It will be hard to condensate over 10 years of history in few lines, so I'll make it very short.
The Curia, apart from its obvious role as the main Awarding Commitee for TWC, has a sort of "counselling" role, in the sense that it can propose modifications and improvements for itself or the site, but that the Hexagon Council always has the power to veto every Curial decision.
That happened very rarely to be honest, as of today I can only remember of 3 or 4 old amendments that remained pending and that were eventually vetoed to be removed, just for the sake of keeping the desk clean, so to say. Said the above, the Curia knows that its activity is basically limited to its own management and also in doing some sensible proposals to the Hex, therefore stuff that will be likely vetoed isn't even brought forward, at the maximum there's a general discussion about it (i.e. Curia meddling with the Staff procedures and regulations is a clear
no go). Apart from this, and also because of this I guess, the Curia has been doing an excellent work in spreading out toxicity and often creating a divisive environment; none the less it still works fantastically for rewarding people with the red badge and the large awards (we also added few secondary awards for modding and for other special deeds, over the last few years) and every once in a while it comes out with a good idea, like it happened with the
Post of the Fortnight.
For the records, I've done a consistent clean up and updating of the
Curia wiki and all the other related pages (Symp, Triumvirate, etc). I'm planning to review the Citizens' list page asap (once I've done with the Modding Awards), with the help of Caillagh, who already did a big work in proving the actualized list of citizens as sourced from the AdminCP