In spirit of Curie's transparency, we wish to use this weekly section as an ongoing development blog on our project to communicate our progress on top of the many casual exchanges happening in channel #curie.

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News and announcements

• Due to upcoming changes in Hardfork 19 with a linear reward curve and fewer available votes, Curie will be scaling down to focus on the most promising new authors. This will be a gradual process, and we have already had two rounds of guideline adjustments in the last week to get us started.

• Curie continues to participate in the no-whale voting experiment. We are continuing with a limited operational capacity. More than 80% of Curie's votes today is accounted for not by whales but by the 150 minnows and dolphins following our trail. Thank you for your support!

Weekly Statistics

Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 254 posts at an average of 36 posts per day. This is an increase of 5% over the past week, but remains to be on the low-region compared to pre-hardfork curation activity on Curie, due to our strict threshold for curation.

Authors

The top authors recommended by our curators this week are:-

@anri-avgustino
@kobiespriggs
@redhens
@andrianna
@jeezzle
@magicalwolf
@paniopan
@thegreatomski
@toonpunk
@wandering-girl

Curators

The Top 12 Curator list will dynamically change every other week depending on performance. Anybody will be able to rise up the ranks with consistent, quality curation. Inconsistent, low-quality curation will result in dropping out of Top 12 (or regular curation, if under-performance continues).

This week, we have upvoted 254 posts submitted by curators in http://curiesteem.com, with 2,032 STEEM paid out to curators.

At current operations, we require a minimum CS of 5 and AR of 80% to be eligible for Top 12 and a CS of 1 to be eligible for 5 submissions/day. Curators with an exceptionally high Score over the month will receive a monthly bonus. Currently, the bonus pool is 1,000 Steem/month.

Curation Leaderboard (with at least 5 submissions this week >0 Score)

Curator	Curation Score	Approval Rating
alcibiades	38.56	93.6
m4wllt	23.58	65.5
littlemozart	22.84	72.9
liberosist	18	100
orangkaya	8.69	62.9
teofilex11	5	100
zkalemiss	2.03	53.8
mamenk	1.95	62.5
bangbadem	1.79	54.5
jewierart	1.54	55.6
masenjang	1.03	45.5
arismocyc	0.79	44.4
hatta	0.79	44.4
bangteh	0.75	50
practicemagic	0.22	33.3
steemlegend	0.22	33.3
teukumukhlis	0.12	20
bangboy	0.07	18.2
elementm	0.06	25
angels	0.04	20
artlong	0.03	16.7
banglambang	0.02	12.5

There will be only 4 curators eligible for the unlimited submissions this week.

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