Curie's mission has always been to reward and retain new authors on Steemit. But this update is entirely for curators. The #curie channel on Steemit.chat has been a thriving community since its inception. Home to nearly 800 users, the #curie curator community had grown exponentially, submitting hundreds of posts every day. Our moderators and operators struggled to keep up with the volume and it became clear this was not a scalable solution for running a community project. Enter Streemian's new Guild feature, which finally realizes Curie's vision on bringing curation to the community.
Some of Curie's stats so far
- Current operation lifetime: ~5.5 months
- Operation downtime: 2 days
- Posts upvoted: 13,500+ posts
- SBDs generated for authors: ~400,000 SBDs
- Authors rewarded: 3,500+ authors
- Curators paid: 350+ curators
A complete solution on Streemian (Functional WIP)
In partnership with Streemian, we are developing a complete solution for curation guilds. Currently, Curie is testing the system, but soon anyone will also be able to use Streemian as a base for their own curation guilds. Using Curie's generic workflow model, it is comprehensively parameterized and configurable. In our case, we have made Curie an open-membership type curation guild with specific guidelines. But Streemian's system is malleable to all types of curation guilds.
This would mean that anyone with a Steemit account will be able to suggest posts on Curie's frontend, and receive a finder’s fee if the submission is approved.
On the flipside, here are the features that will be available for any guild owners:-
- A page that shows recent votes by guild and some statistics.
- Membership management (Open / Invite-Only / Limitation-Settings / etc)
- Proposal box (For users to drop links to recommend posts)
- Configurable filter for submitted posts (Age / Rep / Payout / Posting Frequency / etc)
- Administrative settings (Profile / Global-Settings / Membership management / Filter / etc)
- Reviewing system (Approve / Disapprove / Comment)
- Accounting system
- Soon to be configurable curation score system (Essentially a level-up / level-down system to promote consistent, quality curators)
- Curation leaderboard (pending)
- Many other features are in the pipeline
Curators Score (new implementation - important!)
With Streemian’s Curie app, all curation will be unified. The general guidelines will be the same for everyone. However, to keep the submissions streamlined and spamming in check, we have evolved the tiered system from #curie. The Top 12 curators every week will have no submission limits, and able to submit posts 45 minutes after creation. The Top 12 curators will shuffle every week based on their performance the previous week. Performance will be dictated by Curators Score.
Curators Score is number of posts approved multiplied by approval rate. Approval rate is the percentage of total submissions made by each curator which are approved. We are emphasising quality over quantity, while also encouraging regular curation.
For example, a curator who spams the channel with 100 posts and gets only 10 approved has a Curators Score of just 1. Whereas a curator who submits just 2 good posts and has both approved will have a Curators Score of 2. A curator who submits 10 posts and has 8 accepted has a Score of 6.4. So, to win Curie, submit high quality posts regularly but discriminately. We’ll continue listening to feedback from curators to adjust this process including some of the numbers / thresholds.
We’ll have monthly bonuses for curators who consistently significantly outperform other curators over the month. Conversely, curators with exceptionally poor Curators Score will be disqualified and suspended from submitting posts.
We hope this will lead to a decentralised and meritocratic environment where the best curators on Steemit receive the maximum opportunity.
The Finder’s Fee will continue to be 8 Steem per approved post, subject to change with our budget.
Curie's Submission Guidelines
New and verified authors only, who have been persistent without much success. Brand new authors who have one or two posts without verification do not qualify. General guideline for "new author" would be 62 Reputation and under. The lower the Rep, the more likely they are to be voted. (Steem Guild will look out for posts by more established authors)
Posts must be more than 150 minutes old (I.e. 3 hours ago on Steemit), but less than 20 hours, with less than $1 pending payout.
Authors must not have earned more than $10 from a single post in the last 2 days. I.e. don't submit a post if the author has earned more than $10 on a post marked "yesterday" or "X hours ago" - has to be "2 days ago" or more.
Only original content. Articles, art, poetry, videos, recipes, etc. that appear first on Steemit. Please make sure sources are linked properly and check for plagiarism before posting here.
No Steemit-related, photography, religious, introduceyourself or political posts.
Maximum 5 submissions per day.
English posts only. Steem Guild will look out for other languages.
Using Streemian's Guild submission platform
Curie's submission platform is available at https://streemian.com/guild/curie. It is also accessible by typing in Curiesteem.com.
To start submitting posts, all you need to register on Streemian and link your Steem account. You need not verify your Steem account, though that maybe required for some of Streemian's other services. Do note Finder's fees will be paid into this Steem account.
