@Wang is now automatically up voting anything posted by @les-peters, resulting in an instant $10.00+ reward on each post this user makes.
This is also happening on a much larger scale across the board, (I.E Anonymous/ Xeroc ). I know most of us are aware of this issue, however, I do not believe the intent was that bots would automatically up vote content from specific users without reviewing it. This is the exact opposite of a decentralized platform and the community, as a whole, has to do better than this if want to encourage people to use our platform.
Thanks for bringing this to people's attention. A large part of Steem's success is going to depend on the whales being long term thinkers.
If the whales vote other whales and people they know, the site will die. Or grow a lot less than it should. They should be SUPER careful not to do that.
If whales act without vision bad things will happen. A lot really rides on the quality of the whales to be 1) rational 2) effective shapers of an inclusive community and 3) long term focused.
Short term greedy is the dream killer.
I've been saying Wang is a scam for a while and people only complained that I was being unreasonable. That account needs banned.
We need to continue to flag these user accounts as often as we can.
CAPTCHA eventually ruins everything. #security.
Even if you could find technical justifications for these kind of things, they're not very good PR wise for the platform. I think it can discourage a lot of people from participating.
I don't know if this is an issue.
The whole point of this platform is to give accounts with money voting power.
This is definitely an issue
I agree. its not decentralized. anyone with money can buy the whole trending feed.
Thank you for posting. QUESTION: should steemit let us steemers advertise using steem? Be sure to tell everyone you know to come vote here at: https://steemit.com/steemit/@kingtylervvs/if-steemit-ever-does-decide-to-advertise-there-is-only-1-way-it-could-work-in-my-opinion-debate
This is a democratic community decision.
Upvote the #steemengine for in house steemit poster ads!
You cannot ban any accounts unless they violate the terms of service. As far as I know there are no policies forbidding the upvoting of posts for any reason. If people are gaming the system, the system must adapt.
I'm polarized by this issue. I guess with a bot the creator of it is saying, "I trust you to create meaningful content" and will continue to do so until that proves false. I see both sides and understand how it seems unfair to others striving to create content of value generate less money than some others than are instantly upvoted. I hope it doesn't become the norm because that may prevent quality posters from taking time to write new content. Kind of a double edged sword, but I agree it should be talked about and debated more openly so everyone can speak their thought in a mature adult way.
@wang, what're you doin'!!!
Any update on this issue from the dev team?