks for explaining! :)
Holy cow! That's a crazy number of curators! Are they all active? Who actually parses through all those options?
However you guys are making it work, I think your doing a great job - it's awesome to see new users catapulted to trending. I wasn't curied, but I had a similar single large post, and it was a major motivator early on.
One interesting Curie related phenomenon - I was going through the last couple of weeks posts and checking out the authors to see where they stood after payout. Sadly, at least a couple never even stuck around the platform long enough to collect - they just have a couple of hundred dollars sitting unclaimed in an abandoned account. Tried to find them on steemit chat and discord, but no luck :(
Edit: @zenmotherfucker is the main one I was thinking about - but I can't figure out how to contact him - not on for 20 days - and like 200$+ waiting for him.
I think curie is serving community great deal. That is just my opinion.
i think so, curie was help me when my reputation was 28, curie upvoted me and my reputation be 35, i wanna join this curie if i meet minimum requirement of curie member, thanks @geekgirl
I ready to reapply Application for mentorship.
Thank you @geekgirl. I love writing posts and good content but unfortunately I am not old enough here at steemit to participate. Have only been here for 2 and a half weeks and loving bloggging. Followed
you can always come back
I'm already a curator in curie but I may need mentorship. Anything you can help me with that?
dm me. we can talk
Alright. Thanks!
This is cool. Curie is almost like reddit.jobs, only like Steemit.jobs.com
Hi @geekgirl,
I want to be a curator because I like to read and review articles. I have experience in this as well. For few years, I was working as a researcher and I was reviewing articles for journals, such as 'drug and alcohol dependence', nicotine and tobacco research' and few others. I have also published my own research which is available online. So I had been working as a researcher and a reviewer. So I think, I will definitely enjoy my role as a curator in Steemit, and I will hopefully do well.
I have chosen this article for you.
https://steemit.com/news/@zen12/so-why-should-we-fight-for-privacy-privacy-it-s-nobody-s-business
I read and understood the rules of curie before selecting this article. Also, I have upvoted and resteemed it and left my comment about it as well.
I look forward to your response.
Thanks!
I think being part of the curie project is a tough job. You need to read every single thing. Thanks for being there, and wish you have lots of fun in reading and selecting the best authors
@geekgirl
i have community in here, in indonesia. But i still see their post got nothing though their post is an originally and have a good content to read and view. It's will be hard to build a community if their effort on their blog means nothing. I want to apply this job because iI want to help many author out there who have original content on their blog.
Lets visit this one for an example:
https://steemit.com/charity/@foways/has-donated-half-of-the-wealth-to-abandoned-children-and-the-poor-or-25-payout-of-this-post-for-donations-2017820t202817396z
best regards..
Keep up the great work, and hope to see you mentor many promising new curators!
Also, a request to applicants - please don't spam geekgirl. Only get in touch if you are truly serious about curating.
im seriuosly, many days ago, i ask you in steemchat, maybe you have busy time then you cant reply my message.
Habla, blah blah blah blah blah, Español for my bunghole...
Well-thought out application process. Wishing you the best! :)
I would like to see yours soon
Haha thanks. 😊 I'll work hard to get to that point soon. 😉
Congrats, hope you make it.
You had recommended my story to Curie a few weeks back. It did get mentioned on their post. I appreciated that of you.
Have fun curating.
Thank you.
The proof of abilities is results.
I was one of the founding curators part of @ocd (Operation Curation Delegation) and just recently left and am a free agent. I wrote the first week of the OCD Daily Compilation posts, which described 6-8 nominated content a day. I was a curator for @ocd until a few days ago so I am familiar with the curation process of having specific guidelines that submissions and authors must meet.
Also, if you look at my resteems you see a a great amount of quality resteems of articles from newcomers to Steemit and under-appreciated, quality content producing Steemians.
Also, I missed two daily nominations out of 30+ daily nominations possible. 28/30 is consistent, quality results.
This is what I will bring to Curie as a new curator. I will bring hard work, consistency, and quality results for as long as y'all will have me. You can ask @acidyo for a curation reference, he knows all about how hard I work and what I can do for a curation team.
Looking forward to hear back from you. I am on Steemit.chat and Discord as @chiefmappster .
