Curie Weekly Update (19th March to 26th March 2017)

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.

• For those new to Curie, please follow @curie, and join us in #curie on Steemit.chat.
• All curators on Steemit are cordially invited to submit posts to Curie at http://curiesteem.com. A finder's fee of 8 Steem is available for each upvoted post. Essentially, Curie enables any curator on Steemit to give a post you like a whales' upvote; and in return, you receive a whales' curation reward. All without investing a million dollars :)
• Follow @curie's votes to support the authors. Please consider following our trail and voting for curated authors. If you are a Streemian user, @curie is an available trail to follow.
• Remember to follow and interact with authors that you love going through The Daily Curie.

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News and announcements

• 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 180 minnows and dolphins following our trail. Thank you for your support!
• With the recent rise in price, there has been an influx of new authors. We'll continue discovering them. Curators are recommended to focus on new authors as more established authors will now exceed the max payout limit eligibility easily.
• Due to the low volume of curation while the experiment is on, there will be no The Daily Curie posts.

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Weekly Statistics

Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 228 posts at an average of 33 posts per day. A total of 179 unique authors were rewarded.

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Authors

There won't be an authors list this week as there simply wasn't a representative sample of posts curated.

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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 228 posts submitted by curators in http://curiesteem.com, with 1,824 STEEM paid out to curators.

At current operations, we require a minimum CS of 5 and AR of 70% 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 Rate
liberosist	52.2	96.6
alcibiades	24.39	93.3
littlemozart	11.88	71.9
majes	5.12	80
jewierart	4.11	61.1
orangkaya	3.46	58.8
teofilex11	3	100
fubar-bdhr	3	100
mgibson	2.67	66.7
toxichan	1.79	54.5
m4wllt	1.54	55.6
teukumukhlis	1.28	46.2
cepas	1.28	46.2
riefcians	1.08	60
cebymaster	1.01	66.7
practicemagic	1	50
steemedia	0.79	44.4
angels	0.75	50
taktoys	0.55	42.9
victorious	0.55	42.9
charm	0.44	33.3
septiyanachmad	0.42	37.5
teukuderian	0.42	37.5
steemlegend	0.33	33.3
jdbry	0.32	40
bangbadem	0.32	40
alwayzgame	0.11	33.3
akunku	0.06	25
digit	0.04	20
alamcraft	0.04	20

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

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Note: All author rewards from this post will be used to fund Curie.
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