Termination of SmartVote Services.

smartvote (60)in #smartvote • 5 years ago (edited)

Short version

As of Thursday 12th September 2019 0:00 AM (Midnight) UTC, SmartVote Services will be terminated. @smartvote will stop upvoting. Our members can start un-delegating their SP and we will refund purchased SmartVote Shares (SVS) as soon as possible.

2019-09-17:
We have now refunded members who have purchased SVS.

Long version

SmartVote Services was launched in August 28th 2018. We were aiming at offering a delegation-based upvote service that rewards quality authors with 10x their delegation: delegate 1000 SP and we will use 10 x 1000 = 10 000 SP to upvote your content daily.

In order to be able to keep our promise, we also need to rent extra SP on a regular basis using our curation rewards and using contests run by @angelinafx, founder of the SmartVote.

The daily upvote of our members' posts was a manual process done by a human being every day at specific time through a dApp custom built by Steem Witness @quochuy.

SmartVote admin

Among the features of the admin interface:

talking to the Steem blockchain via its API and also via a custom Hivemind node and parsing delegation and transfer MEMOs.
auto-enforcement of restrictions such as character count for posts and comments or bonuses from various campaigns such as the use of SmartVote promotional banners.
auto-detect blacklist from @steemcleaners and other known blacklists
auto-calculate delegation, SP allocation, SVS purchases, STEEM payout etc...
a post preview pane also shows up to allow manual review of posts and comments with the ability for the admin to enter a Private Active/Private Key in order to perform an upvote or transfer.
Steem Keychain was also integrated to provide a safer way to perform admin tasks and would replace any feature requiring an private key.

Steem post preview

So after a year of operation, with the recent changes introduced by HF21/22, we have decided to cease operation and shutdown SmartVote Services. The curation rewards having dropped we were feeling that our upvote values were not up to our standard and our members with small delegations were getting nothing out of it. Additionally, as our SP leases have expired, new contracts had to be signed but the price was not attractive anymore, putting pressure on the team to find other ways to fund the service.

It's with sadness and regret that we have to announce that SmartVote services will be terminated in few hours.

Thank you to all who have trusted us.

The SmartVote Services Team.

#blog #service #investment #community

5 years ago in #smartvote by smartvote (60)

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d0zer (60) 5 years ago

Sad to read this but I understand. When will our shares be refunded?

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smartvote (60) 5 years ago

This will be a manual operation and we need to go through our history first. Expect 10-14 days from today although we will do our best to get it done earlier.

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smartvote (60) 5 years ago

You have been refunded. Thanks for having been with us.

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nuoctuong (61) 5 years ago

@angelinafx and @quochuy - I haven't been active for a while now, but it was out of randomness that I logged on today.. Sad to see that the service you're providing will no longer be available... I hope you're still active overall with the overall steem project.. -Phong

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quochuy (77) 5 years ago

Hey Phong.
We are both still active on the chain. Might come up with new ideas to trial in the future.
Good luck

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cashheaven (69) 2 years ago

welcome back SmartVote :)

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steemitboard (66) 5 years ago

Congratulations @smartvote! You have completed the following achievement on the Steem blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

You published more than 20 posts. Your next target is to reach 30 posts.

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happyphoenix (67) 5 years ago

Thank you for all of your support that you have given to us 🙏

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smartvote (60) 5 years ago

Thanks for having joined us on this journey. Good luck.

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kharma.scribbles (58) 5 years ago

Curation rewards dropped? They've seemed to increase here and many others have the same testimony.

I had heard of this service only to find out at the same time that it shutdown. That's so sad!

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smartvote (60) 5 years ago

It's more complex but the service stakeholder found it not sustainable anymore which is why it was decided to terminate and refund purchases. Thanks for asking.

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abbak7 (72) 5 years ago

Still haven't received any refunds... @smartvote

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smartvote (60) 5 years ago

Thanks for letting us know. We will double check and fix this.

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hivebuzz (74) 5 years ago

Congratulations @smartvote! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

You distributed more than 86000 upvotes. Your next target is to reach 87000 upvotes.

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cryptopie (78) 4 years ago

I appreciate your daily upvote for my blogs, God bless you I appreciate it a lot as it helps me to buy mu necessities for my wretched body @smartvote :) I love you.

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joseq1570 (65) 4 years ago

Exelente

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omarrojas (74) 4 years ago

Thank you for the evaluation of my publications. Also, I wish you every success in your work and healing. Hugs from Venezuela.

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omarrojas (74) 4 years ago

Thank you dear for the evaluation of my publication, related to the pear or pommel as a nutritious and medicinal fruit. Successes Greetings from Venezuela.

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raymondelaparra (68) 4 years ago

interesting

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hunterfree40 (47) 4 years ago

thanks

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hunterfree40 (47) 4 years ago

thanks

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ond (55) 4 years ago

I don't know if you have visited lately the cleaners but they are the worst copy paste spammers there. Posting the same thing again and again and accusing entire Communities as "scam" without any information or evidence of course.
https://steemit.com/@steemcleaners

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doctorgen (49) 3 years ago

Hi @smartvote , great day! Thank you for upvoting my post! I really appreciate it!

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mayifiestas (73) 3 years ago

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https://hive.blog/hive-103678/@gillians0302/simple-makeup-in-fuchsia-tones-or-or-maquillaje-sencillo-en-tonos-fucsia-or-or-by-gillians0302

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suzilove (48) 3 years ago

It's well, thank you for your vote

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logiczombie (66) 3 years ago

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mayifiestas (73) 3 years ago

Greetings I wanted to know if there is a problem with my account, before it was cured and now no, I do not know what happens.

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realitavshaluan (58) 3 years ago

Thanks you for u like my post. I'm very happy, I wish u always success

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omarrojas (74) 3 years ago

Dear @smartvote , it is appreciated that you always give positive votes to my publications related to Yoga, so I feel fully committed to continue doing it better. Thank you for your affection and evaluations. Receive warm greetings and thanks from the city of Puerto Ordaz in Venezuela. Successes for you. With affection @omarrojas