This post makes a really great point. As amazing as it is to get curied, it can lead to a false sense of hope that quickly fades when your following posts payouts go back to basically nothing. I have wondered myself if there were ways to help remedy this issue. In the short time that I have acted as a curator, I have tried to purchase @steembasicincome shares for some of the people I have curied or even some people who were new and not quite putting out curiable content yet, just to try and keep them involved and make sure they are getting something even when I can't upvote them. However, for the most part, I feel that after many people are curied they typically just go back to being all on their own.

Another great point you made was with regard to people seeing a post with a big curie upvote and thinking "Well, they have enough. I don't need to upvote/follow them." One of the guidelines for submitting posts to @curie is to give preference to people who are underappreciated and/or consistently recieve low payouts relative to the quality of their work. I have seen many times where people regularly produce amazing content and make nothing other than from the occasional curie vote they recieve.

So if you see a curied article, instead of thinking, "That person has enough of a payot." Maybe try and think, "Wow, that person's must not be making much for their great content. Maybe I should upvote or follow them." Surely, you can't upvote and follow everyone, but there is certain to be an author or two making something you really enjoy that you might be able to show some attention to.

Personally, I also feel like @helpie is an amazing group and has probably played just as much of a part in my sticking around as @curie has. Although @helpie doesn't provide that super big upvote that gets you riding high, they offer education, support, community and even regularly upvote their members enough that they don't feel like they have been abandoned by the greater steemit community. I feel like many of the things that they provide newer members are precisely the things that @curie doesn't and that the two groups are a great compliment for new people who produce great content.