@tipU Curation Project Update #2: Guidelines and Many Small Upgrades

Hi guys, how's it going. The @tipU curation project has almost a week now and I've got enough data to implement first changes.

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Guidelines

I totally understand that "go ahead and curate best content" is not the most precise piece of information that you can get so now, as we can review how curators are using @tipu, we can start to create more defined guidelines. Please note that this list will be evolving but for now we have:

• no higher self-curation than 50% (more about that in a moment)
• max post age - 2 days
• no curation of low-effort posts, like single mobile photo with few words, automatically crated content etc.
• there's no need to curate posts from authors that have 4 mln sp ;)

Not following those guidelines puts you in danger of loosing the curator status. Apart from that I, as many other curators, are actively reviewing the curations so really, try to find posts where the authors really put some effort into.

Score Calculations

This one is still evolving. Recently the score, that could go into negative numbers, was ditched and efficiency (ranging from 0% to x %) was introduced. It basically measures the actual curation reward compared to the standard (50% of vote value) reward. In the upcoming days efficiency or curator's available mana will be adjusted to take into account self curations ratio and votes diversity.

Self curations ratio = self curations / all curations
Votes diversity = authors curated / all curations

First proposition is to take curation mana for self curation > 25% and give for curation diversity > 75%.

Non-Linear Reward Curve, Vote Value And Voting Power

I'm sill tying to find a good balance between those 3 variables.

First thing you need to know is that small votes are punished on STEEM since HF21 - if the post doesn't get at least few $ in value. In other words throwing tons of 1% votes on posts that end up in around $1 in value is wasting voting power.
That's why the higher tier curators throw by default 3%-4% so that the post can get some decent value and be closer to the reward curve.

Please expect further tweaking of the default vote, including 3% vote even for lvl 0 curators - that would mean one curation per day for those curators so let's hope they make them count ;)

Also we're also burning too much voting power currently which means that either we have too many curators or too much curation mana is available for everyone - probably both.That's why I and other curators will start to actively review curators and remove those who use the tool to upvote low-effort posts or curate mainly themselves.

Website Updates

Almost every day the website gets some updates, I probably spend too much time on this instead of reviewing the curations. One more section that is needed is the curations review page where all the recent curations will be listed with some stats - soon(TM).
https://tipu.online/curators

That wraps it up for today, see you next time!