Another stellar post Asher!
A bit of clarification on the Curie guidelines, and the posts that get Curie votes when above 52 Rep:
Curie has "sub-community curators" , you can find listed in the weekly update HERE. The list of curators here can choose any material from their community for a "mini-curie". So you will see posts from people in the high 50's getting around a $20 curie upvote because their post falls within the realm of these community curators.
For those of us curating by the above listed guidelines, we do not nominate posts outside of the 27-52 range. It's too risky, as our weekly Curation Score depends on us getting posts approved more often than rejected.
I know in the past Curie attempted to create a second level curation for higher reputation posters, but I was not here during that time, so I don't know what happened, but ultimately, the sub-communities seem to be the solution that was come up with for now.
I advise anyone who has an interest in manual curation to read and try out Carl's excellent SQL queries mentioned above. They are great, and with very little learning, you can modify the queries to suit your particular interests. Carl is a great dude, and if you have questions about the queries he is pretty available to help. He's helped me a ton!
Keep working toward those better days. If we are working together, we will get there!
Thanks for the clarifications Mike, I should probably edit my post with these.
One thing which I do understand why It's in place, but I think does reduce the amount of content worthy of some sort of vote is:
And on speaking to bitrocker this morning, he told me that the weekly total was around 200 authors. Honestly, I think it should be 5x that many. And comments of improvement issued post vote.
I sound like a slave driver :)
Thanks again!