Hello dear Steemians,

 

Today I wanted to highlight this issue that is happening first time since the Initiative of the Steemit Team and the Steemcurators of the Communities are working.

To give a bit of idea what I am taling about, the Steemit Team started the Initiative of Curating Teams on Steemit Platform so that users who applied to be Curators do support the users because we know our community members and it is easy for us to reward the people who hard working and probably are not seen.

Here is the list of teams for December:

https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steemit-update-nov-30th-2022-community-curators-for-december

 

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The whole idea is great and I am grateful for this gesture, that actually the Steemit Team is not really have to do but they just do it as a sign of a good will and also to keep the users active and reward them.

• During last few months on monthly basis there were 7 teams of various number of people selected and they were working together, they were given the posting keys of accounts*: Steemcurator03-08. Then after a month the users apply again and the names are mixed and matched into another 7 teams.

I do not know if in the past the keys were changed every time but obviously this time the keys were not changed and what is happening. Since today the 1st of December the other people using the curation keys but old team members still have the old keys and they are also working.

It is very tempting when it comes to rewards, isn’t it. That is very human, that we want to have something and if there is a chance to get it and still not to be fetched some people will do it.

 

This time the account Steemcurator07 was abused.

 

 

Starting from 06:35 according my Steemworld program time the account started to give multiple Upvote to many users on Steemit with 100% but also that varied from 60 to 100% it seems voted very random and that makes it difficult to isolate who did it.
 

!There were about 200 Upvotes were given within 2 hours! |

 

Obviously the suspicion will fall on the users who were using @steemcurator07 last month. Obviously the Steemit Team will investigate it and I really hope that the user who is abusing the account will be found and his name will be revealed to all the Steemit Community, because at the moment all 7 members will be under suspicion.
 

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Now the key has been changed and the Upvotes that are given will be withdrawn that understandably will drain the Upvote Power of the account that means many other users will not be voted for the next few days because to recharge it will take now several days.

 

What harm been cause by this action?

 

Doing that the anonymous user only made it worse for user on Steemit, it is like "Shooting yourself in the foot" it made worse for all the Curators who will be working, I only hope that the Steemit Team will continue his Initiative with the Curator teams and not decide to stop it.

When selecting the users, I know that there are conditions like:

• Reputation above 69
• SP 4500 and above

@steemcurator01, it does not automatically makes the user responsible if those two conditions are fulfilled. You know yourself, after getting few Upvote for couple of months from your account or SC02, the reputation is going up very quickly. The users collecting their Steem Power quickly too. But that does not mean that they are automatically good.

I know many responsible users who are on Steemit for a long time like started like me in 2017 but they post and do not have your visit that is why their accounts are still having less reputation.

I remember myself for me during old time to reach Reputation of 65 was few years.

I think you should reconsider that condition when choosing the Curators.

Also, it is important that we involve more users from Western countries because the financial stability and their income does not make them tempted. Many of them on Steemit for a long time too. They are on Steemit really for blogging and many happy to support users.

The other safety rule must be done regular:

• every month the posting keys should be changed

The other account @steemcurator04 was misused last night too, due to human error when the user forgot to log out with SC account and used it thinking that it is own account. That again make it difficult now for new curating teams.
 

 

Call for all Community Curators

 

Dear Curators, please be careful when curating and pay attention to following important aspects:

• Save SCXX account posting key somewhere save, so that if you share your computer with anyone else you do not give a reason to be tempted and using the account

• Posting Key should be deleted from Discord channel

• when Curating with SCXX accounts do not do any actions with your own or your community accounts. Close down everything else, that will eliminate errors

• Log out with SCXX immediately after you finished curating

• if you suspect that someone in your team is abusing account, you have to report to the Steemit Team. Because we do that in our real life then be responsible Curators

We all have to understand that we are harming ourselves with that and we may loose the privilege of supporting our community members. Please re-steem this post to give more visibility to help to raise the awareness of users

 

Message from @the-gorilla

 

https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@the-gorilla/rm7l58

 

Who knows who is acting behind hte account: silva#6188 on Discord

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