Ways to support Curie - Hardfork 18 Edition
What is Curie?
You have probably heard of Curie, but may not be familiar with the project. Curie is a community project with a mission is to help discover and reward new content creators, and give them the exposure that they need. Everyday, over a hundred curators from around the world select hidden gems from new authors. In partnership over 150 Steemians donating their voting power to @curie's trail, Curie aims to provide rewards to these deserving authors whether they are writers, artists, chefs, photographers, videographers, and more.
Over the last 7.5 months, Curie has upvoted 15,000 posts by 4,000 authors, and paid 350 curators.
So, how can you support Curie?
Become a curator
The fundamental way of supporting Curie is by curating. Anyone is free to become a curator - the project follows an open submission model. All you need to is find promising posts by new authors and copy-paste links to our platform on Streemian. With Steemit preparing a marketing campaign, we need many eyes on new posts to make sure we don't miss any new and promising authors. Let's make sure that this time, unlike in July 2016, we retain valuable authors on Steem!
To mitigate spamming, each curator is assigned Curation Scores based on the quality of their submissions over a week. Quality curators get unlimited submission limits, while inconsistent curators have lower submission limits. This allows us to operate with the ideal combination of decentralisation of curation while still averting spamming and abuse. Long-term top curators are chosen to be reviewers as volume of submissions demands.
For the last several months, the Finder's fee has 8 Steem for each post - you can think of this as a curation reward for your efforts.
Please keep an eye on #curie at Steemit.chat for guidelines to follow and updates.
For complete details on the Curie curation system, please see our post here - https://steemit.com/curation/@curie/curie-and-community-an-open-invitation-for-all-to-be-part-of-our-curation-works-powered-by-streemian
Delegate your Steem Power
With Hardfork 18, you can delegate your Steem Power to curators. By delegating your Steem Power, you can help both increase rewards to curated authors as well as raising funding for the project.
Do note that delegation is ultimately a direct donation. You can make partial delegations, but all Steem Power you delegate to @curie can only be used by Curie - you will no longer be able to power down the delegated SP, vote with it, or earn curation rewards from it. However, you could make a partial delegation, and continue to use the remaining SP as you see fit. A delegation to Curie is a delegation to Steemit's broader community.
Curie's fundraising will be generated from curation rewards through SP delegations now, so they are vital to the project. If you decide to delegate SP to @curie, please let us know, we'll be sure to give you a shout out! Curie aims to pay out 60% funds raised to curators, 30% to reviewers and 10% for operational expenses.
Currently, SP Delegation can be done only through cli_wallet. The syntax for this would be -
delegate_vesting_shares youraccount curie "xxxxx.xxxxx VESTS" true
We'll post a reminder again once SP Delegation is easily accessible through Steemit.com!
Follow @curie's votes
If you are uncomfortable with donating your Steem Power to Curie, you can instead follow @curie's trail. This way, you get to support the curated authors but at the same time retain your curation rewards and continue to vote on other posts.
The two easiest ways are by using Streemian or Autosteem(https://autosteem.learnthis.ca/).
You can join Curie's Streemian trail here - https://streemian.com/profile/curationtrail/trailing/101
If you're tech savvy and would prefer do it yourself, feel free to follow @curie's votes using your bot. Or, you can also set up your own bot using apps like FOSSbot or Votum.
Alternatively, if you'd rather vote manually, you can follow Curie's latest votes at https://steemdb.com/@curie/votes?type=outgoing or https://streemian.com/guild/curie
Donate
At the beginning, Curie relied on donations for funding. However, as it became acceptable to use the author reward pool for funding projects, the need for donations disappeared. Since then, the community sentiment has changed once again, so we do not raise funding from the reward pool anymore. Your donations are welcome!
A big thanks to Steemians who have donated to Curie in the past, several months ago - nextgencrypto, val, beerbloke, knozaki2015, hanshotfirst, shaka, jacor, razvanelulmarin, greenwayoflife, jasonstaggers, ionescur, mariandavp, mibenkito, ballinconscious, fairytalelife, ericvancewalton.
Vote for witness @curie
You can vote for backup witness @curie by visiting the Witnesses page and voting for @curie. Look for @curie at #48 right at the bottom!
Offer feedback and suggestions
Curie is always looking for feedback and suggestions - indeed our entire evolution has been dictated by the community and especially its curators. Your feedback will be greatly appreciated!
If you want to support high quality material from undiscovered content creators, delegating some SP to @curie is a great way to do this. It runs a high-tech, decentralized model through Streemian with an extremely lean budget that still includes a solid review of each post.
All members of the community (especially curators who are not established yet themselves) have an opportunity to curate posts with Curie and earn referral fees.
I can't say enough about what a great job @liberosist @kevinwong and others are doing with Curie. However large or small your account is, I hope others will join me in delegating some SP to Curie. It makes Steemit better.
It is nice to see projects like this happening on steemit. These sorts of things really help to attract professional bloggers, publications (like ours), and quality content generators. We know it takes time to build a following on any platform, but seeing more direct payouts quickly for generating content really helps when the one generating the content has rapid incentives to build quality content for the platform. Your dedication to helping the platform grow is sincerely appreciated.
I think what turns new authors off more than no payouts are basically no comments or views. Granted, Curie can't help directly with that, but by giving it some votes, it gives it more visibility on the Trending and Hot pages. Often, other whales find it and vote for it. So it definitely helps in discovering and giving new authors some exposure.
We definitely agree. Up voting things without reading them does create a problem when you are trying to gain a foothold or build an audience. When an author worked really hard to generate good content and nobody reads it can really sour a good contributor's feeling towards the platform. Providing exposure does really help though since it begs the question: "Why is this content trending?". We have heard some folks talking about how authors do not have a long term incentive to contribute because after a month there are no more payouts and the content basically expires. With no ability to slap ads on there to continue to generate money and comments being closed it effectively cuts off the discussion when people find good content later. Would you agree with that assessment?
Steemit is not designed to be a platform for long term revenue generation. Here, content cycles every day or two and payouts are now every 7 days. That said, maybe there'll be a solution for long term content in the future - who knows? For now, you can get advertising deals yourself - there's nothing stopping you from adding ads to your own post.
Very true, it just seems like the short term focus is limiting to bloggers and content contributors who are in it for the long haul and longer term revenue generation. Do you feel like that limits the effectiveness of the platform to a broad audience of good content generators? It also seems like hosting a blog here can be an ineffective strategy since after a month since there is no incentive to share good content. Do you feel like that negates the viral nature of social media in respect to this platform?
I don't think it limits reaching a broad audience. It's pretty clear that long form, long term blogging is a niche activity today, while much of the internet has moved to micro-blogging, sharing etc. I'm not sure what you mean about not hosting a blog after a month. You can keep creating... Some of the earliest bloggers have been around for nearly a year now.
Just trying to get a better understanding of the platform and how other users felt about social media strategy here. We really appreciate your insight and thoughts on the platform.
Nice... ! I have followed @curie trail on streemian. :)
Thanks!
Will curie still function after hardfork18? Join me let's read this post!
Yes, of course!
Feel free to get in touch with my directly on Steemit.chat if you need help with voting bots, SP delegation etc. Cheers!