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 150 minnows and dolphins following our trail. Thank you for your support!

• We're currently beyond operational capacity so we are not accepting submissions from new curators.

• Finder's fees has been revised to 10 STEEM per approved submission.

• We are currently on standby for HF19.

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Updated 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 48 Reputation and under. The lower the Rep, the more likely they are to be voted.
2. Posts must be more than 150 minutes old, but less than 24 hours, with maximum $0.25 pending payout.
3. Authors must not have earned more than $10 from a single post in the last 60 hours.
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 3 submissions per day and 15 submissions per week. Minimum curators score required is 1.
7. English posts only.

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Weekly Statistics

Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 134 posts at an average of 19 posts per day.

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Authors

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

@elena2017
@goldgoatsnguns
@jpperc
@lenadr
@mrssignificant
@nayzer
@paulmcwhorter

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Curators

The Top Curators 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 curators list(or regular curation, if under-performance continues).

This week, we have upvoted 180 posts submitted by curators in http://curiesteem.com, with 1,440 STEEM paid out to curators.

At current operations, we require a minimum CS of 5 and AR of 85% to be eligible for Top 12 and a CS of 1 to be eligible for 3 submissions/day.

Curation Leaderboard

@teofilex11
@alcibiades
@littlemozart
@liberosist
@toxichan
@riyansyahbp

There will be only 6 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.
Join us in #curie on Steemit.chat, vote for @curie as witness and follow us @curie!

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