RE: Curie's 1st Year Update (with Additional International Support Announcement)
Great stuff @curie. I have a question regarding your service and some things that I've observed. Currently the main benefit for authors who get 'curied' are pretty much monetary. A large majority of articles don't see much in the way of eyeballs actually reading the article unless the article happens to hit the trending pages.
The monetary side of @curie is a fantastic way to support authors however most of these excellent authors likely also want to find new and consistent readers. Curie does very little really to bring new readers to each of its curated articles, it's mostly a financial reward. These authors made the cut because of their quality content, it would seem that the long term benefit most authors would prefer is to get readers.
Do you have any ideas or plans to increase actual readers vs just increase the monetary value via automated upvotes?
Firstly, the value of the payout directly influences where the post appears on the Trending and Hot list. Indeed, the only way for a post to get eyeballs is increasing the payout. So, it's a very direct way to get a lot of new readers.
Secondly, Curie resteems the exceptional posts. That automatically gets it exposure to the 4,000 followers Curie has.
Apart from that, if you have any suggestions, please let Curie know.
Finally, this is a very small project currently and only has a very specific niche it functions in with no intention to grow. The project has been gradually downscaling for the last 6 months.