Playing devil's advocate on this if it is Rep that causes such an increase how did that TA guy get to 76? Who with the high Rep has been up voting him. I always thought it was that relaxation guy only and his Rep is only 52.
Helsing is a good idea but if it doesn't get delegation how long would it take to remove his rewards and rep if every account north of 65 rep took one self vote per day and gave it as a flag to the TA guy? If everyone did their part and self sacrificed in place of proposing we take more that can be given this would already be a non problem. Is the problem big enough to complain about but not big enough to give up one self vote per day?
The data showed only @papa-pepper doesn't self vote so he would also be excluded from the flagging if being realistic.
The problem is that they attack the smaller accounts like bias narrative. 65 doesn't mean power of vote and it can really smash them.
Yes, the key would be a group working together. Can't hurt an army of flags but it is easy to single out select users.
Everything can work exactly the same without wasting delegation for flags. There are many other up and coming projects that could use it much more if people are willing to give up 1% for the benefit of the community.
Look at the groups that have already been hurt or dismantled in order for select large users to flag. So hundreds are being hurt to combat one user.
Looking at this image from 3 months ago:
And this image from today:
There is more steem in the reward pool, not less. Just the value of steem has been affected.
Yes it is crazy retarded growth but no more than any of the bid bot accounts are growing.
you know what I think about the bidbots too...
I do indeed! And the whole flag war is driving many more people to use them as not as many up votes are being used on accounts.
That is why I wrote the other one today about the cost of good whales fighting alone.