RE: Exposing the "Steemit Defense League" - Bought Accounts on Microworkers w/Screenshots
Thank you for sharing this information!
I just have one question about SP delegation to these accounts.
Some of my friends could not register on Steemit. After 3 weeks of waiting their applications were canceled. One of my friends was able to register at the second attempt, and my friend artist, even at the second attempt was not able to get an account here.
My mom wanted to register on the site, and her application also received no confirmation. I was forced to buy an account for her. I did this through https://anon.steem.network/ recommended in one of the posts as a reliable service.
After buying an account for my mom, she had not +15 SP delegated, I bought SP for her.
Everyone who downvoted my post has a delegated +15 SP. I don't know if this Microworkers add +15 SP to new registered accounts. If no, therefore, I suppose that these f***ing accounts were registered through the steemit website.
And maybe this was happening at a time when my friends were trying to create accounts. The friend who received the account on the second attempt concluded that there is a certain waiting limit for registration, and if the application queue was not registered before the time limit expired, the application is canceled. Perhaps at this time, many new applications were submitted simultaneously, which created a large waiting queue, and so many people did not receive their accounts, while these bastards got their accounts for their dirty business. This is definitely an attempt to discredit the Steemit site and make people stop writing posts.
I expect these accounts were all registered through Steemit, Inc... specifically with the intention of getting the automatic 15SP delegation.
The purpose of using microworkers was that you can only open one account per phone number.... so you pay hundreds of people a few cents to create ONE account each, and then transfer it to you. Bingo! You have hundreds of accounts with 15SP delegations each. Which — at current prices — amounts to flags/upvotes on the order of 0.001 Steem at 100% strength.... and a fraction of that, at 6% or 8% or whatever is left after leaving 1000 flags.
Meaningless, by itself... but 300 of those set loose with a singular focus... it becomes "something."
=^..^=
@curatorcat is exactly right. Rather than buying accounts, you get other people to each make a single account. So all of those real people who make accounts are technically not doing anything wrong, and probably none of them knew they were contributing to anything negative. I think you don't get the delegation when you pay for a second (or more) account, but you do when it is your first account. So, technically, all of those were the first accounts for those people, so they got the usual delegation.