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.

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• 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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News and announcements

• The Daily Curie will return early next week. Weekly Updates will also be back to Mondays as usual from next week.

• This week, we had 144 active curators, which is a new weekly high since we moved our operations to Streemian. However, overall approval rate was an all time low at only 42%. This is because new curators are submitting posts without reading the guidelines, understanding the spirit of Curie; submitting posts by their friends or sockpuppets instead of by merit etc. A low AR means reviewers are overworked, and we run over budget.

• We urge all new curators to check out the type of posts resteemed by @curie. Submit only posts that are exceptional and meet all the guidelines. If you're not 100% sure, don't submit - disapproved submissions are costly to your Curation Score.

• There's a new tiered system for weekly submission limits. As always, curators will receive submission limits according to their performance the previous week. Now, there will be four tiers.

  CS >5, AR >85% - Unlimited submissions
  CS >1 to 5 - 15 submissions
  CS 0.2 to 1 and new curators - 1-2 submissions
  CS <0.2 - 0 submissions

  From next week, these submission limits will be followed strictly.

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Weekly Statistics

Over the last week, Project Curie curated a total of 129 posts at an average of 18 posts per day. This is flat from last week and still slightly under our operational capacity.

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Authors

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

@morodiene
@juliakponsford
@bartjan
@alliesin
@bembli
@cyniclinic
@primelink
@rhyt
@schneidor
@thebookdevourer
@winstonalden

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 124 posts submitted by curators in http://curiesteem.com, with 1,860 STEEM paid out to curators. This is flat from last week.

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Curation Leaderboard

(Curators with 2 or more submissions)

Curator	CS	AR
liberosist	31.00	100.0
alcibiades	16.00	100.0
teofilex11	13.00	100.0
littlemozart	3.47	83.3
pakiis	2.00	100.0
babel	2.00	100.0
artlong	2.00	100.0
practicemagic	1.00	100.0
hyperbolicist	0.89	66.7
hatta	0.89	66.7
sols	0.89	66.7
boosterpack	0.89	66.7
dentara	0.50	50.0
cebymaster	0.42	37.5
chairulfadlin	0.25	50.0
vj1309	0.25	50.0
sawang	0.25	50.0
stormriderstudio	0.25	50.0
batubara	0.25	50.0
alandesignart	0.25	50.0
helmilanscape	0.25	50.0
steemedia	0.25	50.0
pamodip	0.25	50.0
mutiarahitam	0.25	50.0
arismocyc	0.25	50.0
riyansyahbp	0.25	50.0
alamcraft	0.25	50.0
quoteoftheday	0.25	50.0
steemlegend	0.25	50.0
funnytale	0.25	50.0
culinaryevening	0.25	50.0
thunderblaze	0.25	50.0
bilderberg	0.25	50.0
pinkbiru21	0.25	50.0
digitalsin	0.25	50.0
rojjak	0.11	33.3
biroreklame	0.11	33.3
meysam	0.11	33.3
rawit	0.11	33.3
marlies	0.11	33.3
muklis	0.11	33.3
pentagon	0.11	33.3
voronoi	0.00	0.0
johnyboi	0.00	0.0
atinthememelord	0.00	0.0
shadeless	0.00	0.0
priscilacosta	0.00	0.0
reportsteem	0.00	0.0
nuruto21	0.00	0.0
vannour	0.00	0.0
sarcastic-me	0.00	0.0
foodgood	0.00	0.0
rozenbloom	0.00	0.0
ulfsar	0.00	0.0
hidayat20	0.00	0.0
dreamcity	0.00	0.0
theewoolf	0.00	0.0
brnofre	0.00	0.0
zaragast	0.00	0.0
anasz	0.00	0.0
jaredcwillis	0.00	0.0
vanirfan	0.00	0.0
cotidiana	0.00	0.0
tech-trends	0.00	0.0
manovara	0.00	0.0
muhammadraja	0.00	0.0
nrajesh	0.00	0.0
mgibson	0.00	0.0

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