• In spirit of Curie's transparency, we wish to use this weekly section as an ongoing development blog on our project to communicate our progress on top of the many casual exchanges happening in channel #curie.
• For those new to Curie, please follow @curie, and join us in #curie on Steemit.chat.
• Follow @curie's votes to support the authors. Please consider following our trail and voting for curated authors. If you are a Streemian user, @curie is an available trail to follow.
• Remember to follow and interact with authors that you love going through The Daily Curie.

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Latest Update

• Curie's support for International posts is currently underway for select curators in Italy, Brazil, Nigeria, and Malaysia.

• Open, public post submissions are now closed. We are currently operating via Curator Recommendations - please refer to the section below.

• Curie will be one year old this weekend. Prepare for some stats!

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Previous Update

Adding More Support for International Posts

Curie was the first curation project that helped support great posts in some international and non-English areas, including Korean and Spanish, which have become large segments on Steemit. Today, there are many growing communities in international growth areas, some of them posting in languages other than English. To recognize and support good content in these areas, Curie will allocate a portion of its votes again on some regional posts (in English and in other languages). In each of these areas, we will rely on trained curators who have posted appropriate guidelines for their communities, have a trusted system in place, and will be supervised by Tom @donkeypong.

Italian curators: @thenightflier and @bhuz
Brazilian curators: @maxjoy and @dudutaulois
Nigerian curators: @destinysaid @gbenga @ehiboss @ogoowinner @fisteganos
Malaysian curators: @bitrocker2020 and @awesomianist

This curation will be independent of Curie's general curation works, which will continue as usual with no changes.

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Curator Recommendations

With public submissions by new curators now closed, we have a new system for onboarding new curators. Top curators will now be able to mentor and recommend new curators. If the new curators performs well, the recommendor will receive a Recommendation Fee. Some guidelines for this program -

• Only curators with CS >5 and AR >85 (i.e. the top tier) will be able to recommend new curators.
• If the new curator can maintain a CS => 1 for 4 weeks, the recommender will receive a 100 Steem reward for each curator recommended.
• If the new curator can become a top curator, maintaining CS >5 and AR >85 for 4 weeks, the recommender will receive a 500 Steem recommendation fee.
• Poor recommendations will lead to disqualification for the recommender. If even one new curator fails to maintain CS => 0.25 within the first 4 weeks, the recommender will not be able to recommend new curators.
• There's a limit of 3 new curator recommendations per week, all of whom will start off with 2 submissions per week.
• The new curator recommended must be a bonafide and engaged member of the Steem community. (I.e. no sockpuppets etc.)
• Top curators may develop their own process for selection and mentoring, and can use #curie to solicit applications for curators. Once you'd like to recommend someone please post in #curie.

We hope this will allow Curie to continue offering a voice to promising new curators, as well offer current top curators incentive to mentor new curators.

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Weekly Statistics

Over the last week, Curie curated a total of 122 posts at an average of 17 posts per day. This is a decrease from previous weeks as it is our first week operating without open submissions, due to a huge influx of spam submissions. Results of our recent embargo on public submissions: global approval rate is up to 62%, up from 20%-25% two weeks ago. Curie will be sustainable long term at 75% so that’s our target.

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Authors

The top authors recommended by our curators this week are:-

@cake-lady-jen
@jayjayjeffery
@laniakea1
@prowebwriter

Once again, a completely fresh list of promising authors, with no repeats from previous weeks!

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Curators

The Top Curators list will dynamically change every other week depending on performance. Anybody will be able to rise up the ranks with consistent, quality curation. Inconsistent, low-quality curation will result in dropping out of Top curators list(or regular curation, if under-performance continues).

This week, we have upvoted 122 posts submitted by curators in http://curiesteem.com, with 1,220 STEEM to be paid out to curators.

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Curation Leaderboard

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Note: All author rewards from this post will be used to fund Curie.
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