Steemit-Trail Conspiracy?!
Is somebody stealing votes?...Why are so many accounts upvoting the same weird content?!
This is a repost because the last post got very little attention...and I think that people need to know this...
So...my brother, @mckeown12 saw @worldofmusic's introduceyourself post and then responded to another of his posts. He noticed that this BRAND NEW ACCOUNT got $80+ for each of his first 3 posts...despite the fact that they have barely any views...so we decided to investigate a bit...we looked at who was upvoting when using https://steemd.com...
...And we noticed that the same accounts upvote together on lots and lots of posts...and that they seem to all be responding to @trail...
@worldofmusic posted 1 day ago...
@trail upvoted...along with EVERYBODY else...
It's not just these posts either...here's another example from a post by a completely different account! ( @gaming-stuff )
Step 1: Create a master account.
Step 2: Create a bunch of minion accounts.
Step 3: Write a script that handles all of your minions and monitors your master.
Step 4: With your master account, pick content that you deem worthy of your majesty.
Step 5: Upvote said content. Wait until your script to detects that you upvoted and sends your minions to upvote.
Step 6: Profit.
Bonus Step: Sell your steemit botnet service as a "post promotion".
Is this really what this is?!
If they're being sold, can you find any record of that?
I do not know if that is actually what is going on in your specific scenario, but based on the evidence you have provided, I wouldn't be surprised if that is what is going on.
I image this type of thing is more common than we realize. or maybe it is just starting. There may or may not be a record of it. If they are trying to keep a certain level of stealth to their operation, they will sell their service outside of steem for an alternative currency or some other arrangement. If they aren't being too clever, you can probably just trace their transaction history. If every author of every post that this army upvotes has paid sbd/steem for their service, you will likely be able to view everyone's transactions and just find the same account(s) that they each sent coins to.
To vote is human. To really, really, really vote; you need an army of minion bots.
Chink in the Steemit armour?
The more I think about it, the more interesting it becomes to me. I might write a proof-of-concept eventually. Wouldn't the bots be earning curation rewards as well? Overtime, the bots would grow stronger. lol
Kinda like a Wil Smith movie. Only with a better plot and acting.
lol
That's just it! Look at @trail's curation rewards! They're INSANE!
The plot thickens...I just noticed that a lot of the ____-trail accounts delegate most of their steem to @trail!
very good find!
I read a post the other day about kind of a 'double vote' attack if you will. You upvote until you are out of steempower, then delegate all of your sp to another account that then goes and upvotes everything again. I would love to see how it works when you have 50 accounts delegating SP after they vote. Have you checked the curation rewards of those accounts?
I checked it for @trail and they're making a lot