Thanks you for pointing out pilgrimtraveler / exploretraveler. There's actually more accounts employed and they are doing more than upvoting each others comments. I call them the Gentry gang. They are a family of bloggers but have now become what I would like to call a clique of corporatized self-interests that engage in self and circular voting. I have flagged a # of PT's posts and confronted the voting patterns noted with no response.

As you may note, there is a lack of quality that substantiates $100+ in rewards on many of the posts but the self voting, circular voted and use of many bid bots is what allows them to achieve this "perception" of quality.

They will upvote their own posts 100% and toss their followers a few 10% votes in order to keep them commenting / and coming back for more for the scraps from the table. This commenters lend legitimacy to their activity but, if one is more discerning, you can see through the charade.

I have watched them do this for some time and hope that one day a good whale will put them all in their place for this ill behavior which unfortunately is incentivized on this platform. Look at the number of bid bots. I am not a fan of bid bots at all and this is just excessive. This is on a exploretraveler post.

Thank you for this post @isacoin.