Hi @cardboard I am a very active curator (cofounder of @c-squared / @c-cubed curation group) and would love to participate in your project as a curator. Would be great to be able to give an extra boost to those really awesome posts I find and should be a good bost for tipu as well as a ton of big votes often end up coming along behind my curation.

RE the discussion above about how incentivize the behavior you want from your curators:

I think you can find a middle ground between outright banning curators who only curate the same circle (jerk), and not taking into account diversity of curation in the reward at all. Something common sense might be generate a curator score from (as first ideas): diversity of authors curated (higher score = less likely to be repeat authors curated over and over); avg. author payout of curated authors (higher score for curating lower rewarded authors); curation reward generated for tipu from curation (which could still be a metric that circle-jerky type curators / curators who curate higher paid authors do well at); curator CSI (giving higher scores for people who are less circle jerky in their overall voting behavior). Then order curators by their combined score (weighted however makes sense) and scale the payout accordingly. Circle jerky curators who curate good content (but from a small / well rewarded circle) would fall toward the back third, so they could keep on participating but just not receive as much reward as those who are actually out there actively curating for new content and spreading their vote around.

I am sure you are already thinking of ways to do quality control checks on curators, one easy of course would be to order curators by total negative rshares (flags) received by posts they curate and starting your quality control checks there.