When you get Curied your reward go flying

This is an application for those who are interested in becoming a Curie curator. Curie is a community witness that discovers promising authors with exceptional posts and add value to the platform. At the same time Curie empowers quality curation. If you would like to be part of Curie and join as a curator I would like to help. Curie operates based on meritocracy. If you would like to become a curator you need to be recommended by top curators. Top curators list change every week based on curators' performance. This week I managed to be one of the top curators and I am able to recommend new curators who can demonstrate that they can perform quality curating.

To learn more about Curie please visit @curie blog and our discord channel here. You will find up-to-date information about Curie guidelines in this channel. Curie guidelines change from time to time, and newest update are announced and pinned in this channel.

How does Curie work?

When curators find an exceptional post that fits Curie guidelines they submit it to www.curiesteem.com for a review. Then reviewers review the post and determine whether to approve or disapprove the submission. If the submission is approved that post receives a generous Curie upvote and that approval is counted towards curator's Curation Score. Curators will receive a finder's fee of 10 Steem for each approved post. If the submission is disapproved, that post will not receive a Curie vote and disapproval will lower curator's Curation Score. There is a formula to calculate the Curation Score:

Curation Score(CS) = Number of Posts Approved x (Approval Rate x Approval Rate)

Approval Rate is equal to the number of posts approved divided by the total number of submissions. For example, if I submitted 4 posts, 3 of them got approved and 1 got disapproved my CS would be 1.68

CS = 3 x 3/4 x 3/4

Maintaining high Approval Rate is very important. Because a single disapproval can lower CS significantly. Curators who cannot maintain minimum 50% AR for the given month may be disqualified. On the other hand curators with higher score and approval rate may become top curators. Also, CS determines the number of posts curators can submit for that week. There are 3 tiers:

1. CS < 2.5 get weekly limit of 5 submissions
2. CS > 2.5 get weekly limit of 15 submissions
3. CS => 7 and AR => 90% get unlimited submissions

To review the Curie guidelines please visit the Discord channel and read the pinned posts. Please get familiar with guidelines before considering to apply to become a curator.

How to Apply

After reviewing Curie guidelines, if you still have questions feel free to ask in the comments here. I will try to answers them to the best of my knowledge. However, if you are going to ask questions that are already covered in guidelines I may ignore them.

Once you have a clear understanding of how Curie works, practice curating and once you find an exceptional post please leave the link in the comments. I will review them when I get a chance. After reviewing if I think post qualifies for Curie, I will respond. Some comment may not receive a response from me if they do not fit the basic guidelines. That would just tell me you are not serious about becoming a curator.

Applicants who can prove to be quality curators will be recommended. If an applicant submit 3 posts in the comments that I find exceptional or of great quality, that would be proof enough for me to recommend them. However, constant submissions of poor quality posts that do no add value to the platform or do not meet the guidelines may be ignored.

Quality curating is not an easy task. It does require time, patience, practice and learning. I do not mind mentoring promising curators, as long as they are willing to put in the effort to learn. So please visit Curie Discord channel and read the pinned messages to learn about the guidelines. Also, read this post on Expanded Explanation on guidelines. After reading those if you still have questions, feel free to ask in the comments.

Curie is community witness that has been involved in making Steem work for everybody for more than a year. Please vote for @curie witness to express your support.