The Steem News @ 23 February 2023 : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 8

Steemit has announced the communities for Season 8 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge.

The Steem Watcher team have launched @anti.abuse.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about the Steem Watcher Portal, Nixiee, UPVU 2.0, SteemPro, Upex, Avle, Steem Alliance, an interview with @frafiomatale, and Contests on Steem...

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1. Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 8

Steemit has announced the communities selected for Season 8 of the Engagement Challenge.

Joining Steemit Crypto Academy on the challenge are Colombia-Original, Scouts y sus Amigos, Steem Cameroon, Steem Fashion & Style, Steemit Health, and Steemit Philippines...

• Steemit Update [February 22nd, 2023] : Steemit Engagement Challenge Communities for Season 8

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2. Look Out for @anti.abuse

@moh.arif and the Steem Watcher team have launched @anti.abuse...

@anti.abuse is an auto-bot that adds a comment to the posts or comments of blacklisted users, notifying them that they are on the abuse watcher blacklist.

@anti.abuse will be automatically downvoting repeat offenders who are placed on the blacklist...

• Introducing -anti.abuse

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@bountyking5 has published a tutorial guide for Detectives using the Steem Watcher Portal...

• Our Official SW Portal Guide Tutorial For Detective - www.steemwatcher.com

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Pennsif the Witness

After almost 2000 days on Steem I decided it was time to take my contribution to the platform to the next level.

I have therefore set up as a Steem witness... @pennsif.witness

If anyone would like to support what I already do, and what I am planning to do, by giving one of their 30 witness votes to @pennsif.witness I would be hugely grateful.

You can read my full witness announcement here...

• pennsif.witness Witness Campaign Post

@pennsif.witness has now reached #18. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.

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3. Nixiee joins the Delegation Club

Following in the footsteps of Upvu, Upex and Avle, another new delegation voting service has been launched.

Nixiee is a joint venture between top 20 witnesses @bangla.witness and @roadofrich.

This new service is offering 'upvotes of x20 or more everyday' for delegators.

The team behind Nixiee hope it will attract new investors to Steem...

• New Upvote Service "Nixiee": Delegate Steem Power and Experience High ROI

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4. Developer Updates

@realmankwon posts that a new feature for viewing the delegation history has been added to UPVU 2.0...

• [UPVU] Delegate In Information update in wallet

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Developer @faisalamin has added more new features to SteemPro including Curation Reports, Export Reports, and Undo/Redo on mobiles and tablets...

• SteemPro Updates, Curation Report, Export Report

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5. Delegation Voting Service Updates

@upvu has published a comparison of the Delegation Voting Services - UPVU, Upex and Avle...

• Comparison of Delegation Services based on data

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Avle backer @steem-agora has given further details about the comparative workings of UPVU, Upex and Avle...

• Avle/upvu/upex features and voting pool investment tips

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@happyberrysboy provides more analysis of the voting mechanics of Upex...

• The part about the 20 multiplier voting that upex says and the part about the Steam voting amount

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@joviansummer provides further insight into the inner workings of Avle...

• Calculation of avle share - problem of reflecting special addition rate

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Steem investor @jondoe continues his testing of the different services...

• Testing some of the SP delegation services...

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6. Steem Alliance

Community leader and Steem investor @rme is inviting all entrepreneurs and community teams to join the Steem Alliance Discord server to take part in discussions on ways to grow the platform.

The main areas of discussion will focus around marketing and promotion, development and investment...

• I invite every STEEMIT entrepreneur to join "STEEM ALIANCE"

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7. Interview with @frafiomatale

@ubongudofot has done another Showcase Interview this time with Italian sportsman and blogger @frafiomatale...

• The Interview Showcase 38 - Exclusive Talk with Italian Sportsman / Blogger

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8. Contests on Steem

@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem.

There are 79 contests in the latest list with over 750 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 23rd Feb 2023 - Win 750+ STEEM

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.24	23 Feb '23 7.31pm UTC
STEEM price	0.00000996 BTC	23 Feb '23 7.31pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#284	23 Feb '23 7.31pm UTC
SBD price	US$ 3.06	23 Feb '23 7.31pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	147,053 / day	23 Feb '23 7.31pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	274,112 / day	23 Feb '23 7.31pm UTC

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This is #493 (23 Feb '23) of this daily news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif ]