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RE: Looking into bid-bot/exchange look-alike accounts, finding a 460 account botnet
Steem should block all those accounts, send them a private memo explaining why, and how to contact steem via the email, then request a phone number from the individual and let them know they will receive a call back with in 48 hours of receiving their phone number. They are not likely to have 460 phones, and are unlikely to receive phone numbers for verification purposes from the scam listers. Inform them that failure to comply will result in account being terminated. Problem solved, 3 people 3 days of work.
naa, that's not going to work that easy ;) There is no way to block an account. And that's a central feature of Steem, not a bug. Once an account is created, there is no control option from Steemit. The accounts should not have been created in the first place, but I guess Steemit is taking a trade-off between approval effort/checks and user perception. Human users waiting long for an account or having to undergo complex verification procedures may limit the growth more than the damage from some others gaming the system. But I'm only speculating here, I have no insights on the account creation/ user verification process.
It is a double edged sword, damned if you do, damned if you don't. I guess the only way to solve the issue is for @adm to downvote each and everyone of them into oblivion like they did bernie to minus 16, those that complain can be called real accounts and be removed from oblivion if they verify with a phone number. Of course being -16Rep didn't really hurt bernie much.
...but you can downvote only those accounts who post. And even then the reputation only controls the visibility in condenser, not the existence or the votes/posts/funds/curation rewards of those accounts...
Which is why the down vote should be to the voter, not the person receiving the vote. A person should be able to click on the voter and the down vote remove the excessive reward gave, not remove a portion or all of the votes given. We know who gives he vote, we know what account the vote is from, so why the resistance to change code to down vote the vote owner?