Totally agree with you, but it turns out with one hand we take, the other we give.

I agree, but it's all back to each of them

A solution could be collaborate with a whale and make the post with it's account as 99% beneficiary and have the whale commit to sending the value of the SP liquid form.

Steemit UI currently doesn't allow to set beneficiaries but this tool allows it. (haven't tested it)
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@steem-plus/steemplus-1-7-share-your-rewards-with-your-friends-beneficiaries-ideal-for-the-steemfest

Absolutely valid points, which I fully agree with. 

It would also be helpful if the Steemit interface had an option to add _beneficiary_ before submitting a post.

(PS: I took the liberty to DM you on steemit.chat, with a question about tis exact topic).

There should be a feature that shows that 100% is being transferred to X person. 
It would work great for collaborations - where you could guarantee another person is paid fairly for their work.

The more middle men there are the higher the propability of corruption. Id suggest to give real charities like The Papillon Foundation here on steemit a badge, maybe even an own tab that certifies them as such and only allow those and steemit staff members to fund rais

Good post !!! Good luck....


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I've wondered why, other than *decline payment*, all SP and 50/50 are the only options. Why not all SBD? Why not a slider bar to customize payouts? An all SBD option would be great for charity posts.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never understood the rationale behind the arbitrary 50/50 concept.

That's an important issue. I think the best idea is to create steemit accounts that are completely seperated from your own ones (like people also do when they're running a witness e.g.). Like that you are completely transparent, have clean open books and don't have to transfer money from one to another. That's at least how I am doing it with @dreamsofthocean. 

Generally raising money here to give it away then (outside the Steem eco-system) will per se weaken the value of Steem (in the same way as if you powered down money to finance your next vacation). That's why promoting Steem(it) in order to find new investors should be a high priority for all of us. 

Have a good day!

Want help in spotting those ?

This is hard sir, @steem-lagos is a community page based in Nigeria and we just heard of a lil girl in Australia who needs a spinal surgery of over $100k in cost, so are we going to get downvoted for raising funds to such cause?

If there was a way to send the SteemPower share of the reward, we would have done it; but we are not Devs or Techy team and this would be a hard blow on the Good intent we have sir!

Having raised over $150 toward various charities from my Steemit posts, I believe as long as the poster is upfront by stating clearly what percentage of rewards are to be given as donation should be sufficient for others to decide whether they will support the post with an upvote or not. 
If you disagree you are welcome to flag the post however this is a very negative move and could provoke a destructive flag war in which there are no winners, Especially the general Steem community. 
I believe Steemit should be a place of positive encouragement and support not vigilante action. 
I personally have used my own fiat currency to make donations which keeps steem locked up rather than putting downward pressure on pricing and in effect is the same as me powering up those funds. 
I agree with @surfermarly that stand alone charitable intitiatives should have their own account but even this is not without questions such as who controls the funds etc.
I post under an account of my own name and have nothing to hide. An anonymous vigilante flagging things they feel are against the ethos of Steemit will not help this community grow but will lead to its distruction. I witnessed many good Steemians walk away from this platform due to indiscriminate vigilante flag wars. Use your not inconsiderable Steem power positively rather than punitively.

Excellent move. Co-mingling of funds - personal with charitable - is a no no. And yes, I would have to think long and hard before I ventured an up-vote to any Humanitarian play where the distribution of funds was not clearly stated. And this would include Steem Power allocation as well.  Some of this may be resolved once the SMT is released. There will be a white paper soon on Oracles and Oracle QA's as part of SMTs where there can be "real world event confirmation" designed into the reward pools  built around incentivizing real world action".   

https://steemit.com/smt-oracles/@ned/the-smt-oracles-whitepaper-call-for-academics-modelers-and-deep-thinkers

word!

@transisto, this an important issue to consider... one of the things we run into here is *monitoring.* 

First of all, what constitutes legitimate fundraising? Obviously, formal non-profits might be a shoo-in, as is something like @surfermarly's project. But what about the band raising funds for its next production or travel expenses to a promising gig? What about someone's emergency medical expenses? 

Before you even start fundraising, should people be pre-qualified? With "communities" getting closer and closer on Steemit... if there is a "Charity" community, would there be requirements for membership? Should there be a separate charity monitoring account you have to send 5 SBD (or some amount) to, in order to have your proposal approved?

Percentages are tough to work with. There are lots of businesses that run "20% of sales will be donated to XYZ Charity" programs... here the percentage is clearly stated up front. I can go on eBay, list an item for sale, and designate that anywhere from 5% to 100% is designated for the charity of my choice.

Which brings me to the question of how hard it would be to hard code "charity posts" as part of the Steemit interface. If I choose to make something a "charity post," I HAVE to designate a recipient account other than my own account for the payout... like a mandatory "transfer before the fact." Both the SBD AND the SP would be credited automatically to the beneficiary. 

Just throwing some ideas out there.

AFAIK, kr-market project takes 25% of rewards. I was curious how it is possible. The secret is that the operator is buying Steem at the amount of 37.5% of total reward and distribute them and liquid SBD to the participants.

In sum,
Operator: 25% curation reward + 37.5% author (SP) + 37.5% author (SBD) - 37.5% STEEM (buying at exchanges) - 37.5% SBD (buying coupons to distribute)

I support a few off-chain charities via steem earnings - not via post rewards, but that might change in the future. If that does change then I would ensure the SP gets used for the benefit of the charity.
These causes, so far, have been using the steem logo during their work, so some credit comes back. Are those posts going to be okay in your mind?

Hello @transisto, i noticed these four accounts [here](https://steemit.com/@lays), [here](https://steemit.com/@aksdwi), [here](https://steemit.com/@askquestion) and [here](https://steemit.com/@funny-gifs) up voting bad content regularly with almost 600k+ steempower collectively, please do something about them they are drying up the steemit reward pool regularly to fullfill their greedy nature, here are some proofs of there greedy upvoting with links, 

[Shit comment link](https://steemit.com/persian/@ghasemkiani/english-idioms-425-at-all-events#@hassanabid/re-scipio-re-ghasemkiani-english-idioms-425-at-all-events-20171105t171026041z)

![Capture_2017_11_15_22_57_03_834.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPbyHFaLKdgHEDDw399zGgoFwdeHd1kRhetppSC1acwgy/Capture_2017_11_15_22_57_03_834.png)

[Another Shit Comment link](https://steemit.com/photography/@sakhone/colorchallenge-thursday-green)

![Capture_2017_11_15_22_49_09_299.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQme4yKbUoSH68T7R6nb2Jaz4uiqkMRxvVcW1r7nQWFW6yY/Capture_2017_11_15_22_49_09_299.png)

[Another Shit Comment link](https://steemit.com/photography/@afnanshahid/my-friend-charlie-wants-to-be-free-but-how#@afnanshahid/re-afnanshahid-my-friend-charlie-wants-to-be-free-but-how-20171113t073612710z)

![Capture_2017_11_15_23_08_52_959.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmf6y2gdVdqRa6pv5qZGWLCG1f93Dh9tnjCyWb6MYPxGe3/Capture_2017_11_15_23_08_52_959.png)

and not only that they are also upvoting their own posts every time with 600k sp collectively and they also get 5sbd and sell their full vote and i think two big account who is supporting all those greedy peoples is [here](https://steemit.com/@freedom/transfers) and [here](https://steemit.com/@elizabeth302) as far as i do my research they are sending 50sbd per 100k steempower daily towards main steem delegator.

Please sir stop them to upvote the shit contents they are destroying our beloved steemit.

very nice post..............
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