Perhaps a vetting system for new curators, allowing current curators to recommend new ones? Not sure how that would work practically speaking, but seems to me something is required if Curie's going to continue, as without some churn in curators it will end up inactive.
Yes, this is exactly what is happening. Existing curators will even paid to recommend great new curators. More details in today's Curie Weekly Update, but you can find out some hints if you follow #curie. (on steemit.chat)
Ah, cool, good to know. I started following the steemit chat this morning - this week's steemit task was to get involved with Curie! Should have done it a couple of weeks ago, ah well :-P
Thanks for the reply and the ongoing updates, much appreciated