Payment
Provide the transaction ID and image of the application fee (Test: 40 SBD, Mid: 65 SBD, Top: 100 SBD) to have your application reviewed.
https://steemd.com/tx/4ff72f746b63ab866281679ddc32a004a58dcb5c
Project Information
Please limit your responses in this section to 140 characters.
Company name: Steemcleaners
Place of Incorporation: N/A, Decentralized
Token name (if applicable): N/A
Token Type (ERC20, Steem-Engine, SMT etc.): N/A
Project Type (for profit business, flagging project, community, others please specify): Flagging Project
Existing Delegation Received
- When did you get the delegation?
6 Feb 2018
- Under what terms did you receive the delegation?
To only use for downvoting for mitigating abuse and related reward pool drain while remaining within scope. The delegation may not be used for upvoting.
- What was the intended purpose for the delegation?
To allow sufficient Steem Power for a large-scale anti-abuse effort.
- How have you applied your delegation for that purpose?
The delegation was granted by Ned Scott on behalf of Steemit, Inc.
- How long are you requesting the continuation with the delegation?
Maximum amount of time permissible or a period of 3 years.
Market
Please limit responses to 300 characters.
What problem is the product/project solving?
The project aims to solve the amount of fraud and malicious exploitation that occurs on the Steem blockchain and to ensure that the reward pool remains resilient to bad actors.
Core Team Details
Please limit responses to 500 characters for each team member.
Write short summaries about each core team member including their achievements to show they have a strong track record. Add links to their LinkedIn profiles to this section.
@Anyx is a Computer Engineering Ph.D. Candidate at the University of British Columbia, with research areas of High Performance Computing and Distributed Systems, Graph Processing, Machine Learning, and Blockchain technologies. He founded both @Cheetah and @Steemcleaners in 2016 as a means to address and reduce fraud and phishing.
When he's not maintaining Steemcleaners and Cheetah infrastructure servers, he is actively supporting the Steem ecosystem as a top witness. He presently runs a full public node and participates in key governance discussions and testing.
Github: https://github.com/ScottSallinen
@Logic is passionate advocate of honesty and integrity. He is one of the longest-standing members of the Steemcleaners team and is methodical both in his application of the Scope and in his background work as the primary accountant and report producer. He can usually be found combing through mountains of reports.
While away from his computer, he is a semi-professional athlete by trade and can be usually seen running long distances and completing physical challenges. He is fluent in English and Polish with a working knowledge of Spanish which allows him to both understand and support users in multiple languages.
@Guiltyparties is a former developer and decentralised venture leader who joined the Steemcleaners team after personal initiatives to combat fraud while educating users. He has over 20 years experience in organisation and leadership, which he uses to liaise between the Steemcleaners family of projects and the Steem ecosystem.
Outside of the Steemcleaners, he is a witness, managing developer of the BROSGN family of gaming sites, interim board member of the Steem Foundation, and founder of DLine. He is also the current operator of the Spaminator project and is fluent in Russian.
Github: https://github.com/gryter
@Pjau entered the Steemcleaners team after methodically proving his dedication to exposing plagiarism. Always a man of strong morals, he noticed a problem and decided to tackle it. He officially joined the Steemcleaners team in 2018 and has been a tremendous asset.
Pjau leverages his former years as a developer in support of the Steemcleaners and has developed several back-end applications, including the current Blacklist interface. He also operates a witness node which he regrettably recently disabled and is a regular contributor to the Irredeemables OS repository.
Github: https://github.com/pjau-steem
Minimum Viable Products
Please limit responses to 500 characters per product.
Provide links to your minimum viable products and describe it. If it is not available, please describe it and include how you plan to build it and when it will be built.
The website is fully built and operational. It incorporates a large back-end that directly interacts with the Steem blockchain to allow for consistent commenting and reward-pool fund restoration.
Business Strategy
Please limit responses in this section to 250 characters per question.
- Fiat Revenue Strategy: [E.g. We plan to sell NFTs which represent in-game items for US Dollars]
This initiative is non-profit and does not generate a positive income for the purpose of returns.
- Fiat Revenue Projections in $/user every month: [E.g. $10/user]
N/A
- How will your business strategy increase the amount of STEEM being powered up and/or burnt?
Steemcleaners will scale with the ecosystem.
