Announcing development of Curie's frontend

As already briefly announced in #curie, in the early months of 2017, we intend to commission development of an automated frontend. We'll make it as complete as our budget would allow, but to begin with we are looking at a simple submission system that will automatically check posts for guidelines and forward them to voters. Accounting has become a daunting task for our team, and this process will now be further automated by this frontend.

For curators in #curie this will mean fewer guidelines, higher submission limits, and a drastic reduction in the minimum elapsed time down from 6 hours to maybe a couple of hours. We would love to hear feedback and suggestions from curators in #curie!

We also intend to feature curated posts and authors, publishing statistics and lists on the frontend. Additionally, Daily Curie posts may continue on Steemit, but with payout declined, as long as there's demand for it. Ultimately, we hope to use the @curie account only for announcements and communication.

Do note that the Curie frontend would be more about public submissions and verification - we'd still need the Curation Guilds feature as proposed by Steemit Inc.

The code for this frontend will be open sourced available for all curation guilds on the Steem network.

The plan

With channel #curie on Steemit.chat growing in activity, it's been getting difficult to keep track of submissions. Please note that we do not vote on everything submitted on that channel. Rather, we will usually check the many suggested posts against a certain guideline. Posts are suggested by #curie finders. After a post proved to have met the guideline, one of @curie voters will vote on said post. Subsequently, our manual process keeps track of the related #curie finder's fees and @curie voter's fees in a database - we're using a .csv spreadsheet at the moment.

So in this case, #curie finder is a community curator, and @curie voter is a guild member - the one that selectively votes for what is curated by the #curie community.

The goal here is to automate both guideline-checking and accounting.

What we have in mind

If anyone knows how to achieve the above by utlizing the channel that we already have #curie or https://steemit.chat/channel/curie, perhaps with some script - that will be great.

If not, we are thinking of a simple website. Here's what it should feature:-

a. Curator submission page.

• Curators submit posts with two text fields - Steemit ID and Steemit.com link.
• Steemit ID is checked against submission limit per day. Most curators have a fixed limit, but select top curators have specific limits. E.g. If the Steemit ID is @fubar-bdhr, the limit is greater. Everyday at 1200 UTC the limit resets.

b. Steemit.com link is checked for -

• No duplicate submissions
• Posts must be between X hours and Y hours old.
• The post's author's rep must be less than R.
• Post must have generated less than $S at the time of submission.
• Author must not have been voted by Curie in the last Z hours.
• If the link fails, the curator should be notified of which guideline(s) they are failing. (Or in version 1, just a blanket doesn't meet guidelines will do)
• If the link passes the guidelines, the posts are passed on to the voters' page.

c. Voters can log in with specific username and password. (No user management required)

• Voters can either accept or reject a submission.

d. Accounting -

• If the voter accepts a submission, the curator who submitted the link will get a FF Steem fee. (If the voter rejects the submission, curator does not get a fee)
• The voter will get a VF Steem fee irrespective of whether they accept or reject.
• At the end of each day (or whatever), a script will be generated to pay both voters and curators. (We already use a Piston script - it should be a fairly simple matter). As well as a CSV for records. (This can be version 2)

e. Apart from that, a couple of additional pages -

• Of course, mandatory FAQ / Introductory pages
• Live feed of Curie's curation. Basically just outgoing votes from @curie as here https://steemdb.com/@curie/votes
• A filtered list of posts meeting the guidelines stated above linking to Steemit.com (jesta had made this earlier though our guidelines have long since changed. He said it was pretty straightforward https://steemdb.com/comment/curie )

We would like to thank @ontofractal for helping us narrow down on this spec. This is the version 1 spec, we have other features in mind for the future.

Contact us

Of course, what we've suggested here is just based on our limited knowledge. Any improvement or simpler ideas for execution would be appreciated. Name-your-price - just drop us a message here. Similarly, you may contact @kevinwong or @liberosist, on https://steemit.chat.

Please re-steem this if possible. Thanks for your time!

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