Please read this post to understand why I started generating this report.
| Username |# People Unfollowed on 9th Aug |
|----------------|-----------|
| jackmiller | 2421 |
| hador | 1744 |
| carverdelic | 1054 |
| kassimbass | 697 |
| fakire1sadaka | 344 |
You are free to make your own judgement, I am just empowering you with information.
How this technique works
1. Follow thousands of people in hope that they will follow back in return
2. Some people do follow back (in-fact a lot do!)
3. After a few days or weeks simply unfollow all users you had followed
This makes their followers numbers more than following and to a newbie user visiting the profile, it seems that these are really popular users.
Steemit is very different from the typical Social Networks and we all know it. With this report, I am not trying to point any fingers and you may have legitimate reasons to unfollow people in thousands! I am just trying to bring more transparency in the platform. The aim is to make aware and discourage people from using such practices which otherwise work perfectly on other closed Social Platforms!
This report has been generated using @arcange's amazing www.steemsql.com service.
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I'm not sure I agree with you on this @gyanibilli. One reason I deleted 500 or so follows was to clear my feed from posts I either had no intention of reading or - more likely - not the time to treat each one as properly as I would like. My feed is much more manageable now and I'm seeing the kind of posts I wish to see. There was no nefarious motive behind it, just good housekeeping (to my mind at least). Singling out and highlighting people who you believe to be using bad practice is wrong unless you get their side of the story first. There many be many reasons why they did what they did. Please don't do this.
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yeah thats another reason why I deleted many followers, now im trying to keep my feed clean with content I like and autors that I think deserve my new curator journey, I will add more people for sure but I will not follow everything like before :P
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Thanks for your comment @maninayton. I appreciate your point of view and agree with it. There may be a very valid reason for all the unfollows. This is exactly what I say every time in my report and for that reason I have never tagged any person in my report.
People are free to visit these profiles, check their history and make their own judgement. It is definitely possible for some with absolutely clean intentions getting caught in this report but if you look at my previous reports.. just look at last 10 reports - you'll see a lot of users who are popping up in every other report. Moreover, the number of unfollows go in thousands, I have seen as big as 35,000 unfollows in a single day for just 1 user.. who can justify that.
There is also another serious outcome of people trying to gain followers using these practices. There are users who are exploiting the gullible.. just visit www.resteem.com and you will know what I am talking about.
Again not pointing any fingers but I feel that if this not kept in check, it can easily ruin the platform!
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Hi, @gyanibilli. Ok, I see your point especially with the example you cite and the guy doing the resteem thing. I honestly cannot see how the platform can curb this behaviour except for educating new users to it (like you're doing - see! You have a convert!) and hoping they will learn that quality is better than quantity. It took me a few months to come to that realisation myself but my feed has thanked me ever since. Good luck in your endeavours.
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Thanks @maninayton. Happy to know that I could make my motives clear :) There are ways which can curb this behaviour.. the most simple would be to restrict the number of Unfollows one could do in a day.. Sites like 500px do that.
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What a good idea. Might be worth floating it in front of the guys who run the platform.
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Well, a few people had tagged this report to the right people I guess but didn't hear anything since then.. I am going to keep trying nonetheless :)
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Every bit counts. Keep at it.
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I admit did it some days ago I unfollowed lots of people but im new and dont want to abuse it, just did it because didnt know how it all works and now I want to become a great curator so im trying to make a list of nice people.
Anyway i like what you do nice job :)
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Thanks @kromtar for your support. Unfollowing once in a while is no big a deal. It becomes a problem when people start abusing it!
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Stone them!!!!!
Jk
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Nowadays you get a lot of junk feed from people who aren't taking this seriously 😒. It helps to filter out important followers who produce content.
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