MinnowBooster - Updated Terms of Service (ToS)
We will be taking new measures to eliminate inappropriate use of our service. Abusers be warned, a new policy is being put in place and if you continue to upvote content that violates our TOS, we will be removing your upvote and declining a refund payout.
What constitutes abuse of @minnowbooster?
- Using multiple accounts to post duplicate content and purchasing MB upvotes for all of them
- Same goes for using multiple accounts to post low quality content just to farm Minnowbooster for profits
- Upvoting posts with MB that are written in a copy / paste style
- Using a MB vote for very short or repetitive content. Length is subjective, but 150 words is a good safe guideline.
- Using the service via automation scripts and bots
- Scraping information from MB website
Photography Post Rules:
- Single photo posts are not allowed
- Photography posts must contain supporting text and show significant effort in terms of production value (location, setup, lighting and subject) to be considered boostable.
Art, Video & Animation Post Rules:
- Posts must be originally produced by the author and contain supporting text.
- Memes are not considered art.
Public Domain Content:
- Sources and Authors used in posts must be correctly cited and linked to original content
Forbidden Topics:
- Violence, self-harm, gore
- Politics & political opinion
- Religion
- NSFW
Use discretion in upvoting posts, using a small MB upvote for short content may be okay under some circumstances but think about the content you are upvoting and decide based on the criteria we have laid out.
What is @minnowbooster's new policy in dealing with abuse? Users who violate our TOS regarding upvotes will face the following consequences:
1.) Your post will be unvoted by Minnowbooster
2.) You will not receive a refund for the original upvote.
3.) Your account can be blacklisted
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User errors while using our upvote or delegation services are non-refundable
Violation of these TOS can result in a temporary or permanent blacklisting. In case user is blacklisted, the first 10 transactions done by the user are returned with a warning in the transaction memo.
Any amounts sent won't be refunded after 10 warnings.
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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I hope that all the other upvote bot services follow your footsteps in putting down strict rules against vote abuse through bots.
A lot of trending post are there because most of upvote bid bots have no rules to adhere to upvote posts.
I appreciate your rules.
Given time, it is @minnowbooster's belief that this new policy and the enforcement of it will do a considerable amount of good in terms of bringing back quality posts made by real minnows. Thanks for your appreciation and understanding of this new policy.
Welcome.
Agreed, it is very important to crack down on users that are abusing the system. This is a great step in the right direction, thank you @minnowbooster for all your help, support, and dedication to the Steem network!
Yes we felt that we need to make some changes to our Services and here we are ... Thanks for your appreciation and support :)
how long did it took to get a steem level of 60?
any tips for a starter?
For starter, the only tip you need to put in your head is to always post interesting content consistently. As you can see, getting votes is not very easy unlike before.
true that.
thank you. i think some of my posts are somewhat interesting well for some people
Well your rep increases when you get upvotes
If you get whale upvotes then it increases faster
Great to see that you're putting in some real effort to try and prevent abuse. I'd really like to see a bigger effort from some of the bid-based bots too, without them it's a losing battle.
What exactly is abuse? Its not like if I buy a vote I get any profits.. in fact the rewards from the votes are always a negative ROI when what I pay for the vote :/
Well if you add SBD + STEEM then you're always in profit
Good job guys!
I appreciate your rules!
I disagree with part of your terms. I'm against upvoting poor quality content and vote farming because that generally makes the steemit world a worse place, but why would you put restrictions on the type of content people produce? Who cares if someone wants to write about religion or politics.
Yeah, I get you can do whatever you want, but I find a clause for "Forbidden Topics" to be a bit much.
Since we sell votes of users, we want to protect them from having their vote on things they may not agree with. So if you buy the vote of someone who disagrees with you on a controversial topic, we don't want them finding themselves upvoting stuff the disagree with.
I agree that politics if done respectful are good for steem. But we have to protect our sellers in that regard.
Mmmmh. This is a tricky one. I think that politics is an interesting topic and it seems to me that an article that expresses political views can trigger a lively discussion with many comments which is good for Steemit and the community.
The other thing is; if someone decides to sell their votes through minnowbooster, doesn't that inheritably have the consequence that your vote goes to content you may not like or may disagree with. If this is an issue then maybe you shouldn't sell your vote.
But as I said; it's a tricky one. I think MB is taking some big steps in battling spam and making Steemit better and I applaude you for it.
I guess I can see that. I can't really get behind the whole vote selling thing. I loan out steem power through your platform, and I have a hard time even coming to terms with that. I probably spent more time researching the users applying for the loans than the interest is worth, and I still don't feel good about it. But, that's how due diligence works sometimes. If I couldn't do some sort of due diligence myself, I just wouldn't get involved.
But, I'm glad you are running a responsible service and putting quality controls in place. I appreciate that as a steemian and human being.
Aha, it makes sense now! I'd thought Minnowbooster was simply acting on inputs from... Taliban. If not from Trump.
How about letting the vote-sellers tick boxes, to decide what forbiddance should apply to their vote? Perhaps politics, religion and activism-against-violence shouldn't be ostracized, if the platform is meant for mass adoption?
Disclaimer: I have used MinnowBooster just once and it was fantastic. It was rule-compliant, if I may add. :)
We are adding more and more tools to it so sellers get more control over what they sell. We are currently focusing on reducing the abuse of our bot and having votes available for when genuine users need them.
I think well articulated political and religious posts are valuable to the community because they promote critical thinking and open debate/activity. I also disagree with those restrictions. Glad I'm not alone there.
Well these are the topics that get the community offended and Minnowbooster has always been a community that helps another community thats why these rules were set
Hope this will bring a reasonable changes.
before I was very happy to hear the news that minnowbooster issued a new policy that may later be able to provide guidance for me who is still a beginner in this esteem world, it would be better if later I make mistakes or mistakes that are not related to the main points of the rules of program development policies such as violence, elements of racial and religious harassment, whether I am directly blacklisted or other sanctions, if it is advisable to make a kind of warning or warning before a fatal sanction, I am very proud and uphold the values of standard rules Operating procedure from program developers, thanks for your attention and cooperated
That is tremendous. If this could be monitored and carried out accordingly,it is will minimize this artitude.
It can be monitored and will be carried out. It is up to the Steem community to help track and monitor abuse. Farming, plagiarism, low quality posts boosted to high levels... None of it is acceptable and the rules have now been made more clear. Hopefully people will think twice about breaking these rules or they will have to face the consequences of their actions...
This is encouraging to see.