Hey there SmartSteemians,

Today we're going to address our blacklist, the waiting time to get whitelisted and our policy against SPAM & ABUSE on STEEM.

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It has come to our attention that @msteemian was plaggiarizing a lot of content lately, and even pumped the plagiarized piece above with an obscene amount of bought votes.

The post we're talking about is now flagged to oblivion and can be found here:

Post: https://steemit.com/life/@msteemian/power-packed-20-minute-workout-routine

We have removed all of our votes, as seen below:

Since SmartSteem takes Quality of Content very serious - we made the decision to remove all of our votes from the posts still in the payout window.

This has lead us to want to clarify a few things.

Are You a Spammer? Do You Plagiarize? Do You Create Content To Buy Upvotes?

...If you answered any of these questions with a "YES!", SmartSteem isn't for you.

We take quality very seriously!

In fact, one of our top support questions is why is account "Whitelisting" taking so long. The answer is simple.

We're a small crew of highly motivated individuals, but analyzing an account and its content takes some time. We take pride in being demanding and whitelisting only people who contribute to the health of the blockchain.

This helps keep abuse at all time lows while skyrocketing meaningful posts to all time highs.

However, due to the huge influx of sign-ups, we have candidates by the hundreds now, which means we will take a bit of time manually reviewing and whitelisting you guys.

Rest assured we aren't "Sleeping on the Job".

So, summing up, you'll find we don't support plagiarists, low effort posters, scammers, spammers and other black hatted individuals.

We want to grow, and for us to grow the platform has to grow with us.

At the end of the day, it is up to all of us to make STEEM a better place.

What does smartsteem offer?

• Bid-Bot through smartsteem - send URL as MEMO to @smartsteem - votes are every 2.4h - both SBD & STEEM accepted - check on steembottracker.com for current status.

• Buy Upvotes through smartmarket. Send URL as MEMO to @smartmarket or go to smartsteem.com and use our own Tool. Both SBD & STEEM accepted. You will also see the currently available vote-values for smartmarket on smartsteem.com

• Sell your Votes with @smartmarket and earn SBD & STEEM. Checkout smartsteem.com for more info.

• Delegate STEEMPOWER to @smartsteem and earn profit-shares of the bid-bot proportionate to your delegated amount. We pay out 95% of our profits! Go to https://smartsteem.com/sponsors and check out this post: https://steemit.com/steem/@smartsteem/guide-how-to-delegate-to-smartsteem-and-earn-profit-shares

Do you have questions?

Checkout out our Frequently Asked Questions at smartsteem.com/faq

And if you can't find the answer there, contact us on discord: https://discord.gg/srHEUuk