Curie Weekly Update (11th Sept to 19th Sept 2016)
There are several announcements in this weekly update - both minor and major. In spirit of Project Curie's transparency, we wish use this weekly section as an ongoing development blog on our project to promote communication on top of the many casual exchanges happening in channel #curie.
- For those new to Curie, please follow @curie, and join us in https://steemit.chat/channel/curie
- Most Curie members are taking time off content creation for curation works, so please check out our members' contents whenever possible.
- Remember to follow and interact with authors that you love whenever going through The Daily Curie.
Important announcement
Channel #curie will soon to be moderated by @royaltiffany, @pfunk, and @firepower - all three being very helpful and reputable members of the Steemit community since the early days. Covering three major continents around the world, we hope that the coverage will supercharge channel #curie - making it reactive, fun, and lively.
Due to the increasing volume of activity in Curie, and in spirit of retaining honest users on Steemit, we are considering implementing these soon:-
- Limited number of submissions per user per 24 hours.
Known plagiarists, claiming works as their own will be forever blacklisted from Curie considerations.- Edited: Known plagiarists, claiming works as their own will naturally be avoided for Curie considerations until sufficiently proven to be trustworthy again. Please understand that we go through thousands of posts a day, and know that plagiarism isn't helping anyone do better on the platform.
- A "karma" system for each participants in channel #curie that tracks frequency of suggestion on authors, self-promotion, and other meaningful metrics. We hope to promote curation that helps relatively new and unknown users, not surefire candidates.
Beyond the #curie chat, we have also made several changes to our process this week, in response to the news detailed in our Special Edition.
Weekly Statistics
Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 884 posts at an average of 126 posts per day. A total of 455 unique authors were rewarded, which is close to 25% of actively engaged users. SBD 31,050 was generated at an average of SBD 35 per post. The posts curated varies on a daily basis, largely due to the fluctuation of quantity of posts that meet our criteria, but we are targeting an average of 150 posts per day going forward, while screening over 2,000 posts everyday.
These numbers all represent an uplift from the data from the first month. However, the average rewards for authors have decreased due to a decline in the value of Steem and rewards being spread across more authors.
Authors
The Top 10 Authors by payouts last week were -
- @dwinblood
- @shenanigator
- @krnel
- @pjheinz
- @herpetologyguy
- @infinitor
- @senseye
- @justtryme90
- @peskov
- @edgarsart
Tags/Topics
The top topics remain pretty much the same.
The only change is that science has overtaken travel, which is in line with our continuing focus on science and technology related posts. Moving forward, we'd love to see more diversity and niche topics appear on this treemap.
#curie @ https://steemit.chat/channel/curie
We upvoted 124 posts submitted in #curie, with SBD 620 paid out / pending payouts to curators. 56 curators submitted posts by other authors. All these numbers are up from the week before.
@pfunk defends his title as the top curator in #curie, though the competition is heating up.
We'll have a new champion next week, as @pfunk takes over moderating #curie.
Daily Statistics
Whether it by daily posts curated or SBD generated, Curie is clearly scaling up.
Yesterday was an all new record in across all parameters, and we don't intend to stop here.
The interest in #curie has been trending upwards. Sept 17th was the most active day in the channel's short history. As mentioned above, we are working on expanding the channel and hope to receive more submissions.
Have you considered a more dynamic finder's fee model? Rather than paying a flat finder's fee of 5 SBD, you could adjust it higher or lower based on the number of times that author has been Curied.
Book-keeping is currently a big headache - we're definitely considering a dynamic model once we've sorted out automated book-keeping, tracking, and all that jazz :)
Thanks for your reply. I was unsure how much of the process you had automated.
Here's to the success of this project!
This project will only be successful when it's no longer needed. :)
Touché!
Great words there!!!!
True, but doesn't it feel weird to cheer "hoping your project dies so we know Steemit is in a great place!"
I love what this team is doing, forever supporter :)
Thanks the hard work @curie and team, and thanks for support my posts the last week.
Keep building and attracting more followers :) All the best!
Just a thought. Maybe you are hitting the correct niche articles, but people are labeling them 'science' or 'life' just to get some exposure. If you label your post only your niche categories then it is far less visible to the general population.
I know I have done it.
That is certainly a fair point. The 'life' tag is most abused, to the point we don't consider it anymore. At the end of the day, those are only statistics.
What we meant was, we'd love to see more niche content, irrespective of tags etc.
I love what you're doing with the curie-project, but I fear it's only a band-aid to a broken curation system that too heavily rewards those on the far right of the SP scale and too lightly rewards those on the far left.
I've come up with what I believe might be a solution to the imbalanced (unfair) Steem distribution model, in this article about making time spent on a post weigh into voting, versus the see-post-by-popular-author-spend-1-second-to-upvote model that Steemit is currently running.
Our time is valuable, both whales and minnows alike, and Steemit doesn't currently acknowledge that in their payment distribution model; hence, the poor user retention, IMO.
Check out my article (linked above) to see my suggestion for how to do so in an intelligent way that integrates account Steem Power value, which I believe is fairer to all parties involved/ invested in Steem.
This is awesome!!!! Let it grow to recognise more quality content by minnows. STEEM ON!!!!
You all are doing an amazing job. This project is helping out the community so much! Thank you, thank you, thank you! :)
Lovely statistics! :)
Thank you for the recognition
I hope to contribute to the project by providing original posts and quality . Success for this project. Thank you for all support.