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RE: [solved] AM I A VICTIM OF VOTE STEALING? - perhaps your account has been also abused and you don't even know it ...

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Calm down buddy, no big deal here. That's because you're using buildteam auto upvote facility. One of their criteria is to make use of some of your votes to compensate their promotional post including steemsports and dlease, which is their subsidiary. All these has been spell out in the terms and condition of steemvoter. In order to fully remove yourself from the said "abuse", you may follow below:

https://app.steemconnect.com/revoke/@buildteam

And you'll be fully revoking all your authority from the said services. Meanwhile, I'd like you to review your posting authority in steemd. You may wanna consider to delete a few that you don't use anymore. Have fun.

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This is sadly not the correct fix as the votes happens on steemvoter.com, so to stop them would require to disable the account there. The @buildteam authority has nothing to do with this.

As informed by @thecryptodrive , yes the older version need to delete posting key stores in the database.

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The older version of Steemvoter is old tech which stores the posting key in a database, so the only way to disable it is to login and delete your account. It doesn't use Steemconnect auth.

Good morning. Oh wait, it's midnight at your place. Yes, totally forgot the older version need to put in posting key. Actually it's one of the safest way to authorize for votes trailing in my opinion 🤓 Sadly, not many of the world understand how precious that is.

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@davidke20
Thanks for these insightful observations. I know of steemd.com and consult it multiple times per day, to check for replies and upvotes. And when I check https://steemd.com/@crypto.piotr it looks like he has delegated posting authority to seven different entities. Is that correct? And giving someone/something one's Posting key allows them to vote with one's account?

Steemd will show those apps one have authorized ACTIVE key. And active key not only authorized for posting, also activate custom json for online scripting. Way much larger authority than simple voting authority alone.

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Oh yeah, that reminds me. A couple months ago I was looking at some little gizmo that let you compose your blog posts and mark 'em up and whatnot. But when I went to sign up for it, it wanted my Active key, so I dropped it like a hot potato. It seemed to me there was no reason for it to need any more than my Posting key.

It depends on the way a platform handles your posting authority. In #esteem app, you can choose to use 3 types of posting authority.

  1. By furnishing only posting key, you're strictly limited to authoring post, upvote and minor navigation

  2. By authorizing active key, you're strictly limited to he usage of wallet function. Back in the older version, I have always been using esteem as my convenient wallet.

  3. Master key, can use both. But if you lose your phone, good chance is you lose everything.

Now the latest version of 2.1 will be using active key authority. Can handle both wallet and posting function. It's just the way how it's being designed. No right or wrong. People play drugwars with active keys. Do they have a problem? That's because DW required to send custom json on behalf of account owner.

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I completely agree with you, mate!

@crypto.piotr follow @davidke20s' instruction and the upvotes generated by "steemvoter" (that use @buildteam Authorization) will stop.

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Cheers!

This is sadly not the correct fix as the votes happens on steemvoter.com, so to stop them would require to disable the account there. The @buildteam authority has nothing to do with this.

Thanks for specifying it, @reggaemuffin, and sorry if in good faith I indicated the wrong solution.
Can you tell us the correct way to leave the @steemvoter service? 🙏

He usually skip my replies until later 🤣 we know each other's like forever, he will probably think whether my words are a joke or real, he would save that for the last, or forever forgotten 😂

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👍 Each of us builds our own reality, based on many factors including beliefs and thought patterns... everything is OK! 😉

Dear @davidke20

Thank you for your time David. Luckily this issue has been already solved. Thx for calming me down :)

In current days people lose their accounts on different platforms almost on daily basis. Hacks are everywhere. Even giants like Binance has been very lately a victim.

And now, just imagine waking up in the morning and learning that 3rd party (of which I didn't know and couldn't figure out) had an access to my account and using it to upvote some content.

That is some scary shit.

Yours
Piotr