i checked further, it's always the same collection of accounts upvoting these comments, some of them are high-profile steemit whales like the dollarvigilante... pretty fishy!
It is a pretty standard way of doing things for a long time. There was a lot of trouble getting votes at all for a long time, because the whales only voted for a limited number of accounts, while minnow votes counted for nothing. Curation guilds where formed so that people could band all their votes together and spread votes out to more people. A lot of the guilds use streemian.com as a service that allows them to create voting trails.
Now we are reaching a different stage where user growth is starting to accelerate. The guilds are changing the way they do things, some guilds are ceasing to be. Accounts can also delegate steem power now, so that has made some parts of that process redudant.
Change man. That is all it is. :-) Eventually all this will be a faded memory and mean nothing after an influx of a hundred thousand people.
If you look at the account's comments... they all have roughly that number in upvotes. Pretty sure there's some bots/fake-accounts at work.
Wow you're right! I didn't even notice that lol.
I don't know if I'm impressed or disappointed.
i checked further, it's always the same collection of accounts upvoting these comments, some of them are high-profile steemit whales like the dollarvigilante... pretty fishy!
I was advised that I should delete this post. I will in 5 mins since I don't want to risk any negative consequences....
Why? For revealing some whale collusion that's going on?
wooot? now this is getting interesting!
People are upvoting comments without looking at the post.
I didn't know that was possible lol.
It is a pretty standard way of doing things for a long time. There was a lot of trouble getting votes at all for a long time, because the whales only voted for a limited number of accounts, while minnow votes counted for nothing. Curation guilds where formed so that people could band all their votes together and spread votes out to more people. A lot of the guilds use streemian.com as a service that allows them to create voting trails.
Now we are reaching a different stage where user growth is starting to accelerate. The guilds are changing the way they do things, some guilds are ceasing to be. Accounts can also delegate steem power now, so that has made some parts of that process redudant.
Change man. That is all it is. :-) Eventually all this will be a faded memory and mean nothing after an influx of a hundred thousand people.
Thank you @seablue for the detailed explanation! It seems this place is always evolving. Looking forward to the next stage :)