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RE: Application for mentorship to become a @curie curator
- Makes it more difficult for a good post to go trending because the work of all individual curators gets diminished.
- Makes people discover good posts not by reading 'new' or 'hot' but by reading the curie only and profit afterwards
- Is promoting posts which do not have mistakes/ formatting errors in them yet the content is good (I don't care about errors)
- Makes things stale and not dynamic
On the contrary, Curie empowers curators to find an undiscovered post and give it the attention it deserves. Otherwise, Curie is a very small project, and the overall votes take less than 5% of the reward pool. Less than individual whales, and less than stuff like randowhale. So, it barely affects your curation.
Also, on the contrary, it encourages people to read new and hot, as they might good posts that are a) worthy of being submitted to Curie; and b) frontrun Curie to cash in the curation rewards. Voting on a post after Curie has voted is absolutely unprofitable - that's how Steemit's curation rewards algo works. You'd want to vote before.
That's not true either. Sure, good formatting is nice; but we have often voted on posts with poor English / dodgy formatting even because the content was so good. Literally thousands of such posts have been voted by Curie.
Curie has over 700 curators since Streemian Guilds opened in February, and a further 500 before that. Instead of one or two whales voting everything, we have hundreds of curators sharing their voices. That's like the exact definition of dynamic.
I feel you have totally misunderstood how Curie works. Either way, to each their own. It's a free market.
I guess I got it wrong then. Thanks for explaining! :)
Holy cow! That's a crazy number of curators! Are they all active? Who actually parses through all those options?
However you guys are making it work, I think your doing a great job - it's awesome to see new users catapulted to trending. I wasn't curied, but I had a similar single large post, and it was a major motivator early on.
One interesting Curie related phenomenon - I was going through the last couple of weeks posts and checking out the authors to see where they stood after payout. Sadly, at least a couple never even stuck around the platform long enough to collect - they just have a couple of hundred dollars sitting unclaimed in an abandoned account. Tried to find them on steemit chat and discord, but no luck :(
Edit: @zenmotherfucker is the main one I was thinking about - but I can't figure out how to contact him - not on for 20 days - and like 200$+ waiting for him.