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RE: My Thoughts About Curie and Its Criticisms
Curie is undoubtedly an essential project, especially at this early stage in the platforms development. It has by and large been responsible for the dramatic shift in reward allocation (you can see how the number of dolphins 3000 SP) has been growing steadily over the past 6 months. That growth is almost entirely attributable to the hard work of the people involved in Curie. The community don't owe them anything however if they realized just how much time, and effort people put in to allow for the rewards to be more evenly distributed and just how many people are involved. They would likely be overwhelmingly gracious IMO.
It's hard to measure whether if it has added to the network or made it worse (we don't exactly stick to curating really good quality posts, going more for stuff that can be understood and looks like it's taken time to get produced. Sometimes we even vote on not-very-stellar posts just because the account has been consistent with their persistence). But still, I think it's worth it. Sure the "max" rewards for posts have declined in line with Curie's allocation, so instead of a few really high paying posts, it has been diluted to be spread to more than a few more accounts.
Well those accounts that are gaining steem are also voting on content they think is good, so curies work does not end just with distribution of steem. There is a big network effect that results in a much wider dispersal of value in the site that comes from the content creators that Curie has supported. I think when you look at it from that perspective that Curie has only added to the network.