The Daily Curie (21-22 Feb 2017)
Introduction
Curie is a community project run by several Steemit authors. Our mission is to help discover and reward new content creators who are posting all sorts of original content, and give them the exposure that they need. In partnership with @val, @clayop, @hendrikdegrote, @proskynneo and @kushed, Curie aims to provide rewards to these deserving authors whether they are writers, artists, chefs, photographers, videographers, and more.
In full transparency, you will be able to find a published list every day detailing all the posts that Curie has chosen by our curators. At the same time, our hope is that this list will provide more positive exposure to the selected authors. We invite curators to submit hidden gems at http://curiesteem.com. For more info, please check this post out - here.
We hope that you will consider following not only this @curie account, but also many of the authors whose work is featured here each day. Please consider adding your comments on these posts also! You can follow @curie's outgoing votes to see our curation in real time and donate your votes.
Today's Brief Analysis
Today's list polls all posts curated between 21/02 15:00 UTC and 22/02 15:00 UTC. Curie voted on a total of 53 posts. SBD 872 has been generated for authors thus far, at an average of SBD 16.50 per post. The lowering average is due to Steem's recent decline in price.
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A big thank you for this magnificent list of quality authors and articles. Your work is so helpful for the whole community: Thank! Thank you!! Thank you!!!
All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
Agree with smooth
Downvoted as I believe that curation guilds should be funded from curation rewards and not by directly hurting the users they are supposed to be helping by draining the reward pool.
Thanks for doing this
Obviously, that would be the ideal scenario, and I'm excited that it's all set to happen in a couple of weeks! The community spoke overwhelmingly against declining payouts when we did so (both on that post and in the #curie channel). However, I'm confident that post-Hardfork 17 and Steem Power delegations we can change the community's opinion that declining payouts is fine.
Thank you for your patience.
Hardfork 17 is irrelevant. the same curation rewards are being generated now and it only takes one click or CLI command for a portion of those rewards to be transferred to the @curie account and used place of the post rewards generated here. Prior to HF16 you could make the argument that powering down the vested curation rewards would take too long. That argument was still false considering the full stake available to the whales providing vote power, however it was perhaps less false than after HF16 (i.e. now).
I'm sure you're aware that Curie's major sponsor is Val, and that Steemit Inc employees have committed to not power down for 3 months; and never at full rate. Unfortunately, this means the rewards are stuck in SP while Val has a very limited amount of liquid Steem. If I'm not mistaken, Steem Power is not transferable. There's no way for Val to share rewards immediately; instead the rewards go into a virtual pool. For reference.
I hope you understand our situation. We are doing our best, if there's anything else we can do, please let us know. All I can personally do is apologise for the past, and fortunately, the situation will have a solution very soon.
I would be happy to make a STEEM-denominated loan in any necessary amount secured by val's account. Perhaps his employer could do the same considering they are sitting on millions of liquid STEEM. This is not exactly high finance. Where there is a will, there is a way. When it is easier to make posts and self vote, there is no need for a will. (I'm not sure but I think you might not be self-voting any more, or perhaps less, but you certainly were for a long time and a very significant cumulative amount.)
Also, I could be mistaken but I believe that ned and dan were the only ones to explicitly commit to not power down. There might have been an informal commitment from the others, or a formal one that I didn't see, I'm not sure. Nevertheless, it is easily worked around, as I explained above.
Thank you for that. We are almost there now, but we'll be sure to keep your offer in mind in case we run into challenges.
To be fair, that was several months ago, at a time it was generally accepted by the community to use the reward pool however they wish. We had developers, Steemsports, charities, initiatives etc. etc. all raising funding from the pool.
Of course, the community sentiment has changed drastically and Curie responded to that. Like I mentioned before, we even went the Payout Declined route, but the community overwhelmingly supported accepting payouts. As far as I'm aware, there has been no "self-voting" for at least 2 months on The Daily Curie posts - all votes are from the community.
Funds are actually distributed to every curator participating in http://curiesteem.com by the end of each week. So in a way, it's also going back to the users - just fyi, the dv is understandable
https://steemd.com/@curie?page=11
That's a good point, and indeed, these are some of the most actively engaged users of Steemit. Of course, SP Delegation will be a much better way of achieving this :) Nearly there.
As you know I am and have been a supporter of redistribution initiatives (such as steemsports and others). However, in this case you are duplicating as system that already exists, curation incentives, and effectively double dipping.
Cold.!!! I like it..
Excellent witness @curie
Good luck
Thank you for the mention! I appreciate the support, as I try to get established here.
i'm glad that i'm on it. thanks, @curie
Thank you once again @curie. Your team support is well appreciated!
Thanks for the mention
Thanks @curie :)
Thank you for including me!