Carl, Thank you for the explanation. I appreciate the guidance, the information, and the opinion. I'm reminded of Charles Dickens, and how he wrote his books: episodic and relatively short coming out each week in the paper. Perhaps steemit should be approached similarly and produce serial style. I'm not the biggest fan of reading things like that, but perhaps it lends itself better for this platform.
Thanks for the markdown editor link. I'll be sure to use it in the future. I appreciate your attention to detail and gleaning from my posts needs and helpful guidance.
I'll celebrate this explosive anomaly and hope that through hard work and continuing the "writing slog" I'll some day see this as a regular occurance through excellence and effort.
Is the @curie theory that by giving a large "taste" of potential it will encourage creators to continue their hard work? LIke the feeling you get when you publish your first book on Amazon and you're inspired to keep writing? Thank you!
RE your last question, yes, that, but also just to give you a literal stake in the platform. You could of course choose to cash out your earnings from this post pay out and take them off platform, but you could also convert the post earnings to Steem and "power up" to give you more steem power (stake) with which to use the platform. As the Steem network experiences more use, the lowest stake accounts are frozen out of using the network because of bandwidth shortages. This is already happening now in periods of peak use - users with less than 40 SP are often experiencing negative bandwidth as higher stake users are prioritized when use of the network exceeds bandwidth. Curie gives quality authors (should they choose to power up) the stake necessary to continue using the platform.
Cheers - Carl