Yesterday, @smartsteem received a 1 Million Steempower Delegation from @thejohalfiles.

We are extremely grateful for this and vowed to use this POWER to support GREAT CONTENT.

Now - there are some people, who think they are smart and try to abuse our system by creating Posts with EXTREMELY LOW QUALITY - which are then bought votes for.

<h1>THE PROBLEM: SPAM ABUSE</h1>

Smartsteem.com is the first voting-services with a detailed whitelist-system. This system however, is currently only partially active for @smartmarket (our Vote-Selling Market). Most of these Votes are for whitelisted-users only, but some are for everyone.

There might come a time where we will offer all of our services, ONLY to whitelisted-users. But we still want to allow Steemians who might not know about smartsteem yet, to use our bid-bot and our market.

However: From now on - we are NOT TOLERATING SPAMMERS that are trying to profit from @smartsteem or @smartmarket.

<h1>NO MORE SPAM</h1>

While everyone has their own opinion on great content - there is one thing most of us can agree on:

THIS - IS SPAM!

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPLpoJpVvncyKSwfKo6ua5Vrdg29yiKMx1KqmL53QKSBB/image.png)

We understand that not every post can be a masterwork - but creating such low Quality-Posts in a timeframe of 1 hour - is NOT OK.

And then - this also happens:

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQLgsXvWCj8QpsZvmDDoLx32p3ZcpfyAJCB2MEZhitzRu/image.png)

<h1>NO-REFUNDS for ABUSE</h1>

Researching about abuse-cases and then doing the action of actually blacklisting them and refunding, takes time.

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmT8VGYgZUY8VjTg8jypEpVjaxuhtXZ75ye2DkQoCan6F4/image.png)

And time is valuable - which could be spend much better on actually improving SmartSteem.

That's why we decided to create a NO-REFUNDS rule for extreme cases (as above).

Now, if someone creates LOW-QUALITY POSTS but is not spamming us - we will refund the person and then blacklist him / her.

However - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

<h1>What is ABUSE?</h1>

1.) Plagiarism
2.) Technical Analysis without any details
3.) Pictures and Videos with a title and nothing else
4.) Memes copied form the internet

<h1>What counts as extreme-case?</h1>

Multiple Posts per Day with multiple transfers to @smartsteem or @smartmarket.

<h1>With GREAT POWER comes GREAT RESPONSIBILITY</h1>

So much Power is currently in the hands of smartsteem and we won't allow people to profit by abusing the system.

We understand that there is a need for promotion on Steemit & Co. - that's why we offer our services.

OUR GOAL is to EMPOWER QUALITY CONTENT ... and NOT SPAM.

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