What is @buildawhale
@buildawhale was founded to offer promotion services to Steem users to promote quality content produced by Steem users.
My goal was to allow users to gain exposure and followers by getting the attention of others not create a cash machine where you put $10 in and get $20 out regardless of what you submit.
Curation Digest
The way I tried to do this is to reward quality content with our daily Curation Digest where we look through all the posts submitted to our service and choose our five favorite posts to feature daily.
Being featured in our Curation Digest has a proven effect of increased organic votes, increased followers, and more engagement. It also allows us to introduce users to new authors they may never heard of.
Spam Prevention
When I first started @buildawhale, I wanted to offer the ability to promote quality content and not reward low effort and stolen content.
In the past, I frequently submitted authors who plagiarized to https://steemcleaners.org/abuse-report/ anonymously and in private to @patrice.
Bid Bots are continously blamed for the amount of spam and garbage being rewarded on this platform. There is endless amount of stolen and low effort content being highly rewarded without the use of bid bots and I spend a lot of time proactively identifying and shutting down spam and plagiarism.
In multiple cases I have spent 5-10 hours to uncover all the accounts tied to one user spamming across multiple accounts regardless if they take advantage of my service, another service, delegation, or private Steem power.
This activity is unrewarded and counter productive to running a promotion service as spammers are the best customers a bid bot can have. When was the last time you heard of a bid bot ban a spammer?
Blacklist
If you haven't heard of our blacklist you haven't been paying attention.
As I said above, I put countless hours into identifying and preventing rewards on plagiarism, spam, scams, abuse, and fraud. This is an endless, thankless, and unrewarding job, in fact it costs me money as my service makes less than bots who don't blacklist users.
You can see our current blacklist with over 1,000 users I have personally identified and verifed by hand.
Prevote Club
@buildawhale has a prevote club that offers additional votes to users who use our service. We currently have around 40-50 accounts in the Prevote club offering guaranteed curation rewards to members and additional value to our users.
Terms of Service
We have not posted our terms of service in some time as Steem has no good way to pin posts or have a more detailed description available without searching through hundreds of posts.
Our terms of use are simple.
We will not reward plagiarism, and if found plagarising you will be blacklisted and potentially lose your vote.
If you are caught spamming, you will be blacklisted and potentially lose your votes.
If you are caught scamming or committing fraud, you will be blacklisted and potentially lose your votes.
If you are blacklisted, you will not receive a refund.
If there was a mistake on our part and you have been blacklisted, we will refund and make things right.
If you have a question about our service, blacklist, or want to report abuse please reach us on Discord and do not post comments on our posts or @themarkymark's posts.