I am so thankful for the Curie project on so many levels. Here are just a few reasons why I believe Curie to be such a valuable project to the growth of Steemit.
Curie gives undiscovered authors hope
There have been several times when I've thought of giving up Steemit. After all the effort I've put into my posts, there is nothing more discouraging to see only a few cents for all the hard work. And to see this repeated over and over again is discouraging to say the least. And like so many other authors out there, when I finally received votes from Curie, and to be acknowledged for my hard work, it was such a good feeling.
Curie provides a positive vibe to the Steemit community
With all the recent arguments and divide that have happened in the community, the Curie project have injected some positive energy into the community. The project is all about helping out others, and that's what we need more of around here, to make the Steemit community enjoyable for us all.
Curie leads to greater engagement of users
I really like the fact that both authors and curators can be rewarded through Curie. The curation rewards for finding posts is really good because it helps to encourage more people to actively look for undiscovered and worthy content.
All this leads to better retention of users, which I believe is just as important, if not more important than attracting new users.
The only thing I like to see improved for Curie would be to be more flexible with the timeframe of the post.
Currently, I think Curie only considers posts between 6-20 hours, but often many of us would be coming across good posts within 6 hours. With the 6 hour limitation, it is easy to forget these good posts. So personally I would like to see this shifted to something like posts between 3-20 hours for posts.
Just some of my thoughts. Keep up the great work, and hope I can be more involved in finding posts in the future too.
Jimmy