Why CURIE "needs" to be your choice for Witness /My thoughts/💭

This will be another one of my "ramble on" posts about topics i feel deeply about.
Usually i start my posts with some kind of a silly joke but ill be keeping it "relatively" serious this time. 😀

Few weeks ago there was a initiative by Curie that encouraged Steemians to write about how Curie affected their lives.
Ill incorporate a bit of that into this post, but most of all i want to emphasize how much indeed Curie has done, not only for those that were rewarded with that pretty financial boost, but rather for the platform as a whole.

MY SHORT STORY

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I wrote shortly about what Curie meant to me in my "2 month Steemit anniversary" couple weeks ago, and the role it played in keeping me here on Steem, showing me why i should give this platform a legit shot.

I arrived on Steemit accidentally by browsing through crypto-news and crypto-related sites and in the beggining i was simply uploading my old content i used as promotion for the band i was a part of. I didnt have any experience or broader knowledge of how the blockchain worked, how to network, how to write online content, and i didnt really own almost any equipment which i could use to create what i wanted. No skills to speak of, in audio editing or video making. (not that i have now, but you know what i mean😋)

But something kept me here. My first post i wrote was an introduction of sorts, sloppily written, with a sort of music video, of "Sia: Chandelier" which people seemed to really like from the comments and the upvotes i got.
Curie community upvote was on it which i didn't realize until long after...

That small upvote, i think the total was around 20-30$, kept me around and motivated me to at least keep on writing and uploading more, to start networking as much as i could, since i didnt have the tools to make something of my own.
"Maybe then another big upvote will come, i thought to myself".

I was extremely lucky to get support from a larger account early on, which allowed me to buy the first piece of equipment i needed.
First song i recorded with my new mic, for #openmic got a Curie. The audio was recorded badly in terrible lighting (now that i look at it), with clipping all over the track, no work done to make it sound or look better. Id say its actually quite scary to listen to it with your headphones on. 😏
With time i tried to improve and a few more Curies came my way that sustained me and helped me grow.
Curie was the incubator, training wheels of sorts for me, and when i outgrew those training wheels i was able to move forward on my own.

And thats the core. Curie isnt here for a creator to depend on it throughout his time on the Steem blockchain.
Its here to get you on your way and pick you up when you fall down, when you have a spill of bad luck but continue creating quality content.

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On to a bit of a explanation..

WHATS THIS CURIE YOU SPEAK OF?

Curie is a community project that rewards undervalued, high quality creators with high upvotes, attempting to give them exposure.
That is the simplest, most straight forward explanation i can think of.

The upvote itself is made up of the SP from the @curie account and of those that support the project by following the curie curation trail. Follow by clicking here
The project is supported with the SP of some large accounts like @meerkat and @hendrikdegrote whom you will see at the top of your payout list above the curie upvote itself.
This is somewhat of a source of confusion for new Steemit users since the upvote recipient is most likely to first notice those topping the list.
The system itself works in a very polished way.

Curie curators, _that have proven themselves as being able to effectively recognize generally high quality posts in the #curationlinks room of the Curie discord channel (or have proven themselves through their solo work) search the "new pages" of Steemit in search of quality posts manually, or with the use of various tools (Example: Steemlookup)

They submit those posts through Streemian after which a review process starts.

The review process is lead by reviewers, of which some have been with the project from the start and some are those that have proven themselves as being Curie curators of the highest caliber, with consistently high approval ratings.

I have been working as a curator for almost 2 months now (admittedly im not the greatest one. 😅) , lately more focused on growing my blog, but in that time i have noticed the following effect Curie has on the platform:

By supporting new quality creators Curie encourages them to remain on the platform and create value which in turn increases the overall worth of the platform itself.

By supporting struggling creators, Curie gives them a boost in visibility that often reinvigorates their blogs by raising attention, attracting support from all sides.

Curie helps mold the structure of content on the Steem blockchain in a positive way by pushing towards "exceptional" rather then the "average" or "low effort". Indirectly fighting the downfalls of the Stake based voting system and the hijacking of the trending page by various bot abusers and self voters. The primary focus has always been on quality... And thats something i consider to be the most praise worthy of all things, especially in a system where rewarding quality isnt incentivized enough.

Yes there are others that do a amazing job that deserve mountains of praise as well, like @ocd, whaleshares, the many solo manual curators and other bigger and smaller communities, but in my opinion Curie has always been a leader in this area.

Which is why whenever i vote for a witness i ask myself:
"what do they contribute towards and would we even notice them gone?" The answers to those questions i leave to you.

Since this is somewhat of a promotion post, i would like to call upon anyone that has a fondness for Curie to consider delegating to the @curie account and consider voting for Curie as witness.

You can delegate on the following links:
50SP 100SP
250SP 500SP
1000SP 5000SP

Little bit of background

Curie is one of the oldest projects on the steem blockchain, announced in August 2016 as an attempt to focus whale power for a good cause.
The “Project Curie” team started with: Tom (donkeypong), The Alien (the-alien), liberosist, Etherpunk (kevinwong), Anwen Baumeister (anwenbaumeister), infovore, gavvet, steemship, plus contributors including Cryptogee, Andrew Levine (andrarchy), piedpiper, nanzo-scoop, rok Sivante (rok-sivante), nextgencrypto and others.
i removed the "@" because of Gina, but you can easily check out their accounts by adding @ in front of the names in the brackets

According to Steemworld stats @curie has given out 104720 votes Totalling to more then 2 300 000$ in post payouts

To the guys in the #curatorlounge: "keep up the good work, and selfies are photos too!"📷😊

This post is solely based on my own opinions and the bots have been payed for from my own post rewards.

See you around and

🌟Keep on Steeming!🌟

Some of my music videos:

Curie is a community witness and a community curation project with the main goal of discovering unrewarded, exceptional content. Curie curators work hard to fulfill those goals every day.
Please consider voting @curie for witness.
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