MinnowBooster Epic Update - Community Whitelist Now Online!
Hey Steemians! This is @raycoms here bringing you an exciting new update about the MinnowBooster platform. You may not know me but I'm one of BuildTeam's top developers and one of the main driving forces behind MinnowBooster's development.
Many of you have asked for a way to eliminate abuse on the Steem blockchain and there are quite a number of people who believe that bid bots are the reason why Steem isn't more successful as an ecosystem. If you've been paying attention we have made many attempts to eliminate abuse from actively scanning the blockchain, increasing customer support agents in our discord server and updating our Terms of Service with new requirements and specific criteria for buying votes.
All of that has helped immensely but the fact of the matter is that without the help of the Steem community, there's simply no way to eliminate abuse. We've listened to Steemians and today I'm proud to announce that MinnowBooster is taking a leap forward in helping Steemians curate quality content while using the MinnowBooster voting market for visibility.
I would like to introduce the future of responsible voting...
The MinnowBooster Community Whitelist
The community whitelist was designed to enable quality content producers on the Steem blockchain to actively curate and groom other quality content producers with the goal of creating an approved whitelist made by Steemians for Steemians.
Some of the benefits of being whitelisted include:
1.) MinnowBooster Whitelist Members are allowed a total send of 100SBD / Day compared to the max send of 50SBD / day for normal users.
2.) MinnowBooster Whitelist Members receive up to 0.5% commission on votes bought by whitelist members they participated in reviewing (depending on the number of reviewers).
3.) MinnowBooster Whitelist Members receive a higher level of profitability on purchased votes when compared to normal vote buyers.
Keep in mind to get a place on the whitelist you will need to be invited by a member of the whitelist, approved by 3 additional members of the whitelist and finally approved by a MinnowBooster admin. This means that there are 5 people reviewing each account and ensures that only writers who strongly adhere to the rules outlined in the MinnowBooster Terms of Service are allowed to join!
Every whitelisted member starts with 2 invitations and 5 votes. If you vote on a whitelist applicant and they are accepted into the whitelist you receive your original vote back to be used again as well as bonus votes for being such a great voter! If you invite a member and they become accepted you receive another invitation to continue the good work!
Don't understand what I'm talking about? That is fine... Here's a simple graphic explaining it visually:
The MinnowBooster Whitelist Model
Now, I'm going to lay out how it works step by step:
1.) You must first be invited by a whitelist member.
2.) After being invited when you login to your account on https://minnowbooster.net you'll be able to see a link that says whitelist on the left in the navigation panel. Additionally you will see that the dropdown menu on the top right has a new link 'Invite to Whitelist'
You have 2 invitations which can be used to invite amazing Steem content producers.
3.) After you use your first invitation it will take you to this screen:
>Users who have been invited are allowed 5 votes which they can use to approve or reject whitelist candidates.
To be accepted a person must be invited, receive 3 votes and be approved by an admin.
Keep in mind that your votes matter and voting correctly will result in bonus money and additional votes!
Thoughts on the MB Community Whitelist
This is a new system which we will be testing out as a beta run of what we hope becomes the new norm for all voting bots on the Steem platform. Together we can eliminate abuse and make sure that the blockchain does what it was designed to do, publish outstanding original content!
Thank you again for your patience, understanding and support of the MinnowBooster community whitelist program. There are many more good things to come!
Why choose @Minnowbooster?
Minnowbooster strives to provide a truly investor-class model for Steem investors who are either not good at curating content or do not have the time or inclination to do so and would prefer to earn a "Masternode like" competitive APR return on investment with daily payouts, and simultaneously empowering the community and stimulating the attention economy of the Steem blockchain.
Our team will continue to move forward to equip you with the services you need to succeed on Steem!
What can MINNOWBOOSTER do for you?!
| What? | Currency | Advantages |
|---|---|---|
| Buy upvote | SBD | Earn an instant return |
| Lease SP from market | STEEM | Increase your vote strength and curation rewards |
| Delegate SP to market | STEEM POWER | Earn daily STEEM dividends |
| Invest STEEM in MinnowBooster | STEEM | Earn daily SBD dividends |
| Delegate SP to MinnowBooster | STEEM POWER | Earn daily SBD dividends |
| Sell your vote to MinnowBooster | VOTING POWER | Earn SBD share of sells |
CURRENT PARAMETERS:
| Parameter | Value | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum Upvote | 0.01 SBD | Minimum SBD you can send |
| Upvote comments? | Can Be Enabled | |
| Profit | Always Guaranteed! | Varies with SBD price, but always receive more than send. |
| Minimum Lease Purchase | 1 STEEM | |
| Maximum SP Lease / Steem | 1 STEEM/50 SP | Price per week/Lease size |
| Minimum SP Lease / Steem | 1 STEEM/400 SP | Price per week/Lease size |
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Your ToS is not visible in the FAQ section. I think you should change that ;-)
Or you could make an extra section in the navigation panel.