Here is the link for the article:
Namaste :)
You haven't included a link. Make sure Step 1 and Step 2 are complete.
Oops sorry forgot to put it in there. Edited now. Article might need some editing and a picture or two but is awesome life content nonetheless from a newbie Steemian
If you have completed step 1, you would have realized the link you provided does not fit the guidelines of curie. I am sorry to say this, but you are disqualified. Try next time. Thanks for participating.
Lol yeah I put the wrong link. No worries. Good luck.
Namaste :)
Nice to see the first one. Thanks @geekgirl for bringing this system for selecting new curators. :)
However, as this is the first trial, wishing you all the best. Alsi recommending a person as a new curator is also risky to the recommender herself/himself, if the selected curator doesn't work good.
Hats off for this brave step and being the first one.
All the best to all the applicants.
I also wish to apply but currently have some busy schedule for a week. Maybe next time I'll try.
Thank you. Next time it is.
I would like to curate for Curie as I aleady curate mathematics and physics content and am the founder of the Minnows Acceleration Project. It is rather like being an agent with different publishers - similar roles but fulfilling slightly different criteria. Would also be good to see more popular science articles on Curie. I am also a published author of non-fiction.
upvoted and resteemed:
https://steemit.com/writing/@snowmachine/edgar-allan-poe-and-lives-defined-by-loss
you are invited for an interview. contact me on steemit.chat
@geekgirl, I would like to be considered for an interview, if you haven't already chosen someone, that is.
I believe that this post may fit your guidelines:
https://steemit.com/history/@robertscott12/the-myth-of-osirus
One reason I would make a good curator is that I have lots of time. I'm also interested in curating a very important topic that does not have a hashtag and have been helping informally another trail curator (I will discuss this with you if I qualify for interview). Thank you for considering my application; I hope it is not too late.
you are invited for an interview. contact me on steemit.chat . I will ask 2 questions. if you can answer we move on to the next step. Please be familiar with curie rules.
Thank you, I will.
Really Nice initiative by @geekgirl.
I am resteeming this, If this post helps you or anyone who you know can get benifit from this so just share it.
I already asked this question on #cuire chat and it is answer in nicely, Thank you @geekgirl.
I will try to participate in this so stay tuned.
You are almost there :)
Hi, this is a great post I would really love to apply, however I do not fulfill all the standards required as yet.
Hope to see this project continuing in the future! Along with mentorship to become a better curator.
Keep up the good work. :-)
You are almost there. Just be prepared when you are ready.
@geekgirl, Actually i live in Indonesia which that no so many steemit that you can find in here, but we still on progress to build a great community in here. There are some people who has been a steemit user around me, and we have also have a curator in our country.. I write an original post on my steemit profile, and always tell to the other to make a good content in here. Then, what i can be a curator to build a great community with original works in here..?
that i have a classified? thank you for your consideration
Your application is incomplete. Steps how to apply are described in the post. You are disqualified this time.
@geekgirl, i would like to be curator. I belong to a community and i will like to see my community grow, remain strong and active on steemit. I also like the reward too. I have gotten quite a number of upvote from curie on my blog too. I really like what curie is doing to encourage new steemit accounts to stay and be active. Curie has been a source of motivation to me personally.
Here is a link to a post i upvoted and resteemd.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@antonette/homeless-steemit-mother-behind-the-laugh
I belong to African community, Nigerian community and steemitdotcom community
Thank you for participating. Link you provided is already a successful post, this would not fit rules and guidelines of curie curation. Sorry to say, you are disqualified.
Ok. Excited anyway. Thanks
Revisit Step 1 and try next time.
@geekgirl
why i want to apply?
It's because i invites people to join on steemit to build this platform with a good ways, I tell them to make a good content, not "slip slap slop" content. It's very important to build something with a contents that can be build each other.
So, that's why i can be a curator to find a best author in out there to bring them a reward for they great content and their original works. It's can be build myself to make a trust from the other. There so many author out there with best quality content that never know about the Curie Project.
My background is Community Development Officer in one Non Government Organization in my province.
I have a good post that i recommended to review:
https://steemit.com/culture/@rahmanovic/coffee-a-hug-in-a-mug-2017724t175958881z
thankyou for your consideration.
