Curie has been a great initiative from my point of view, we know all the positivism that represents for the forgotten authors and has been transparent with its main function that is to encourage users to not leave the ship.
We know that one rule say that authors with more than 60 points of reputation not not qualify for the project, so my advice for people who when reach this level of reputation is do not feel discouraged and keep writing and sharing your content, because I'm sure that the curie project already have connected you with many more people, so your content will have much more support.
To those minnows at 60, make a new account to be qualified in curie.
That rule is just a guideline to help people find "new authors". We are also working on ways to continue rewarding authors who are no longer "new" but don't have consistent support outside of Curie yet.
If thats the case, Im relieved. :)
Thanks for that info @liberosist that is really good to know.