Are you able to get right into it again.. ie.. once in.. your there for life?
Kinda, You've just got to make sure to submit, and have accepted, a post every few months to not be kicked as a curator. I've maintained the bare minimum submissions while I've been busy with other things. Some people submit 10-20 posts/week. At my hight I was submitting around 16/week with a 90% success rate. But it was very difficult work. I'd say easy 20-30 hours a week. You have to go through extremely exhaustive plagiarism checks, checking for reposts, verifying the author as genuinely engaged with community etc. A lot of people don't realise that (especially during the bull market) there are actually people out there specifically targeting curie with high quality plagiarized content, and they go to extremes to hide it. I once got caught out by someone who had replaced the font on random letters throughout the text. This stopped a Google plagiarism check from working. The reviewer spotted it and the post got rejected. Seriously crafty rip off artists on steem!
It's a job basically, which is why they pay a steem finders fee to curators. I'd say around a thousand or two of my SP is earned from curie curating
Hmm, is it like that now? The stringent checking. Then a post could gain a substantial reward going over $100, I did remember those times.
I keep hearing people saying it's too hard for what is gained. Thanks for the insight.
It's just the same now on quality control. They work kind of like a 'sales team' in that there are benefits to having high acceptance rates with lots of posts submitted. If you don't do the stringent checks, your acceptance/rejection ratio is going to go down and when it gets to a certain low level you're kicked as a curator. Lol, it's not easy... but the rules and guidelines ensure that only the best stay and it makes it all more streamlined to be able to actually reward the very high quality posts without letting any of the scammers through.
As I might have mentioned in the past I suffer from a chronic illness so I had to stop being a 'power curator'. I was getting serious burn out and in fact getting more ill from pushing myself too hard. If I ever figure how to heal this fckn gut condition which had limited me for 6 years, I'll probably go back to curie curating every week. It was kind of exciting during the bull run as I specialise in creative writing (what I got my degree in) and I found some very high level short story writers and poets on here. I'm still proud that I was the first curie curator who consistently got poetry accepted by curie. But as it's normally such a short form of writing, I had to show in my comment to the reviewers how it was exceptional poetry; adherence to form, sophistication of imagery and poetic techniques such as assonance, rhyme and metre etc. Lol, it was like being back at uni sometimes 😆