Attention Members, Please Read This Important Announcement!

For transparency purposes, many of you may ask why you are not receiving a vote from the booming program. A while ago we received a letter from booming (our curator for a month) this time we choose to discuss this publicly, so that matter about its curation support will be understood by all.

(start of the letter)
Here are the rules of booming support, kindly read:

1. Authors cannot have their posts submitted more than twice a week.
2. The posts offered to us must be #steemexclusive.
3. Posts that have already been upvoted by @steemcurator01 or @steemcurator02 will not be eligible for additional @booming votes.
4. Booming also can support the contest post from your community account and help to build your community SP, you can nominate them, 3-4 times a week may be suitable.
5. Users who are using upvote bots can not be voted by booming. (If they want to use them on posts outside the community that would be their choice, but ideally not for posts in the community)
6. Any evidence of plagiarism or abuse will result in a community being dropped from this support program.

And any problems please tell us.
Thanks!
(end of letter)

We will just discuss these two very important matters,

On no. 5 -as you have seen the discussion is about delegating to bots, still, it is up to you if you follow them by undelegating your delegations to the so-called “bots” or you will continue. There are registered communities that offer votes almost the same as those who are outside the Steemit Team. You have all the right to decide on what to do with your account.

On no. 6- Seems some people don't understand why our community is doing some works against plagiarism and we even received some provocation for those who are caught. To remind you, we don't directly call your attention without any proper evidence, and we've been observing your post before we give you notice. Bear in mind that we don't need to compromise our community just to protect or cover your wrong act. Does the community need to suffer? Please understand that we should strictly implement this rule for the benefit of many.

As well as self-plagiarism. Although you cannot be called a "thief", it is still prohibited. You can't post your previous post somewhere (other social media blogging site) and then post it again making it appear brand new. It is also called "duplicate publication" and it is prohibited. We still have much more to know and learn. Let's just follow the rules given and avoid what steemit forbids.

We should be aware of how tough the competition is in applying for support. That is why we need to follow the given rule. Hoping for your compliance with this matter.

The Steemit Philippines Team,