BeerBot under attack from high rep accountsteemCreated with Sketch.

in steemitabuse •  7 years ago 

So yesterday I noticed on 100% downvote from a rep 71 account on a comment. Today I had a message waiting for me on steemit chat that my bot had received more downvotes. Sure enough checking steemd there they were:

3 100% downvotes from @crypt0 on comments made to inform people of the dangers of shortlinks during an ongoing phishing attack using short links. These are not flags to hide comments these are 100% flags. Flags like that on comments with no payout have one purpose: Destroy an accounts rep. So why would someone with a high rep want to destroy an account who's purpose is to protect the community by informing them of potential dangers of short links during a phishing attack using short links?

Attacking my bot actually supports the phishing attacker. Do we really want a high rep account supporting a scammer? Those people voting this guy for $75 a post (and his post are nothing but copy/paste youtube vids from his youtube channel) should re-evaluate your voting choices. Vote for people that work to support and help the community not those who are attacking it.

@adept @nanzo-scoop @kyriacos @bobbylee @ausbitbank @ellemarieisme @thejohalfiles @jonny-clearwater @nasgu I see you voting on almost all his posts. You may want to reconsider who you vote for after these actions.

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Just for the record... I've literally only voted for the guy twice ever.

Really? I checked voters on the last few posts of his and saw you more than once. Guess I just picked the right 2 posts :D

Yeah.
I went back and checked myself.
Two votes...ever.
Recent posts.
Odds are it was front-runner that voted.
I'm very consistent with my self voting.

My low power votes were only adding ~0.30 and were the result of my bot following another curators votes - I've unvoted , blacklisted the user from my bot and will review that curators other votes now..

I think talking to @crypt0 would most probably solve the issue. I've tried to get to talk to him more than once for other reasons but was never successful.