Hello. I just read this post and I believe there's been some misunderstandings combined with lack of proper explaining by the ex-curator of Hive account@ocd you were in contact with.

First off.

If an account wants to republish your content in full from their page

We do not republish content. We write a short description of what the post is about and some times add an image from the post to it for the readers of the Hive account@ocd compilation posts.

These kinds of promotional accounts are a very clever scam that takes advantage of noobs

Here is a prime example.

So even though you in the comments with that curator didn't know all the rules and how Hive account@ocd operates you decided to accuse us for scamming and taking advantage of newcomers?

I understand he came off a bit passive aggressive and didn't provide all the necessary facts but neither did you check up on the Hive account@ocd account properly nor seem to realize how many curators share the daily posting rewards it generates.

The rules and how the account operates is public and has been posted onto the blockchain, there have been some changes in payout structure due to the support the posts get which as you've screenshotted to are around 100$ a day shared among ~20 curators. If you follow the transactions of the account you will notice that none of the curators make more per week than the actual posts they are nominating for curation. The authors of the posts make a bit more as it takes a lot more time to write them up.

The curator you talked to was wrong to say that we re-steem posts. We do not do this as of now as we are building up the account in followers through re-steeming its posts on my account which already has built up followers and the curators accounts. At one point it will probably start re-steeming them but having links to the posts it nominates is a lot similar.

The posts the account nominates are often from new users and we try not to nominate them more than once or twice. The reason we ask for permission to publish a description combined with an image of the posts we nominate is due to the fact that the Hive account@ocd account also makes posting rewards through that and a big reason it was created was due to lack of these curation guilds that are open about their payouts and and don't infringe on users without asking permission like some other projects were and might still be doing doing.

I vote with 100% on the ocd post since it is shared among so many curators and much like the payout structure of the website they are also vested 50% in SP. After the compilation post is posted I then manually look through the nominations and vote for them as well depending on rank of votes they have received internally by the curators and I also vote on the nominations that didn't make the compilation post with a smaller stake. Daily I spend about 30-40% of my voting power on all of these posts.

I understand that there is a thin line between stealing someone's thunder and attention from their account and what some may see as rewards as well but our intention can not be further away from that. That is a big reason we try and find posts that are undervalued (generally under $10 in rewards) and after nomination I vote on them manually to $20-30. So they receive more posting rewards, higher reputation and through the Hive account@ocd account which is rising in followers also more followers. There are many positive comments on those posts daily about users that read them to be able to find newcomers much like you that share their interests easier than filtering through the "new" section.

Our curators do a lot of work to make sure the content isn't plagiarised, stolen off someone else and some of them are even specifically looking for content of certain genres/tags. Their rewards are often not that high as other similar projects like Hive account@curie offer but they do the work on their free time and realize that it helps new authors out who without their curating would've not made the same amount of posting rewards or gotten those extra followers and attention and like many others they want the platform to succeed and rise in quality.

If an author does not want to be featured in our articles all they have to do is decline the comment asking it. As chiefmappster stated we have never had any complaints about the activity of the account so far after over a month of running and over 800 followers gained in that time and I believe it was unfair of you to judge it and accuse it of scamming before knowing all the details about it.

Hope that made it a bit clear of how the account operates and what its goals are in the long run. Let me know if you have any other questions.