- What financial incentives are you willing to provide to Steemit, Inc. and/or the Steem Community in return for the delegation? i.e. What's your skin in the game? [E.g. project tokens, revenue-share, etc.] (Without a return there's not a partnership, it's simply a contribution, and one that's easily left behind. In order to encourage businesses and communities to commit to the Steem blockchain and ecosystem long term there needs to be both a contract and a mutually beneficial partnership.)
We will continue to provide cost-saving measures in our identification of fraud and malicious actors as well as the restoration of the communal reward pool. Through our detection and mitigation of fraud not limited to plagiarism and identity theft we help keep both Steemit, Inc. and the Steem ecosystem resilient against potential reputation loss and legal consequences.
- Are you or how will you become financially sustainable once the delegation is removed?
We will seek alternative delegation sources.
KPI Progress Measurement
Please limit each KPI description in this section to 100 characters.
Suggest at least 3 KPI’s per project with which to measure the progress of your project(s) in its(their) current phase. KPI’s must be measurable and objective (a percentage or numerical value), or binary (yes / no or completed / not completed).
Please note:
KPIs are to be reviewed and evaluated by the committee in the next quarter.
KPI descriptions shouldn't change without a change request form.
Targets will be adjusted every quarter in future application.
Refer to this post for sample/suggested KPIs.
KPI1 description: Maintain a steady and uniform review and processing pace.
KPI1 target: 2500 comments delivered on processed posts on a monthly basis.
KPI2 description: Consistently empower unique community members to detect and report abuse.
KPI2 target: 500 unique community members reporting abuse on an annual basis.
KPI3 description: Consistently restore rewards to the Steem blockchain reward pool.
KPI3 target: Maintain a volume of 10,000 instances of reward restoration on an annual basis.
Token Offering (If Applicable)
If you are planning on offering a token, please fill out details below. Otherwise, if you haven’t tokenized, but still provide a service, please describe the service and the amount of that service that you’re offering to perform for Steemit and/or the Steem community in exchange for the delegation.
N/A, no Tokens are projected.
Token Details
Please limit responses to each question in this section to 10 characters.
Token Launch date: N/A
Total Token Supply at launch: N/A
Fundraising target (in order to fund expansion into the operational / project growth phase / mass market adoption): N/A
Yearly inflation: N/A
Percentage of total token supply that will be airdropped to ALL Steem stakeholders (a/k/a SP holders) in proportion to their SP: N/A
How many tokens and what percentage of your token supply will you offer Steemit Inc. / the Steem Community in exchange for the delegation? N/A
Do you plan to launch an IEO, ICO, STO or other public token offering? N/A
Do you plan to raise money from other investors? N/A
What is the vesting period for the following:
a) Team members:
b) Early / seed round investors:
c) ICO investors:
N/AWhat is the % token distribution to:
a) Team:
b) Marketing:
N/AIf you haven't tokenized, but still provide a service, please describe the service and the amount of that service that you're offering to perform for Steemit and/or the Steem community in exchange for the delegation.
The amount of the service that is offered is 100%. The service is unique to the Steem blockchain and is non-transferable.
The service is as described above.
Delegation Request
Please limit responses in this section to 10 characters.
How much of a delegation are you requesting? Limit your requests to one of the three tiers: Top-Tier, Mid-Tier or Test-Tier.
Top-Tier
Specify the desired time frame for the delegation in 6 month increments: [E.g. 6 months, 1 year, etc.]
3 years
Which one of the following answers best describes how the delegation will be used to add direct value to Steem:
A. It will be used to create new accounts.
B. It will be used to give new accounts 15 SP to give them the resources needed to use Steem and purchase goods and/or services through our platform.
C. It will be used to incentivize the creation of content that promotes Steem / your project on external platforms.
D. It will be used to provide limited trial or discount services to clients to encourage them to hold Steem and delegate in the future.
E. Other: Please describe.
It will be used to ensure the continued resiliency of the Steem blockchain against fraud and other malicious exploitation and to return illicitly gained rewards to the communal reward pool.
Agreement
We agree that our business will continue to leverage the Steem blockchain as long as we are receiving a delegation and 1 year following the removal of the delegation. During this time we also agree to promote the Steem blockchain as a valuable technological protocol that delivers unique value. We are willing to sign a legally binding contract with Steemit, Inc. to this effect.