I admire your passion. But you are disqualified for the second time now. It is so obvious you have not read the rules and guidelines at curie blog or #curie channel.
The link you provided is 17 days old. If you are not willing to learn the rules, I wouldn't be able to help.
o ya, i forgot about that..? can i try again..?
not for this round. You can try again next week.
okay
I really appreciate this kind of things where people help other people, especially the new one! thanks ;)
I don't know if i'm fit to be a curator, or it's way to complex for me. :D
I just love interacting to my fellow Steemians and putting a smile on their faces. Anyways, good luck searching for the best candidate! Keep on Steemin'! ^u^
Bah. No one will look at my content. Because it's quality and Steemit doesn't do that. Am I being sarcastic? {:
I would love to be part of it!
The authors from the post we have to look after should be minnows? Or we should find undervalued posts :D?
It would be your job to find out reading @curie blog and #curie pinned messages and faq. All info is out there, I don't want to repeat. Those who really want to be a curator will find out.
200 follower!growth at 20 more per week continues....thank so much to you all!!@news contest at 20
100% of the prize of the post. The mild rewards will be matched with the SBD contribution equivalent to the Steem power received. You can view and vote on announcements here or on other posts from @alfa for the next week.
Great results! Thanks for sharing
Hello, I hope you will find good curators for Curie. My experience was: first link was accepted, next week I tried an undervalued art post, it got rejected by the curator but he/she accepted 3 recipes during 2 hours while I was checking. I am not complaining but probably that was a foodie day...
Goodyear job! Nice post
Upvoted and also resteemed :)
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If you have read the post you would know what to do.
New rules again?
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Hey @geekgirl.
First I want to say Thank you for starting this amazing project. As I told you that I'll contact you after understanding curie rules, now you gave me opportunity for become curator there. So I don't want to miss that opportunity. I learned many things there. This is my my entry, if you think now I'm able for that then please check my entry.
Thank you.
https://steemit.com/news/@bindu/nepal-incessant-rainfall-results-vulnerable-terai-districts-by-flood-hazard
Based on our previous conversation, I am sorry to say, you are disqualified.
Wow! But you didn't mention there that you are doing it on previous conversation.
Great job curie!! I hope a day I could be part of the team...
https://steemit.com/@munawir91
The curie community and it's current curators are doing very great to see that all good and great content creators are sponsored and encouraged to do more in the steemit community.
I am applying for mentorship to be a curie curator, reason been that i love to help the less privileged content creator who are new and just getting to know more about the community.
The reason i think makes me the best candidate are as follows:
I went in search of an article that would fit the curie criteria, and i found this: https://steemit.com/food/@jovema/fishball.
Conclusion
I have spent lot of time in the community, trying to learn and understand every basic by learning from users already in the platform. I am honoured to be a part of the great community (steemit).
I do hope that my Application to be a curie curator is been considered and accepted.
Thank you
Is this curie position still open
Well ..... i will love to be a curator to
1....... get better value for steem and viewers
2........ get better rewards for myself
3....... to get better challenges and try to be the best
4....... build a better reputation for myself
Are you still running this on Hive? I am wondering.
Unfortunately, no.
Okay. Thanks.
I have an okay track record and I curate for Hive Naija, just in case you need curator.
Every one of the posts in this series is a major warning to humanity to notice now that those running our governments and major corporations are too often criminally minded and at worst absolutely psychopathic and a danger to all life everywhere.Some cases have more supporting evidence than others though and in the case in this post there is a wealth of official government papers and human testimony involved to show serious criminality.
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War is a 1999 book by Eileen Welsome.It is a history of U.S. government-engineered radiation experiments on unwitting Americans, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning series Welsome wrote for the Albuquerque Tribune.
The purpose of the experiments was to assess the effect of radioactivity on the human body.For example, between April 1945 and July 1947, 18 people were injected with plutonium by doctors associated with the Manhattan Project.None of these men, women, and children were told what was being done, and none gave informed consent.Most of the subjects, Welsome writes, "were the poor, the powerless, and the sick -- the very people who count most on the government to protect them".
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You can give him a flag, I just did it too. For 'miscategorized content'.