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A few days ago we put out a post on a Steemvoter Curation Guild proposal, we received some comments and thought we would address them in this new post. 

## Steemvoter Curation Guild

**Question:** Will it be using the votes even if the account is paused?

**Answer:** Yes it will, we will use the same code that votes our payment posts and that overrides the pause button, however if you want to be excluded for a short period from the curation guild you could opt-out and opt back in later.

**Question:** Opt-in vs Opt-Out

**Answer:** A few people brought up the concept of Opt-in vs our suggested Opt-out, the reason we suggested Opt-out is because there may be alot of users who signed up and since abandoned Steem but their accounts could still be used to upvote content for the community, also it is difficult to get people to take action, some may put it off and never get around to Opting in, which decreases the effectiveness of the guild. 

If someone is really that against being involved I'm sure if they receive an email giving them 7 days notice to opt-out before we start the guild, that they would login and opt-out. 

**Question:** What if we vote on @steempowertwins who already have visibility and on charity posts which certain users may not support charity.

**Answer:** It is surprising that there would be unwillingness to support charities, but this is a diverse community with many viewpoints and preferrences, maybe the following can be suggested:

1) An email sent every time a Guild post is voted on so you can unvote if you don't like it.
2) Perhaps we can add a blacklisted authors list so you can be excluded from voting certain authors you don't support
3) As a variation to the above, perhaps have a tag blacklist, which means if the post has the tag "charity" that you blackllisted, your account wouldn't vote on that Steemvoter Guild curated post. 

Regarding the @steempowertwins, Steemvoter gave them quite a lot of visibility, we believe we helped set them to trending and then the community took over and did the rest. We think the Steemlive show they are wanting to do is great for Steem, much like [The Daily Decrypt](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqNCLd2r19wpWWQE6yDLOOQ) video blog was good to put a spotlight on crypto projects. We would like to help support their initiative because their message will be simple and user-friendly for the retail masses. 

If however you really don't like to support that sort of thing; the above proposed solutions could allow you to blacklist such authors.

**Question**: A private chat group is not that transparent, what else can we do?

**Answer**: This is a bit difficult at the moment, Steemit doesn't offer an easy to use on-chain group chat solution. Also the people in the channel would be trusted community members and professional curators such as @instructor2121 who has trail followers such as @charlieshrem and @cryptoctopus who trust his vote choices. 

Steem itself is a delegated witness blockchain, where you put your trust in a select few who sign the blocks for you, so why not have a delegated group of people who make such decisions in a private chat channel, (private so links aren't spammed in and to maintain order) if you don't like chat channels you could always nominate someone you trust to join on your behalf to help select content. 

Looking forward to further comments and discussion.

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