Steemit Daily Action Stats - Into the Darkside of Bots

in #steemit8 years ago (edited)

Digging deeper into Steemit stats on the 3rd day of information gathering, it gets more interesting every day, take a look below.

Overall Summary;

  • 24.77% growth in upvotes from the previous day.
  • 443 unique usernames upvoting out of 5429 upvotes.
  • 41 accounts made a total of 3978 upvotes (73.27% of upvotes).
  • 41 accounts averaged 97 votes, increased from 70 votes the previews day.
5429 Upvotes in 1 hour, equates to an average of 130 296 Upvotes every day.

1. Overall Actions Trend Graph (3 days-1 hr/pd)


2. