before the weekend I stumbled upon a post from @therealwolf where he promoted a new service of a layer upon the steem blockchain he had designed.

SMARTSTEEM has arrived

read the original post here

Basically for people that write decent content in a regular fashion and do not

• spam
• beg for upvotes
• make nonsense comments in the hope of an upvote

So this angle is such that you can get upvotes from the system but only if you have been allowed based on a smartscore

SmartScore is a rating system which consists of 5 key-attributes:
Quality (of the Posts)
Value (for the reader - given through the Posts)
Uniqueness (of the Posts)
Motivation (of the User)
Effort (from the User)

and this score is given to the people that apply on a manual basis by a moderator

Once you have been accepted you can deposit some SBD in your smartsteem account and that can be used to buy upvotes. In theory those would be OK since they are only used for "quality steemians".

I am really loving this idea since that would allow for me to give rewards to others that I can reasonably assume are good Steemians and can also sell my upvote to them without worrying to much.

here is a post on howto smartsteem

This is another angle to the furious debate going on concerning the validity of upvote services like @randowhale, @minnowbooster, @boomerang and all the others out there. A lot of them were/are used to promote junk content purely for financial gain without actually even pretending to bring something to the Steemsphere.

But that is also a bit of my worry about this system. It feels like painting over the mold or sweeping the filth under the rug. This feels a bit like it might be a cosmetic thing that does not solve the underlying cause since the spammers and their like are still here. They are not gone even though they are now harder to see. What do you think about this? Am I wrong here or is this not relevant?

I am really looking forward to testing out Smartsteem and seeing what else they come up with and I feel honored to have been accepted already. I hope that this will be a worthwhile addition to the Steem blockchain.

So in the end, it does not eliminate the spam but does make sure that you do not sell your votes to them without knowing.

If you feel that you post regular good content and want to apply just go to https://smartsteem.com

pic from here