I never currated for Curie. I always have a couple of curators that I can suggest a post too...
Adsactly. That's how I know so well of some of the fuckery that OCD faced. They were part of that enormous circle jerk that drove the other place for a couple years. Speaking of suspiciously rewarded posts. I was part of their curation team. We had 3 full votes to use most days, unless the circle jerk over circled. We checked EVERY awarded post for plagiarism.
Part of the reason I know as much as I do is that I also wrote for adsactly. I got a percentage of the reward so never bellyached too much about the circle. I'd feel worse if I didn't know that I did some real good writing there. And I met some really good people, too.
That's right - Adsactly! I had almost forgotten about hem - that was some circle. There were a couple worse, still is one that seems very persistent...