Tasteem – Abuse and Teething Problems but getting there.

It’s a fact that I am a fan of the Hive account@tasteem incentive. Receiving a nice reward just for posting a restaurant review is good enough in itself but there’s more to it than that.

The standard vote up is around $1.80 and is added to your post after 30 minutes or so. They do take a full vote off you as soon as you post your review, if you click this box when posting (see below) and I think they also take 9% of your rewards.

If you choose to click the ‘Support Tasteem’ box then you will help grow the account and provide some extra reward for the top three winners, as well as gaining a better vote. I always click this box.

The Faq is well worth reading and can be found here.

Tasteem is a contest as well as a reviewing incentive which makes it ever more interesting. After 5 days the contest ends and the top three gain some STEEM as well as a 20% vote worth over $10.

This is a reward I recently received for finishing 9th. (above).

If you are lucky enough to hit the top three, then as well as the 20% vote you get a cut of the winnings. I finished third in the one (above) and gained an extra 2.555 STEEM.

But all was not great at Tasteem recently. There has been a lot of abuse and bickering on the discord channels, and a lot of cross-voting on bookmarks saw some cheaters heading to the top of the contest on the last day.

Hive account@bengy and I highlighted some abuse out in the discord channel and it was very efficiently and quickly ironed out by one of the administrators named Hive account@siamcat.

We both have to thank her for doing a great job and for putting us both back in our deserved finishing positions of 2nd and 3rd.

Hive account@siamcat I have added you to the Hive account@chops.support passive voting account as a thank you for what you did for us.

The past abuse seems to have been ironed out now as the last contest appeared not to yield any cheaters and there were fewer entries. I guess these people have been banned. Once you are banned from Hive account@tasteem, there is no re-admittance, EVER.

The criteria for finishing in a higher contest position has now been changed. Before it was based off number of votes and bookmarks, but now it’s based off something else that doesn’t seem so transparent to the contestants. I personally like this idea as we have seen enough abuse already.

To be eligible for the Hive account@tasteem contests, you need to be white listed. It seems to be not so easy to get on the white list but I see that as a good thing.

Hive account@tasteem love detailed reviews, but there’s has been some poor ones posted in the past and they do appear to be choosier now on whom to ‘admit’ into the club.

Click here to apply to be white listed.

I’m wondering what will become of these reviews once the contest is finished. It would be a waste to see them just end up on the block chain. I’m sure they have plans to be the decentralised Trip Advisor or something similar; I hope so.

For more details visit https://tasteem.io/