After securing an investment round from a private investor we are excited to announce that the first team members started working on BeScouted code as of yesterday. We have been a long bootstrapped project so now things will start to move faster to build the biggest photography community in the world that rewards users for sharing original content with our own SMT as a cherry on top. So huge thanks to all BeScouted and Steemit community members who made this possible and for your support.

Posting Improvement.

First things first and function before the form. Prior to implementation of various UI/UX changes and adding new features our main task is to make sure that all posts get recorded to Steem blockchain and all upvotes reach their destination. It is either us that do not understand Steemit API fully or the API itself is not that perfect but sometimes posts from BeScouted are not included into blocks hence are not eligible to rewards. We know how frustrating it is and we made this our top priority that has to be fixed possibly by posting/reading directly to/from Steem blockchain. Thank you all for your patience while we are working on it.

If anybody could advice on this and would like to become a part of BeScouted team, you can always contact @bescouted on Steemit Chat or reach us on our telegram channel: BeScouted.

Verification.

Our next task is adding additional levels of verification for new members to prevent accounts created by bots which disrupted our popular Photo Of The Day contest where top five photos selected by the community members get a full upvote from @bescouted.com This will also allow us to minimize identity theft and hence it is in the list of our top priorities.

Content Moderation and Curation.

Nobody ever reads Terms and Conditions, neither do i personally, but we moderate our content. We want BeScouted to become the platform that works to our members benefit and community of most talented artists and aspiring new talents.

We will keep removing photos that clearly lack quality and/or effort. You do not need professional grade gear to make a nice photo as it is photographer that makes a picture not the equipment. We understand that we all start from zero, but you can clearly tell where effort to tell something with the help of a photo has been made and where it's just messy careless snap with the intention to get some quick rewards. Latter will be removed with the corresponding label and if it continues to appear on the website we are sorry but that account will be terminated. We respect our community members and want them to interact in a professional and pleasant environment.

Tagging photos with NSFW tag: do not tag photos that are safe for browsing and do not include mature content or nudity with the nsfw tag. In most cases such tag will be simply removed, in some cases image itself might be deleted. Always check nsfw checkbox if photo contains mature content and/or nudity. Failure to do so most probably will also result in removal of such an image. Please respect the others.

Identity and Content Thieves and Plagiators.

THIS IS WAR!!!

We will never ever tolerate content and identity thieves. Will will wage our holy war against them and better do not even try. At least out of respect to yourself. And while occasionaly one might slip a stolen photo or two, we will eventually track it down and the best case scenario that account will be deleted without a warning. In more severe cases it will be reported to @steemcleaners - people that have our utmost respect for the incredible work that they do and such accounts will be down voted to the oblivion.

We understand that there are certain parts of the world where it is worth of risk, and it may be a substantial source of income, but... we can not approve taking rewards from the pool and giving them to crooks. You better invest some time, learn, practice, build a substantial blog with high reputation and your rewards will be tenfold. Seriously. We will delete all accounts with the suspicion of theft.

Damn It That Sounds Scary:)

I hate to write such lines as above, but it must be made very clear. We want honest, talented, creative people on BeScouted to make it the best environment for many forms of visual arts and people behind it to work, cooperate, share, learn and earn from their hard and important work. Once again we are very thank full to those who are with us already and we invite everybody to join. Soon new features will be added, and functionality improved further and your input, comments, advice and wishes are always welcome. We want to build a tool that you'd love to use daily, that would help you to supplement your income and help you in your growth and development.

We want your talent to BeDiscovered and we want you to BeScouted as an artist.

If you are in any relation with photography, or have amazing images of your work to share, visit BeScouted and see if you like what we are doing. You can upload your photos on BeScouted and they will also appear on your Steemit blog! You can curate content there and receive all curation rewards.

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We are already hosting more that 11 thousand extremely talented, friendly and active community members.

If you just want to see the best photography on Steemit click on our tag and discover amazing Steemit talents.

#BeScouted

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David