Once registered, click on "Propose Post", paste in the URL, and voilà!
Last but not least, we would like to heartily thank @xeroc and @chainsquad for their incredible work and support. We hope to see many other curation guilds operating on Streemian or similar services, building upon the thriving curation community on Steemit.
Some screenshots
Join us in #curie on Steemit.chat, vote for @curie as witness and follow us @curie!
Curie's frontend is available at http://curiesteem.com
Finally, Curie can become a community project! Thanks to @liberosist for leading this effort, to the curators/reviewers who have worked so hard for months on this project, to @kevinwong for all of your leadership, to the accountholders who have leant your power to reward great content creators, to everyone else who has supported us, and of course to @xeroc for bringing us a front-end with Streemian that can empower the whole community to participate.
And thanks to @donkeypong for piercing through the madness. :)
(Not to mention, initiating it all half a year ago)
https://steemit.com/story/@the-alien/the-time-traveler-s-guide-to-fake-news#@donkeypong/re-noganoo-re-donkeypong-re-the-alien-the-time-traveler-s-guide-to-fake-news-20170201t175408547z
Alternatively, look at it as the number approved squared divided by the number submitted, which IM(H)O is a lot easier to parse:
(approved)^2/submittedThanks for the feedback. Yes, that's how the calculation is done internally. However, it is easier to explain the concept of approval rate if broken up separately. We are seeing a lot of curators still submitting indiscriminately - it's important that curators understand that quality and approval rate is top priority.
The actual formula used is -
(Number of posts approved)^2 / (Number of posts submitted - number of posts closed)
[Sometimes we "close" posts without either approving or disapproving if they largely meet the guidelines, but we can't vote on. E.g. posts that had less than $1 pending payout with the curator submitted, but went over by the time it was reviewed. These submissions shouldn't be penalized even if we don't vote on them]
Makes sense. Yeah, that does seem like a better way to explain it. I just found myself thinking "wouldn't squared this divided by something else make more sense.... Oh. Right." :)
Nice! Well done curie team! Awesome work and at first glance looks like a very strong solution for future growth of the curation network / impact.
This is awesome. You are really pushing the Steem blockchain forward by innovating in the curation space, and I personally appreciate the hell out of it. Resteemed!
UP voted! You have obviously done good work for the community based on the stats you present.
I have a question on the Curators Score. The post states:
But then the post says
I am thinking the approval rate for this case is 80% and then 8 times 80% should yield a score of 6.4 rather than 8.
I wonder if the number stated in the post is in error, or if my understanding is in error! :-) In any case, I wish you continued success for your project!
You are right! Will get that corrected.
Thanks for letting me know! I like to follow along with the math in some of the tech posts on here; it really helps me understand the concepts when I do the math myself. Best wishes!
As I've explored the 'Art' tag on Steemit, I've been impressed by the level of support Curie gives to artists.
Great collaboration! Keep up the great work guys :)
This is HUGE, thank you so very much for the great updates and this new phase of the famous CURIE PROJECT! AWESOME!!! All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
Of course, I would be glad to join. but new in steemit what I can to join.
follow me and upvote @fahmiauliasfr. Thank you
yes, i like it.
wish you all the best.
Good job @curie
Great report, thank so much @curie Follow
:) always wanted to join the Curie Curator Team
Try it out when we open it in a few days - just gotta say that the guidelines aren't exactly the simplest things in the world, but i think it'll be alright after a few days internalizing it
Will give it a go! I have been auto-voting Curie for a long time now! It's one the only few projects I feel i should be supporting. You were the one to introduce me to Curie, still remember getting featured! Curie can only bring good to the Steemit Community, it's time to join in the fun
Nice work! I really love how this is evolving.
Ps. This is the first post I've bookmarked on Busy
Oh i've gotta start using busy then! Just prefer an in-built solution rather than browser bookmarks..
trevligt och bra gjort thanks
Great job by curie team . I have already joined Streemian.
awesome job curie team!
oh how i foresaw this coming and posted about this days ago. exciting! but understanding needed
The policies mentioned in this post sounds not bad. There may be a hole that an author posts once 3 days or so can be accepted repeatedly.
Hi @curie, I just stopped back to let you know your post was one of my favourite reads yesterday and I included it in my Steemit Ramble. You can read what I wrote about your post here.
Didn't know this existed! Looks interesting and very useful for the community!
This article should be a must-read for all new curators starting their trail channel. It is also good to know the tools available before scaling up becomes pressing. Thanks.