Anyone who has been following me here on Steemit.com has likely realized I'm a sucker for tinkering and building cool new services for our community / ecosystem. I love to STEEM.
Recently the STEEM seed node and faucet which I built at STEEM.GLOBAL had a few users take it upon themselves to create +200 accounts in an attempt to get a larger share of the daily free STEEM I give away to the faucet users. It was known to me this was a possibilty and I'd hoped that the "honour system" would keep people from doing as such. However the honour system doesn't seem to work on the internet and in light of these few users grabbing more than a handful of STEEM massive changes of how the faucet runs needed to be implemented. In a later post I will outline the changes as well as better explain how to use the new design.
Honour Among Thieves
It's well documented in our history that if given the opportunity to exploit a system for their own gain most humans will gladly do so. The rarity of a person returning their ill-gotten loot is somewhere up there with unicorns or hot women that cook and clean.. BUT, former STEEM faucet exploiter @writeratheart who managed to make well over 50 accounts and grab roughly $5.00 USD worth of STEEM with his multi account endevours blew me away by actually apologizing and offering to return the STEEM they got by skirting the daily limit using their accounts. You impressed me with this admittance and apology @writeratheart.
If you need that $5 worth of STEEM to feed yourself or pay looming expenses you are welcome to keep it but I'd prefer next time that if you are hard up that you just ask.
The Way The World Works
While I might not be able to change human nature one thing I can do is change the way my faucet system works in order to try and protect it from those who would take more than they are supposed to, which is essentially explioting a good thing and my kindness which pisses me right the f**k off. Hopefully with the new method of operation the faucet isn't attacked.
Rather than just a sign up and get STEEM free-for-all as the previous design was STEEM.GLOBAL users will now have to purchase a 30-day Fauceteer subscription in order to gain access to the faucet. Another change is that rather than pay out once per a day instead now every hour the faucet will pay out to valid Fauceteer subscription holders.
The STEEM.GLOBAL Fauceteer supscription will be affordable for everyone wishing to get hourly STEEM paid to them without even logging in but should deter people from making large numbers of multiple accounts. Current price is 1 STEEM for 30 days of STEEM at 0.005 STEEM earned per an hour. In the future this amount may change but as this service is intended as a faucet it will always be profitable to Fauceteer subscription holders, as per the original vision of the project. I apologize for any inconveniences caused by this.
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