Your CS shouldn't be 0 if a post was approved.

As for a reset, I wouldn't count on it. Curie is closing down public submissions and has been in downscaling mode for the last few months. Personally, I feel Curie has accomplished everything it set out to a year ago, and much, much more. I don't think there's a pressing need for Curie any more.

About doodles and such, those can be a lot of fun, unique and creative, and often far more engaging than a wall of text. Also, perhaps you should try doodling, it's a real skill to produce a quality doodle. There are also times when persistent authors are voted on for a body of undiscovered work, in addition to the post itself. Finally, effort doesn't matter one bit, what matters is the final product. Bob Dylan may have come up with a masterpiece of a song within 5 minutes, doesn't make it worse than something a mediocre musician who has been labouring for months on one. Similarly, I see a bunch of people here ranting for thousands of words in what amounts to basically drivel. It may have taken them several hours to come up with it, but no one's going to read it. This is a free market for popular content, not a job where people are paid by the hour.

You can look through the type of posts resteemed by Curie, it is always engaging content. If you don't agree with this type of curation, I'd encourage you to start your own curation guild which focuses on whatever you would like to see voted on.