Curie's mission has always been to reward and retain new authors on Steemit. But this update is entirely for curators. The #curie channel on Steemit.chat has been a thriving community since its inception. Home to nearly 800 users, the #curie curator community had grown exponentially, submitting hundreds of posts every day. Our moderators and operators struggled to keep up with the volume and it became clear this was not a scalable solution for running a community project. Enter Streemian's new Guild feature, which finally realizes Curie's vision on bringing curation to the community.

Some of Curie's stats so far

• Current operation lifetime: ~5.5 months
• Operation downtime: 2 days
• Posts upvoted: 13,500+ posts
• SBDs generated for authors: ~400,000 SBDs
• Authors rewarded: 3,500+ authors
• Curators paid: 350+ curators

A complete solution on Streemian (Functional WIP)

In partnership with Streemian, we are developing a complete solution for curation guilds. Currently, Curie is testing the system, but soon anyone will also be able to use Streemian as a base for their own curation guilds. Using Curie's generic workflow model, it is comprehensively parameterized and configurable. In our case, we have made Curie an open-membership type curation guild with specific guidelines. But Streemian's system is malleable to all types of curation guilds.

This would mean that anyone with a Steemit account will be able to suggest posts on Curie's frontend, and receive a finder’s fee if the submission is approved.

On the flipside, here are the features that will be available for any guild owners:-

• A page that shows recent votes by guild and some statistics.
• Membership management (Open / Invite-Only / Limitation-Settings / etc)
• Proposal box (For users to drop links to recommend posts)
• Configurable filter for submitted posts (Age / Rep / Payout / Posting Frequency / etc)
• Administrative settings (Profile / Global-Settings / Membership management / Filter / etc)
• Reviewing system (Approve / Disapprove / Comment)
• Accounting system
• Soon to be configurable curation score system (Essentially a level-up / level-down system to promote consistent, quality curators)
• Curation leaderboard (pending)
• Many other features are in the pipeline

Curators Score (new implementation - important!)

With Streemian’s Curie app, all curation will be unified. The general guidelines will be the same for everyone. However, to keep the submissions streamlined and spamming in check, we have evolved the tiered system from #curie. The Top 12 curators every week will have no submission limits, and able to submit posts 45 minutes after creation. The Top 12 curators will shuffle every week based on their performance the previous week. Performance will be dictated by Curators Score.

Curators Score is number of posts approved multiplied by approval rate. Approval rate is the percentage of total submissions made by each curator which are approved. We are emphasising quality over quantity, while also encouraging regular curation.

For example, a curator who spams the channel with 100 posts and gets only 10 approved has a Curators Score of just 1. Whereas a curator who submits just 2 good posts and has both approved will have a Curators Score of 2. A curator who submits 10 posts and has 8 accepted has a Score of 6.4. So, to win Curie, submit high quality posts regularly but discriminately. We’ll continue listening to feedback from curators to adjust this process including some of the numbers / thresholds.

We’ll have monthly bonuses for curators who consistently significantly outperform other curators over the month. Conversely, curators with exceptionally poor Curators Score will be disqualified and suspended from submitting posts.

We hope this will lead to a decentralised and meritocratic environment where the best curators on Steemit receive the maximum opportunity.

The Finder’s Fee will continue to be 8 Steem per approved post, subject to change with our budget.

Curie's Submission Guidelines

1. New and verified authors only, who have been persistent without much success. Brand new authors who have one or two posts without verification do not qualify. General guideline for "new author" would be 62 Reputation and under. The lower the Rep, the more likely they are to be voted. (Steem Guild will look out for posts by more established authors)

2. Posts must be more than 150 minutes old (I.e. 3 hours ago on Steemit), but less than 20 hours, with less than $1 pending payout.

3. Authors must not have earned more than $10 from a single post in the last 2 days. I.e. don't submit a post if the author has earned more than $10 on a post marked "yesterday" or "X hours ago" - has to be "2 days ago" or more.

4. Only original content. Articles, art, poetry, videos, recipes, etc. that appear first on Steemit. Please make sure sources are linked properly and check for plagiarism before posting here.

5. No Steemit-related, photography, religious, introduceyourself or political posts.

6. Maximum 5 submissions per day.

7. English posts only. Steem Guild will look out for other languages.

Using Streemian's Guild submission platform

Curie's submission platform is available at https://streemian.com/guild/curie. It is also accessible by typing in Curiesteem.com.

To start submitting posts, all you need to register on Streemian and link your Steem account. You need not verify your Steem account, though that maybe required for some of Streemian's other services. Do note Finder's fees will be paid into this Steem account.

Once registered, click on "Propose Post", paste in the URL, and voilà!

Last but not least, we would like to heartily thank @xeroc and @chainsquad for their incredible work and support. We hope to see many other curation guilds operating on Streemian or similar services, building upon the thriving curation community on Steemit.

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Some screenshots

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Note: All author rewards from this post will be used to fund Curie.
Join us in #curie on Steemit.chat, vote for @curie as witness and follow us @curie!
Curie's frontend is available at http://curiesteem.com

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