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Nearly 4 months ago - after countless hours of development - <a href="smartsteem.com" target="blank">smartsteem.com</a> was officially launched.

We kept innovating and improving over these last few months, but one thing is still untouched:

**Our Fundamental Values**

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<center><h1>Empowering Quality Content</h1></center>

Our vision is and always has been: **to empower quality content on Steem.**

Regardless, if that content is published via Steemit.com, Busy.org, utopian.io or d.tube.

We believe, that post-promotion (vote-buying) is a valuable tool for every steemian; as it gives the content-creator the power to reach more users, future readers and also possible curators.

But we want to make sure, that only great content and authors are able to use our services.

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<center><h1>Only Great Content Allowed</h1></center>

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We achieve this goal with our whitelist-system by manually reviewing users who want to promote their posts via smartsteem.com.

Based on strict guidelines, which are explained in detail below, the user receives a rating between 0 and 3 stars.

Depending on the received star rating, a user is eligible for the purchase of different amount of votes. Because we allow every vote-seller to decide to which star-rating his votes should be sold to.

We also blacklist abuse-users, which prevents the use of all services from smartsteem.com, in addition with a report to @steemcleaners.

And in extreme cases, <a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@themarkymark/how-to-make-usd175-000-a-year-posting-youtube-videos#@therealwolf/re-themarkymark-how-to-make-usd175-000-a-year-posting-youtube-videos-20180312t142224758z">votes will even be removed from those posts.</a>



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<center><h1>Review Guidelines</h1></center>

We innovated and developed a set of guidelines to effectively review steemians - these are called *SmartStars Guidelines*, which every reviewer has access to.

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These guidelines are followed and are also getting refined by our reviewers - which are motivated steemians who have reviewed already over 1400 users.

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<center><h1>8 Reviewers - 1400 reviewed Users</h1></center>

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Making sure that only great content & users get whitelisted is quite a lot of work. To do that, we have a growing number of reviewers who reviewed over 1400 users so far.

Of those 1400 users - only 740 have been whitelisted. And we still have over 700 users waiting to be reviewed.

Our vision is that **every** active steemian knows about smartsteem.com and has been reviewed at least once.

If you want to help us to achieve this goal, then please join us on discord:

https://discord.gg/srHEUuk

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<center><h1>Do you have what it takes?</h1></center>

Do you want to get whitelisted as well?

Don't worry. It's really simple.

Just go to <a href="https://smartsteem.com">smartsteem.com</a> and click on login. 

Afterwards, click on your profile-image and then *profile*.

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There you will find a big, blue button - called: *Get Whitelisted*.

A click on it, will reveal our simple application form.

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Afterwards your status will be on pending, until our reviewers have reviewed your profile.

You will receive a notification-transfer when this happens.

But you can always check on your profile if you have been reviewed.

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If you are not happy with your result - don't worry. You are able to request a re-review after 1 month.

Simply ask us on discord: 

https://discord.gg/srHEUuk

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<center><h1>Earn with SmartSteem</h1></center>

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We are doing all this to ensure, that the votes from our vote-sellers and the steempower from our delegators are only getting used for great content, authors and contributors.

But we also take pride in offering the most profitable services for investors on Steem.

Which means: if you want to earn the most out of your steempower, then go to <a href="https://smartsteem.com">smartsteem.com</a> and read our post <a href="https://steemit.com/steem/@smartsteem/two-ways-to-earn-with-smartsteem-do-the-smart-thing">Two Ways to Earn With SmartSteem: Do the Smart Thing!</a>

If there are still questions left - then please join us on discord: https://discord.gg/srHEUuk

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*Disclaimer: This post has been up-voted via @smartsteem and all delegators have been credited accordingly.*

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