Dear Fellow MET Community Members,

It is really wonderful how quickly our community has grown in the past. As you might already know, MET's mission is to foster a community of business-minded intellectuals and encourage engagement in discussing various useful and interesting topics. Our Curation Team works heavily to find and reward those who write and/or share valuable business-related content. You can see a summary of this in our regular weekly reports, these also reflect the type of content that we consider useful - and you can also see how many great posts are written each week!

I am really proud of our community!

We have published a post earlier about how to write a good MET post, so if you haven't seen it, please check it out here, @immortal-tongue did a great job to summarize the most important details for you.

Unfortunately, we sometimes experience that curation is misunderstood and some people tend to believe that their post will surely be rewarded if they use the #met tag. There are community members banging on our door and claiming a reward. There are others who tend to steal ideas from the internet and publish it as their own. These type of behaviours are annoying and are absolutely not acceptable! We have to emphasize at this point that

MET does not support plagiarised content in any ways.

You may share useful information or use pictures and images you haven't taken personally but in each case

you have to indicate the original source!

Yes, we take the effort and check each and every post, so it is not worth counting on us being too busy or tired not to do so!

New rules for black-listing

Earlier we just put someone caught plagiarising on the black-list and refrained from rewarding him or her. But we would like to offer the chance of learning and adjusting his or her behaviour to everyone here, therefore we have decided to revise our regulation and make more specific and clear rules for black-listing.

Therefore today we clear everyone from the blacklist and apply the new rules in the future.

So here is what we have come up with:

1. Do not plagiarize!
2. In case we catch you providing content that is not yours (without indicating the source), we will always make a screenshot and save it for future reference (just in case there was a dispute about it) AND we add your name on the black-list channel on the MET Discord with the date of the offense.
3. Your account will be black-listed for a month, which means that you cannot receive any rewards from the @met account.
4. During this black-list period, your account will be constantly monitored. In case you produce at least 5 posts that are non-plagiarized, then you will be removed from the black-list after the one month is over. (In case you do not have 5 posts during this one-month period, then your name will be removed anytime later - as soon as you have the 5th non-plagiarized post.) Every time a plagiarized post is produced it should reset the count!
5. In case you are caught plagiarizing again then you will be black-listed for two months and will have to produce at least 10 non-plagiarised posts in order to be cleared from the list.
6. After the third offence, your account will be black-listed FOREVER - which means that you will not receive any rewards from the @met account in the future. After the third offence, you cannot be cleared from the black list.

So to sum​ up: please stop at point 1 and DO NOT PLAGIARIZE!

We are all interested in your valuable thoughts, ideas and experiences! You have enough to share, you don't need to steal ideas and content from others!

What is the Morte et Tributa (MET) Community?

MET is being established to provide professionals and intellectuals with a central hub to which they can share valuable, general business-related knowledge and increase awareness of the cryptocurrency regulation that affects individuals and businesses world-wide. Furthermore, it is our hope to empower everyday people by assisting them understand the laws in their jurisdiction to better protect themselves from legal repercussions.

The @met account will be used to advocate and foster a community of individualists that will analyze and critique the current state of business, crypto and non-crypto regulation and how it affects each individual state, province, country etc. In a time of regulatory uncertainty, it is of utmost importance to advocate for a regulatory framework which incentivizes innovation. If you would like your posts promoted by the @met Whaleshares/Smoke/Steemit account, make sure to tag your posts with #met.

Who Should Join

As mentioned earlier, we are looking for forward-thinking business people who will be willing to engage and help the community grow. Startup founders and enthusiasts, business professionals, crypto enthusiasts and traders, SME business owners, and everyone that hopes simply learn about business. The @MET community is a hub where knowledge is freely shared for all by all, so we encourage members to create valuable business content that pertains to businesses or cryptocurrency. Conversations can ensue from these posts that may lead to regulations and policies.

So, MET is for everyone with a business mind, that hopes to either impart knowledge or wants to learn about the business landscape of different societies from members who reside in different parts of the world.

What You Stand to Gain

We recognize that community building can be a daunting task and, for that reason, we have put in place the right incentives as a way of rewarding individuals who create quality business content across MAS-chain platforms, using the MET tag accounts.

Also, we reward individuals who make efforts to grow our Discord community by providing MET tokens to those who invite friends to join in! Also, by engaging in tasks created/sponsored by @MET, individuals will earn more MET tokens these include: winning competitions, participating in initiatives, and by simply being being a valuable member to the MET community.

What are MET Tokens?

MET are cross-chain tokens backed by the MET account's whalestake/steempower/smoke power. These tokens provide holders the ability to reward their posts with the MET account, as well as share the post to the MET Whaleshares account feed for all the community to see. MET tokens are only given to people who: Participate in Challenges, Win Contests, and do other things of value for the community!

MET tokens are on BitShares! So, please make sure you have a BitShares/OpenLedger account to receive and send them for rewards/shares on your Whaleshares/Steemit/Smoke posts!

The MET tokens currently are only operational on the Whaleshares platform, but will soon be available on Steemit and Smoke