Every time i see a post like this, i get just a bit more skeptical.
I like to give ppl the benefit of the doubt, but it seems really questionable when the stated purpose of the project is to get rewards to these new authors, but the actual effect seems to be getting rewards to established users who are posting about PC.
The curie account itself seems to get @6-700 a day, which is a non trivial percentage of author rewards. Plus however many posts like this there are from individual participants.
Already answered you in the chat. Do your own due diligence next time!
Since it was initially posted here, and since it was also directed to me on an open channel in chat, I am reposting @the-alien 's original response to me, which he deleted, at the bottom.
The hysterical tone of the reply, as well as the numerous personal insults, make me even more skeptical about this project. As I said in my initial post, i like to give people the benefit of the doubt. When i look at projects like this, I want to believe the best. FWIW, i have gone out of pocket maybe $1500 total on this site, just to give people money for posts i found interesting or helpful. I also have close to 80K steem power that i don't really use. You had an opportunity to convince me that you could understand and sympathize with my concerns (which, btw, many share). Instead, you significantly increased my unease about projects such as this.
Given the support this has from whales with far more steem resources than I have, i guess at the end of the day i wouldnt have been significant anyway.
But being positive is not the same as checking your ability to think critically at the door. And not taking a moment to wonder if there should be thousands a week in rewards going to a blog about curation is just bad critical thinking. Especially when that distribution seems to fly in the face of the stated purpose of the project (to get more blogging reward for aspiring authors).
Even if the answer is ultimately that yes, this is a beneficial way to spend X% of the blogging reward pool, an inability to look at the matter critically and logically (or the view that such critical thinking is somehow tnatamount to an accusation of wrongdoing) is ultimately harmful to the platform.
I was done with this issue when i posted my first response. I am truly done now. Its clear where the-alien stands on the matter. I hope others reading my comments will take a more sober view and interpret them as they were intended, as food for thought.
All I said is true.
Easily verifiable, open source and all. :)
And I stand by it, steemit owes me nothing, I don't feel owed. What I do I do voluntarily because I do fucking care about this platform.
I stand by all of that.
That's the difference between me and you, I focus on helping, even if it's for free. You focus on trying to bring other people down.
Do what you want, just keep it else where. As I said earlier keep your accusations elsewhere. You have the entire platform and chat to yourself. You can troll me there.
Just leave me alone, ok? Accuse me elsewhere. Somewhere where I don't get notifications.