Update summary

Increased base vote: Since the last new lease of steempower, our base vote has increased from 0.05 SBD to 0.13 SBD. This means that Geopolis can give rewards up to 0.63 SBD by itself, additional rewards from vote following will increase your total reward even further.

 

Stricter voting requirements: We understand that voting bots are usefull for boosting you posts, but when you get a total reward larger than 5 SBD from voting bots, we will no longer upvote your post. This was requested by the community and will increase rewards going to the people that do not solely write for profit.

What is Geopolis?

Geopolis is a community effort to encourage authors who write in the fields of global sciences. New posts will be filtered on certain tags (see below) and given an upvote if deemed worthy. Besides a way to promote quality content, is Geopolis a place where people with the same interests can connect on Steemit and Discord.

What posts will be upvoted?

Currently posts are filtered on the tags "geography", "geology", "anthropology", "ecology", "archeology" and certain branches of "history" but more subjects might be added to this list. Posts do not have to be solely scientific but must at least comply with the following requirements:

What does Geopolis offer?

Memberships

By default, any account posting in the categories mentioned above are able to receive an upvote worth 1/2 of a base vote. Base votes are currently worth 0.13 SBD and are expected to rise whit future delegations. When an author is a member of the Geopolis community it will receive bonuses according to their membership.

Thanks to our vote followers and curation trail, additional upvotes worth up to 1,5$ will be given to authors.

	Advantages	How to become one
Member	Upvote worth 3x base vote	A one time fee of 1 steem/SBD Transfer the membership fee to @geopolis and ask a moderator on discord for confirmation
Member+	Upvote worth 4x base vote	Be a member and upvote at least 5 posts written by Geopolis (Daily Field Notes)
Helper	Upvote worth 5x base vote	Be already a member(+) Delegate 50SP to Geopolis
Hero	Upvote worth 5x base vote and posts get resteemed	Be already a member(+) Delegate 100SP to Geopolis

Each week upvotes of members will be assessed to determine who enters the member+ category. This is currently done on Fridays. A very useful tool to automatically upvote posts written by Geopolis is steemvoter.

Transparency

The project tries to be as transparent as possible. For any questions you can reach out to the discord channel.

The initiative and actual selection of posts is done by me, @samve. For sake of convenience I will never upvote my own posts, but since I put effort in writing as well, please give my blog a look and follow me if you would like what you see 😉.

Upvoting and resteeming posts of Geopolis allows us to grow which will results in larger upvotes flowing back to the people creating quality posts = you. All rewards from posts by Geopolis will be used by the community to grow.

Join us on Discord HERE