I've come across a user who is upvoting his own comments to a post over 1 year old and keeps replying to himself and upvoting a .
That's it, his reply is a . and he upvotes himself between $3 to $1 each .
This is the user here https://steemit.com/@paco
Here is one post with over 400 comments and self upvotes https://steemit.com/steemit/@paco/power-up-meme-holy-batman
Here is another with 200+ comments and self upvotes https://steemit.com/art/@paco/discover-kevin-winger
Scum of Steemit
I have been an active user since the beginning of steemit. I been sitting here watching the rewardpool being taken advantage of daily, by circle jerks, delegation of steempower. Voting Abuse : is real and with my situation i wanted to expose it in the most simplest way possible. My method is called (dot minning) In fact do you think it's a coincidence that you found out my little secret? no sir, i was meant to be used as an example to showcase what is possible with little effort. Imagine 5000 accounts doing my dot mining system with delegated steem power..now that's a rewardpool rape. Do you think that this blog post made by blocktrades was done just in time that you discovered my selfvoting? it's all just a coincidence eh?
https://steemit.com/steem/@blocktrades/voting-abuse-and-ineffective-curation-a-proposal-for-blockchain-level-change
Trust me, i want this shit to stop as well. My account was not earned by blogging or self voting. I am one of the main accounts being funded from the start of steemit. Go ahead do your research....i have invested more then 80k into steemit. I was there at $4 to .16 cents. Delegation and self voting has to stop for this platform to grow bigger and brighter. Never judge a book by it's cover...i read that somewhere :)
On my profile, i wrote as my name (mining steem) i made it so obvious and i was actually begging to be discovered. I muted all my followers. I wrote on my description, not social - stay way. I was even asked questions by other users yet none reported me. I only earned about $300-$400 dollars doing this for a month or so. My jaw dropped thinking of wow, if new accounts with no followers and delegated power can do this undetected for month before being found. Crazy to think it can go even further with time. I would suggest new changes to the platform. I hope i have helped explained what i did and help steemit in the process. Happy to see this new app developed just in time. steemworld.org
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I know what it looks like. All we have to do is look at @dart and their 7500-10000 accounts with both delegated SP & older accounts with awarded SP. Close to 90k STEEM & 6k SBD withdrawn. And that's what I know about. I'm 99.9% sure they also used exchanges to hide transfers to unknown accounts to exploit minnowbooster. For all I know they still might be. I don't have time to keep on top of all the abuse.
You were reported to me in October actually. But you weren't spamming other users posts and I didn't have the SP to counter it. I forgot about you until it was mentioned to me and I dug into my notes and added the account to @mack-bot. Even flagging you know is a grey area and might lose me my delegation but I'm tired of it.
I primarily focus on accounts that are proxy self-voting with multiple accounts.
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Don't you worry. Your scam exploit of Steemit pool has been noticed and will be dealt with shortly.
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Now this is the response we have all been waiting for.
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I have been here for over a year and watched as well whales come from nowhere and do not share anything of value. Up until very recently, doing your own thing here like the comment farming was secretly considered #winning good job for showcasing this here and thank you for being the most unpopular user this month, at least it was good for learning.
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So why did you flag my other post once I pointed this out?
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I had to react to how they would react and find a way to continue. But from this experiment, now we know that only the community can expose it but cannot stop it. The rules need to be changed in the code. If i were them, i would just take my tokens to an exchange open a new account and start all over. There is always a way to continue. As @bl23c mentioned it, take away self voting in comments and leave it in blog posting only as its more obvious that way to see it happening. Allowing to post on older blog post was not allowed then and now it's being used as a tool to hide. If it were not for developers making new apps many falws would consume this platform.
Wealth is power unfortunate here in steemit as in real life. There has to be a solution for equality. I have removed my flag and I apologize. Also this was never about money, i have made my wealth in ethereum. When steemit was dropping in price it was a blessing as i switched to Ether and bought it at $8
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I agree with what Paco is saying here! Blame the rules!
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All self voting should be removed, period.
Congrats on ETH!
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Wowwww
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He couldn't be bothered giving you a full upvote, lol
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um, yea, we def need to get one of the "regulators" on this mofo. Sounds like a case for @berniesanders or @transisto
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He's been added to @spaminators list so he'll be getting his flags now.
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Good, I tried to submit to steemcleaners but not sure if done correctly, lol
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I see he's been flagging you because you were flagging him
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Haha, yes. He see's himself as correct.
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Ridiculous!! You've got a new follower now I like your attitude! :)
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Thanks, I may be new but I at least understand that type of behavior is not good for the group. He even went as far as calling me a troll for pointing out 95% of his votes were self votes. I had to look at what he was doing at that point and that is when I found the older post. Makes me wonder how much more will be discovered if we keep looking.
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Can we just disable the ability to upvote your own comments? It's nice that we're allowed to upvote our own blog post but why not end it there? Really? Do we really need an option to upvote our own comments? :P
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I'm the wrong person to ask. If it is an awesome reply I don't even care but he is literally upvoting a single .
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how the f did you even find him lol
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On another post where he gave the post .30 and all of his comments $1, lol
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Maybe he is tired to make a post ^^
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Or lives in a Loop... :)
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That's funny
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I left him a nice note. . :)
rawdawg (51)in steemit • 12 minutes ago
RE: Power up Meme :) Holy Batman
Hey paco the cocksucker. . WTF is up with all the self votes on a post 5 months old. . .I suggest you stop nipple nuts.
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What a fucking cunt!
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Agreed
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Thanks for raising awareness to this issue. this post has been deemed resteem & upvote worthy by your friendly @eastcoaststeem ran by @chelsea88 (not a bot)
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Woo, nice job Eroded.
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