Steemit is growing at an incredible speed, new users are joining us everyday and new content gets created every second. On Tuesday 5 December 2017 89'906 posts were published on steemit. That's about one post per second. And 381,743 upvotes were made. This makes more than 4 upvotes per second! Writing a post that stands out from the crowd and is read is not easy and often associated with luck. There are some curator on steemit, but they sometimes demand SBD in return for an upvote. New users have to buy into the system to get upvotes from this accounts. Gridcoin has a lively and active community on steemit. Well-known and appreciated community members like @vortac and @dutch curate good posts about Gridcoin here. These upvotes are important to highlight good posts and increase the activity and visibility of the Gridcoin community on steemit.

## Why we need an independent community account
The biggest part of the value of all upvotes of Gridcoin Community comes through @vortac. That is excellent and I am grateful for his work. Unfortunately, the Gridcoin community depends on him. And he has great responsibility and power to steer the discussions on Steemit. Independent and differentiated opinion-forming can only come about if different opinions are presented. With a community account, the independent curation can be secured on steemit.

## The tasks of the community account
I see the task of the community account only in the curation of good posts. The account should NOT be used to post posts about Gridcoin and with that to control public opinion-forming.

## Which roles ensure the independency of the community account
### Owner
There should be one person that has access to the owner key of the community account. With this key one can change all other keys and have full access to the account. 
The owner should be a trusted and well-known community member. I was thinking of @dutch. The owner is elected by a vote in the Gridcoin client.
### Curators
Curators only have access to the posting key. That means they can't transfer funds or power up. They are responsible to curate good Gridcoin posts with upvotes. 
The upvoting is done based on rules that ensures that every opinion is respected and nobody gets censored. The curators are elected by a vote in the Gridcoin client.

What do you guys think? Is it worth to further investigate this idea? If you think so I'm willing to write a draft of the curation rules.