We are a small group of Steemit members who join the forces to help new and small members to become Minnows by reaching the amount of own 500 Steem Power. Therefore, we created the @UpVoCur service account which will provide manual curation of your published articles.
We are NOT free service, but we are the most rewarding one currently available on Steemit (as far as we know), and when it comes to ROI (Return on Investment) because we are offering a three times (x3 or 300%) bigger upvote for the paid amount.
To be able to provide such high return (especially now, from the very beginning when we are just another small account) our rules are non-negotiable strict as our first aim is to support new and small but original and quality content creators.
Therefore, and before you apply to our service be sure that you have read our rules carefully and understood them correctly!
UpVoCur Rules - Terms Of Service (TOS)
General Rules And Conditions
1. Acceptable Members
At the moment we accept only members whose accounts hold from 0.000 up to 500 own Steem Power. Members with 500.001 and more Steem Power will not be eligible!
- Eventually leased amounts of SP will not be taken into account.
- In the future, as we grow, we tend to increase that limit to be able to support Minnows to become Dolphins.
2. Upvotes
a) We provide only ten (10) upvotes per day!
We would try to increase that number in the future.
b) Each member may apply with only one post per day!
c) We do NOT upvote comments!
3. "First come, first serve!" - rule
With the intention to provide you with the highest upvotes possible, we are currently limited to 10 votes per day. Therefore, we will upvote first ten posts drawn to our attention, and which are according our Rules & TOS.
4. Payment & Returns
a) We accept only SBD payments!
b) MINIMUM payment is currently set to 0.010 SBD with the Return of $0.030 STU upvote.
c) MAXIMUM payment is currently set to 0.070 SBD with the Return of $0.210 STU upvote.
d) Any amount sent between minimum, and maximum payment will receive x3 return upvote.
Example
- 0.020 SBD payment will receive $0.060 STU upvote
- 0.030 SBD payment will receive $0.090 STU upvote
- 0.040 SBD payment will receive $0.120 STU upvote
- and so on...
e) For the approved post and regarding it received payment, we would always provide accurate x3 upvote at the given time, but please keep in mind that final author's reward may be different due to Steem/SBD exchange rate fluctuations.
5. NO Return Policy for incorrect or mistaken payments!
Any amount of Steem or SBD incorrectly or by mistake sent to our wallet is NOT going to be returned to its sender, and we would consider it as a donation!
6. Acceptable Languages
At the moment we can support only articles written in the English language.
Articles that are written in the English language but created with Google Translator (or any other translation app), as well as articles in poor English are NOT going to be accepted.
Articles that are written in other languages but has good English translation published too will be taken into consideration.
7. Unacceptable Services
We don't have anything against those services, their respective owners, and creators, but for now, we are NOT able to support posts created through dMania, DLive, Zappl and similar.
Steepshot posts CAN be taken into consideration if created with at least 50 words accompanying text.
8. Granted Rights
By paying for our upvote service, you are granting us the rights to publish your post's thumbnail photo and link to your post in our daily reports.
Acceptable and Unacceptable Posts
9. Only original and quality posts will be accepted
a) We do not support one-photo or one-video posts
b) We do not tolerate plagiarism of any kind (text or images)
c) We do not tolerate copyright infringement of any kind (text or images)
- Meaning, if the cited text (even if properly quoted and formatted as citation and with provided link source), exceeds the amount that may be considered as a fair share, your article is not going to be accepted.
- As well, articles inside which we may find any image, photo, illustration, etc. that is copyright protected (even if the proper source link is provided) is NOT going to be accepted without provided original author's allowance.
d) Also, and when using content that's not originally yours, keep in mind that it MUST be licensed as free to use for commercial purposes!
e) We do not support tag abuse (using tags that are not related to the post)
f) We will not support Inappropriate Content such as:
- Sexually explicit content (pornography, nudity, and other obscene materials);
- Any kind of violence, torture or hate (speech);
- Extreme political content;
- Content promoting or encouraging drug use and/or terrorist activities.
g) Posts containing affiliate or referral links are not going to be accepted either, except those with SteemFollower or SteemAuto links and those promoting Steemit related Steem.chat or Discord groups.
10. Post Length
a) Your post must consist of at least 200 words.
- The title, source links, bibliography, footnotes, self-promotional parts of your post including links to previous posts or similar, is not going to be calculated in the total amount.
b) Photography, arts and crafts posts, must have at least 50 words of accompanying textual part.
- The title, source links, bibliography, footnotes, self-promotional parts of your post including links to previous posts or similar, is not going to be calculated in the total amount for those posts as well.
11. Post Age
When applying for an UpVoCur upvote, your post shouldn't be older than 48 hours (2 days).
(Meaning, if your application arrives in our comment section after 48 hours of post publishing, we wouldn't be able to accept it.)
How To Apply Your Post To Be Boosted By UpVoCur?
12. Drop the link to the post for which you want to receive an UpVoCur upvote in the Comment section, under this post!
We are going to review your post, and if accepted we will inform you by posting a reply to your comment.
Keep an eye on your replies!
13. You have only 24 hours to pay after your post has been approved!
When you receive our comment reply that your post has been approved, you may send any amount of SBD (between the currently set minimum and maximum) with the link to the approved post in the 'Memo' of the transaction.
If we don't receive any payment within 24 hours after our confirmation comment has been published, we will give a chance the following member in the queue.
Final Notes
14. Every day (until further notice) we are going to publish a new post where you would be able to apply for your newly published articles.
15. UpVoCur Team reserve the right to change any of above rules.
To Summerize
- If you are original and quality content creator with Steem Power from 0.000 up to maximum 500 SP;
- If your post is at least 200 words long or longer, free of any spam, abuse or inappropriate content;
- If your photography, arts or crafts post contains at least 50 words that describe your work;
Your Post is Eligible to be Upvoted by UpVoCur!
Leave us your post link in the comment section below and see how it works!
* STU = Steem Token Units
Images sources:
All the images including dividers used in this post are Upvocur's Team own derivative work created using the Canva tool, and with the following two illustrations used from Pixabay:
🔹 Illustration 1
🔹 Illustration 2