diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7f21a3e..d1fbf8f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='steem_tagbot',
-    version='0.0.8',
+    version='0.0.9',
     packages=["tagbot",],
     url='http://github.com/emre/tagbot',
     license='MIT',
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@
             'tagbot = tagbot.bot:main',
         ],
     },
-    install_requires=["steem_dshot", "nltk"]
+    install_requires=["steem_dshot", "nltk", "requests"]
 )
diff --git a/tagbot/bot.py b/tagbot/bot.py
index eed4da3..5b97e90 100644
--- a/tagbot/bot.py
+++ b/tagbot/bot.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from steem.account import Account
 from steem.post import Post
 from steem.amount import Amount
+import requests
 
 from tagbot.utils import get_steem_conn, get_current_vp, url, reputation, tokenize
 
@@ -116,6 +117,11 @@ def fetch_tag(self, tag, start_author=None, start_permlink=None, posts=None, sca
             scanned_pages=scanned_pages + 1,
         )
 
+    def in_global_blacklist(self, author):
+        url = "http://blacklist.usesteem.com/user/" + author
+        response = requests.get(url).json()
+        return bool(len(response["blacklisted"]))
+
     def start_voting_round(self):
         posts = []
         for tag in self.target_tags:
@@ -204,6 +210,13 @@ def start_voting_round(self):
                 )
                 continue
 
+            if self.in_global_blacklist(post.get("author")):
+                logger.info(
+                    "Post: %s is skipped since it's blacklisted globally.",
+                    post.identifier
+                )
+                continue
+
             self.upvote(
                 Post(post, steemd_instance=self.steemd_instance),
                 self.config["VOTE_WEIGHT"]