*Dearest flock,* *In these dark days of vote buying, witness vote buying and trading, voting circles, and content being largely irrelevant, we thought it would be useful to post our eleven guidelines for a last time, before we give up altogether.* Here they are:

The Eleven Guidelines

*You may wonder what you can do to make this a better place and offer some counterbalance to the skulduggery going on, preferably without getting retaliatory flags and dying a noble Steemit death.* *To help you think about this, or rather think for you, as you want us to do, the Church of Piglet is kindly providing you with these eleven guidelines:* * Focus on and vote for those you like and/or who provide content that interests you; * Don't follow the rich just because they have big wallets; * Unfollow all vote buyers; * Check for ghost followers who can't be arsed to curate and unfollow them; * Mute those on the trending page you feel are being grossly overpaid or otherwise annoying; * Mute schemers, reward pool rapists, vote-for-voters, circle jerkers, in-crowd free-wheelers, and the like; * Mute sycophants shamelessly sucking up to the big wallets in the comments; * Flag comment spammers; * Support whales who still care, and vote for witnesses who still care and who didn't buy or traded their votes; * Provide the best content you can; * Read like you want to be read, and curate like you want to be curated.

Maybe someday *making money with content* will be possible on a more even level with *making money with money,* even though Steem and Steemit aren't currently set up for it. If you follow these guidelines, you are at least doing your bit to make this a better place.

Resteem this for a free blessing, and go in peace!

And remember: it is all up to you, nobody else will make things better (except me, of course, your guiding light).

A full membership of the Church of Piglet requires a substantial donation. Donations will be used to fix our Learjet; what is left will be delegated to causes we like. *Kind regards,* *The High Priest of the Church of Piglet, Holder of Truth, and Keeper of the Ivy Staff.* ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPfjctkHnsxSbbaBSTDzJjBxQMfoBVY6cCmvHP4Dopfzi/ocrdu.jpg) *^{Image by Katharsisdrill}*