#curie isn't a tag that curators are necessarily going to be looking in - the general advice as far as tagging goes is to use the most popular tags that are relevant to your post, which will help to get the most eyes on your post. Sure any newbie that makes really, really good content definitely has a chance to be noticed by a curator and submitted to Curie for review and possible upvote. There are a lot of curators out there and all the popular tags are pretty well covered by curators, chances are very good that if a newbie is truly making exceptional content they will be noticed, as long as they are not using really unpopular tags that no one is looking in.