I've read about some particular user, who is most likely behind those accounts and he is targeting people using SBI (steem basic income). Are you perhaps using this service?
I'm not interested in "pay-back" actions, this is some really weak behavior trying to get back at someone who has placed a downvote imo, and I know it's part of this platform here to allow for downvotes.
Unfortunatelly there is many users who abuse their downvoting abilities, without any ways of countering their actions :/
"teaching" someone a lesson that has used the wrong tag or because someone simply didn't like what someone else has shared for whatever reason.
not only that. by downvoting you're also disagreeing with all those who decided to upvote particular content in the first place. and downvoting is destrying their curation reward.
I will share your post with our small @project.hope group and hopefully it will bring your publication some extra visibility.
Upvote on the way,
yours Piotr
Hello Piotr,
thank you very much for your thoughtful comment! (I don't know why I felt the need to place thoughtful here... they always are! ;-)).
It's a dilemma imo. I would fight to protect the right of this user to voice his opinion even if I'm not sharing his belief.
So, I will just agree to disagree with him! Yes I am using SBI because I liked the idea behind this project and I have enlisted quite a few fellow Steemians as well!
I don't think that this is as negative as bid bots or self-upvoting but he may have a point here that voting circles come close to such services and methods.
But, what is his plan here? To penalize all that are regularly upvoting content of befriended authors? Well, if so he has a lot to do because I guess that the majority of upvotes are distributed in such a manner because others won't even get the visibility on their content if not from befriended/followed accounts I'm afraid.
I'll just accept this and move on I guess! If he sees the need to downvote my stuff because I am using SBI... so be it.
Cheers!
Lucky
Hello Piotr,
I've dug a little deeper to find out which accounts support this guy and his crusade.
Very interesting to take a look on the delegations structure of this account.
https://steemworld.org/@mmmmkkkk311
I wonder how many people that are struck by his downvotes think about his attack surface since he isn't posting anything and might be immune to downvotes in that regard.
What would be more obvious than striking those who are supporting him?
Hmh... I won't do that though... but I'd love to hear what other by him targeted accounts think about his actions I've dropped an comment in that matter on one of the last SBI articles as well.
Cheers!
Lucky