Maybe include a number of whitelist sellers counter on the mainpage?
It is good to see some innovation and a genuine attempt at combating abuse via bidding services. 2 questions I have that might bring this initiative unstuck.
Does it create a barrier for entry for new Steemians? Potentially there is risk of creating a mega-circle jerk.
Once someone is whitelisted and their behaviour turns abusive, is there any corrective mechanism to remove a pre-whitelisted member?
I think potentially this is a very good initiative if done right and participants act in the right spirit.
Very good questions. It doesn’t create a barrier for entry as people who are not whitelisted can still use Minnowbooster, they just won’t enjoy the additional benefits that the whitelist brings. In time new Steemians who produce quality content will attract attention and receive an invite from those who actively curate the whitelist. And if someone on the whitelist begins to abuse the service, they can still be banned if someone follows our normal abuse reporting procedure through our Discord support chat. Being on the whitelist does not offer special protection from that.
Normal abuse reporting procedures apply - we have no problem making the abusers fly. They can be reported in our Discord server, where it can be discussed, whether they are fit for the whitelist or not.
As for the barrier for new Steemians, i hope all reviewers don't only look at the user's rep, but actually look at the quality as well.
To up the accuracy, we might discuss whether to up the needed positive or negative votes to 5. This is still a beta, so all suggestions are welcome and all reasonable suggestions will be considered.
This evaluation thing is addictive!
I've been looking through blogs for almost 3 days straight now (and believe me, choosing whether to accept or reject is difficult! Hence my list is only 4 pages long. I keep pressing the "Back" button when I just can't decide).
I'm glad you're having fun with it; conscientious and enthusiastic reviewers such as yourself are exactly the people who will ultimately make the whitelist a success!
How would you guys like to whitelist this account? This would be SUPER helpful for some exciting updates coming in the future ;)
Good idea! I’m all for it!
My chief concern on this venture is the bottom line. Will this new initiative provide the deserves respect within the SteemIt community to make @MinnowBooster a more marketed product in the space or will it alienate users from using Minnow Booster, if say, someone doesn't get whitelisted and rages over their status.
It is quite noble of you to introduce such a revolutionary mechanism to evaluate user contribution and post quality, however nobility and bold action aren't tradable on the markets.
Due to the profitability to run Bid Bots, the space is conflated with them in a manner that reduces visibility for Minnow Boosters. I have spoken with minnows who have never heard of MB and never understood that there was a superior service on the chain. Combating the damaging effects Bid Bots have on the chain goes beyond abusers.
Regardless, it is admirable for MB to boldly place character above profits and take an aggressive step towards the prosperous direction for SteemIt. This touts the continued mission of MB of providing superior services to minnows, boosting minnows (God awful pun intended), and maximizing the future of the blockchain.
Keep the good work coming :)
This is something we need because of poor quality content flooding over in the trending page. I hope by future developing further it can the leap of Steem coin price. Which I do believe will happen soon in the future. Holding all my Steem coin for my future and future of my sons and daugthers. Great development @minnowbooster
I think this is a great initiative, yet I am curious about how I could get the attention of anyone in the withe list to get an invitation.
Just by commenting here you got someone’s attention! I see you have already been accepted onto the whitelist, congrats. :-) I checked out your blog too, love your amazing artwork!
I was asking mysef same question too, @anritco. Thank goodness @cryptomancer responded in a manner that is satisfactory to me.
Another question would be how about people who miss this post? How could such people get whitelist invites?
Great job from the buildteam and @minnowbooster :)
@maryfavour & @redfishpillar.
Great initiative!
Hope this will lower the abuse on here!
Btw, do vote sellers have to separately sign up for the new (and lower ROI) voting option?
Im agree with you in this part
Thoughts on the MB Community Whitelist
This is a new system which we will be testing out as a beta run of what we hope becomes the new norm for all voting bots on the Steem platform. Together we can eliminate abuse and make sure that the blockchain does what it was designed to do, publish outstanding original content!
I wish the other bot make the same thing