People Are LITERALLY stealing from Steemit and people honestly working on here.
In case if you don't know, there are over 1700 accounts involved with draining steemit's reward pool. Right now, things are getting a little out of hand, and something DOES need to be done.
According to @sherlockholmes, his accusation is:
"Randomly scanning the blockchain for suspicious activities, a chain of votes on a seemingly innocent spam comment caught my eye. 19 votes from accounts with random-syllable usernames on a days old comment on a month old post.
Someone's clearly spamming for profit. I really did not expect this to lead to such an extend as it did, though!"
Excerpt from @sherlockholme's article: https://steemit.com/steemit-police/@sherlockholmes/case-7-raping-the-reward-pool-with-1700-accounts-things-are-getting-serious
This really shows that something suspicious is going on...But if thats not enough, check out what else he said.
Here are @sherlockholme's findings:
"Observing the activities over the past few days I was able to connect a huge network of more than 1700 accounts involved in this industrially scaled farming operation! And the number is still growing!
It will be impossible and boring to describe how I dug into this chronologically, so I shall describe the situation structurally:
There are hundreds and hundreds of accounts doing exactly what I had witnessed in my "Accusation" above. These accounts transfer their rewards over to a few hub-accounts, these accounts then function as an extraction point for the ill-gotten gains, transferring the accumulated money out of the platform."
Excerpt from @sherlockholme's article: https://steemit.com/steemit-police/@sherlockholmes/case-7-raping-the-reward-pool-with-1700-accounts-things-are-getting-serious
This is just crazy, and something really needs to be done about this or it can really screw up steemit, but there is a bot @sadkitten which has been flagging that spamming accounts which is helping keeping it under control, I do believe there are also a few other bots doing the same as well, so hopefully we can end this A.S.A.P.
Resteem this to get the word out and expose these thieves!!
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Its a problem and ive basically put a hold on blogging until its sorted as there is too much rewarded spam and too little rewards for bloggers.
I agree, we spend hours writing blog posts and we earn just pennies and then there are spammers who make a few dollars just by making a spam comment.
And in recent days I have heard many a good Steemers complain about spammers and how it is demotivating everyone.
really? That is one huge number, and we all should adress it if we ever found one.
Check out @sherlockholme's post, he listen some of the found users in which you can take action on.
https://steemit.com/steemit-police/@sherlockholmes/case-7-raping-the-reward-pool-with-1700-accounts-things-are-getting-serious
Amen! Bot vs Steemians (Part 1).
I totally agree.
Not only do they destroy the original threads. They also steel money becauze they don't produce anything of intereset accept leach on other ppls post.
I think Steeem will haw to to something about the reward system and the tag system soon.
@idgit, i see people who copy and paste and spam so much and i cant flag them all because last time i did my power went down to 15% and i couldnt vote pretty much for a few days
Great info. Highly rEsteemed.
Perhaps the Whales like @sneak should put their efforts here,
https://steemit.com/steemit/@sneak/new-personal-policy-flagging-all-zero-value-add-vote-follow-begging-comments
... Instead of the threats they're spewing.
Thank you for sharing. SteemON!
It is, indeed, a huge issue that must be addressed. Fortunately, the community is responding with countermeasures. In the meantime, we ALL have the power to flag spam when it appears on our posts-- the thing about this botnet spam votes is that their weight is so tiny that we can usually remove any rewards and hide the comment with a simple 3-5% weight flag.
For sure! I think this problem should be weeded away in due time.
For the love of ...
Why do people do this man!
Upvoted
Good post I agree
@alex-icey, this is a huge issue also the fact that people are doing upvote for upvote which degrades the amount of good content that gains upvotes, there needs to be restrictions put on accounts if they spam or post copy and pasted content.
yeah, another great problem is the beggars and spammers of steemit...its becoming more common than people actually making legit content.
I resteemed it.
thanks, appreciate it!