I had to revisit this post a couple of times, sign of a good post if you ask me. Well done on bringing this to light, I have shared this on the comments of other posts and I have also resteemed
I am so confused.... I think I get what you are saying, but I feel like you are purposely not directly saying it :P What's this all mean exactly...? exploiting steem?
I've thought for a while that there is a weakness in the steem rewards system that is open to abuse. While @steemcleaners can flag any spam accounts creating post rewards, they can't reverse curation rewards without destroying the rewards of the original poster (who could be anyone and entirely unrelated to the bot network). Of course the rewards are small, but get enough accounts and it soon builds up. My guess is that is where the SP is coming from, although like you say, more analysis would be useful.
hey @miniature-tiger, thanks for your remarks! Without a deeper look it's all speculation, but it's indeed one option. However, if it were curation results, I'm wondering why they would power them down to the minimum and cash out. Wouldn't the network get more and more powerful by leaving the SP in the workers...
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I wonder when it will reach the point where the entire ship sinks. That threshold may not be too far off, considering the proliferation of bot-activity I've seen in my short time here.
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I had to revisit this post a couple of times, sign of a good post if you ask me. Well done on bringing this to light, I have shared this on the comments of other posts and I have also resteemed
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I am so confused.... I think I get what you are saying, but I feel like you are purposely not directly saying it :P What's this all mean exactly...? exploiting steem?
I have the "feeling" somebody is gaming the system but can't prove it up to now. That's why I can't make the statement you were hoping for :)
Nice analysis @crokkon!
I've thought for a while that there is a weakness in the steem rewards system that is open to abuse. While @steemcleaners can flag any spam accounts creating post rewards, they can't reverse curation rewards without destroying the rewards of the original poster (who could be anyone and entirely unrelated to the bot network). Of course the rewards are small, but get enough accounts and it soon builds up. My guess is that is where the SP is coming from, although like you say, more analysis would be useful.
hey @miniature-tiger, thanks for your remarks! Without a deeper look it's all speculation, but it's indeed one option. However, if it were curation results, I'm wondering why they would power them down to the minimum and cash out. Wouldn't the network get more and more powerful by leaving the SP in the workers...
Good point. It's a puzzle!
A bit like @nanocheeze here too. I think you are into something interesting but I can't quite figure it out, yet!
I might be in touch to lend a hand studying some of these accounts if you wish?
Keep it up inspector @crokkon 👍🏾
exactly, I still fail to see the big picture. Thanks for offering help, I'll contact you on discord ;)
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Yet another example of gaming the system.
I wonder when it will reach the point where the entire ship sinks. That threshold may not be too far off, considering the proliferation of bot-activity I've seen in my short time here.
Sad, but true.
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