I Am Now A Curie Curator Here on SteemIt!

Curie logo borrowed from https://streemian.com/guild/curie
In my first days here on SteemIt (now nearly a month ago), I discovered some videos from @jerrybanfield and @joeparys. Those videos were extremely helpful in my learning process. One thing they both casually mentioned in one of their videos was @curie. The mentions were random as they spotted them listed in their upvotes list, or being referred to elsewhere while they were looking at their computer monitors and recording their videos.

With as much as I learned from their videos, I found myself very curious about what @curie was. I started reading and investigating, finding as much information about them as I could. Then I went and joined their guild at https://streemian.com/guild/curie ... or so I thought.

Once I joined that site, I found a post by @krishnendukj and another by @katrina-ariel that I thought would be great to propose to Curie. I headed over and tried to propose them. I was surprised when all I got was an error message when I tried them both. This led me to head on over to the Curie channel on the SteemIt.chat site to see if someone could tell me what I was doing wrong. Luckily, there are other people out there on my same sleep schedule. It was about 2AM CT and yet I had a response within twenty minutes or so.

@carlgnash explained to me that I am not a curator until I have been recommended by a Curie top curator, and I have to be accepted before being able to propose any posts for curation. He then directed me to his Curator Bot and explained how it all worked. Once I showed him that I might be a good curator, a process that included sharing a link on his bot page to show him what I thought was an exceptional post worth Curie curation (I went with @katrina-ariel 's post 5 Reasons Why THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Changed My Life because it included more text and a good personal story that I and many others would identify with) and then critiquing a couple of the other posts linked in the comment section so he could see what I thought about what others felt were good enough.

After that, we started talking on Discord, and for the past week and a half or so he has been mentoring me and helping me figure things out. When I was testing his process for finding good posts, I found two really good posts in about 90 minutes. These were posts from people I had never seen before; they weren't people I follow, but instead people I found who happened to post some really good stuff while I was looking.

These two posts can now be found on my page as I also resteemed them as part of the Newbie Resteem Initiative #newbieresteemday that I am also a part of.

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Since I was not yet a Curator and had to wait for Carl to become eligible again to nominate me, along with the fact that he really liked the posts as well, he proposed them for Curie Curation. They were both accepted soon after and got the upvote from Curie and their trail. If you check out the posts you will see this has a big financial side for the authors @jpgaltmiller and @magistra, with their expected payouts sitting around $115 to pay out tomorrow. The Curator that proposes an accepted post also gets a finder's fee from Curie. (10 STEEM)

Apart from the financial side of things, the reason I wanted to become a Curator is because the Curie Guild's goal is to bring attention to exceptional content here on SteemIt. They also want to draw attention to authors who are consistently adding good content to the community but who have mostly gone unrecognized with little or no payouts on their previous posts.

This is of course part of the goal for the Newbie Resteem Initiative as well, along with helping newbies figure things out in the community. My own personal goals, since I am a part of both groups, are 1) to help the Newbies coming in through the initiative, 2)occasionally be able to give them that big boost on an exceptional post when I see it by proposing their post to Curie, and 3) curating posts myself through other means to also propose to Curie.

Please keep in mind that being a new curator I am limited to just 5 submissions for now. Also, to be proposed to Curie a post has to be exceptional in some way. While that is a relative term depending on your own personal views of what makes a post exceptional, there is a standard that should be easy to spot.

With that said, please, if you read this post and come across an exceptional post while resteeming content as part of the Newbie Resteem Initiative, or just from some of the authors you follow, let me know. If it meets the Curie standard and I have submissions left, I will gladly propose it to try to help get these good authors a nice upvote boost. Please don't be offended if you what you thought was good enough doesn't make the cut. When warranted, I will do what I can to get it recognized by Curie.