We formally agree and accept.
Renewal Questions: Impact to Date Since the Start of Delegations
Table 1 (Totals)
| Quarter | Q2 2018 | Q3 2018 | Q4 2018 | Q1 2019 | Q2 2019 | July 2019 | August 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) # Users onboarded | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| (2a) Users (Steem) | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| (2b) Users (non steem) | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| (3) Impressions | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| (4) Value disbursed from delegation (USD) | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| (5) External Revenue (USD) | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| (6) Steem Powered Up (Project Accounts) | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| (7) Steem Powered Up (Clients) | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| (8) Steem Power Delegated (Community) | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| (9a) KPI 1 Maintain a steady and uniform review and processing pace. | 14969 | 18234 | 10592 | 8405 | 7515 | 3335 | 3033 |
| (9b) KPI 2 Consistently empower unique community members to detect and report abuse. | 726 | 601 | 276 | 209 | 151 | 52 | 51 |
| (9c) KPI 3 Consistently restore rewards to the Steem blockchain reward pool. | 2653 | 2826 | 2387 | 1779 | 982 | 944 | 528 |
| (10a) Steem burned | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| (10b) SBD burned | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Table 2: Steem Power Delegated Per Client
This section is not applicable for this project.
| Q2 2018 | Q3 2018 | Q4 2018 | Q1 2019 | Q2 2019 | July 2019 | August 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Client 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Client 2 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Client 3 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Client 4 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Client 5 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Client 6 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Questions (Where applicable, fill in tables above)
Please fill out the answers to these questions as best as you can. If it is not applicable to your project please put N/A. You will be asked to upload spreadsheet data in the Google Form, you can clone samples from here: ( Table 1 | Table 2 ).
- How many new accounts have been created using your projects' account this quarter?
N/A
- a) How many Steem accounts are interacting with your project (this includes guest accounts as well as Steem user accounts)
b) How many Guest (non Steem) accounts are interacting with your project
- How many impressions is your project getting?
N/A
- What is the total quarterly (USD) value of rewards disbursed directly tied to the delegation? (can be a negative number of your projects is a flagging project)
Due to the changing prices of STEEM and SBD, we are unable to calculate this value at this time. We will develop a system to keep such metrics going forward.
- How much external revenue have you generated in USD per quarter? Do not count Steem income from curation / voting.
N/A
- How much revenue have you brought to Steem as measured by total STEEM powered up through your project's Steem accounts.
N/A
- How much Steem is delegated to your project to manage on behalf of your clients? (fill sum in table 1, and show break down by client on table 2)
N/A
- How much Steem Power is delegated to your project from the Steem community?
52,942 SP
- For the KPIs listed above, back report progress for the duration of the delegation on a quarter by quarter basis.
Please see KPI table above.
- How much Steem / SBD has your project burned?
N/A
- Describe what value the project continues to bring to the Steem community and why the community should continue to support your project?
Steemcleaners protects the Steem ecosystem by detecting, reacting to and deterring fraudulent activity and related forms of abuse while returning funds to the communal reward pool. It is the longest-running anti-abuse project and follows a strict scope and process methodology, offering additional support through a reporting and an appeal process as well as regular community liaison.
Myriad users learn how to avoid plagiarism and post successfully due to Steemcleaners. Since all users are treated objectively, an individual who received a Steemcleaners downvote one week may have her account saved from a hacker the week after. For many new users and external businesses, a chance meeting with the Steemcleaners team is a key gateway to learning about the Steem blockchain and ecosystem.
The Steemcleaners team also holds and processes the master database of all user verifications (1415 of them) and, unfortunately, cases of identity theft on the Steem blockchain. Through our efforts we have been able to detect and respond to numerous identity theft attempts, often to the applaud of the unknowing victims.
We as a team are committed to continuing to ensure the resilience of the Steem blockchain and the Steem ecosystem against all manner of fraud and malicious exploitation.
- Describe your project roadmap with expected timelines and milestones.
2019 - Q4
While continuing to provide our regular services we will also focus on re-evaluating our scope in conjunction with a new round of community input (via questionnaires). This is to ensure we are optimised and prepared to assist Tribes and Communities in the best way possible and to adapt to the shifting Steem landscape.
Our scope documentation will be made public though GitHub in order to leverage a transparent and accessible mode of community input.