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Well, someone must have coded the bot. I myself have the knowledge to do it but find no use to creating hundreds of random Steemit-delegated accounts to downvote random people. Perhaps we should put them all in a blacklist and throw it to Steemit so that the delegation can be removed due to abuse.

That would be a good idea. Do you know how?

Make a series of queries to a witness node.

  1. Get a list of all votes made by SBI bots for a few months. It will take a while because they're a lot.
  2. Get a list of all the votes in all the posts where SBI bots have posted. It will take an even longer while.
  3. From that list of votes per post, grab all the essential information: SBI vote size, author name, list of downvote dates, percentages and maybe vote size (SP / weight etc.).
  4. There we can request any information from these downvoters, such as SP, vote size, how many posts do they downvote outside of the SBI list, etc.

These requests are actually pretty simple with steem-js or dsteem. It does take a little while to research what information is necessary and the format with which the blockchain sends information, etc., so even though it's extremely simple conceptually, it could take a few (4-5ish) hours to code.


Perhaps a simplified version without vote weights is a good start?

I get them even on posts I am not being upvoted by SBI. Not all are related to SBI. They appeared after HF22.

I've been talking with a friend about maybe building a visualisation of Steem's vote network, see where things go and make some graphs. It's hard, though, and we've got a lot of stuff to do already. But it would be fun to have a few lists of the troublemakers and the hidden vote markets.

I wouldn't bother with them. They're simply nobody for this paltform and will annoy you if you give them too much attention. I have almost daily such downvotes and learned to live with them.

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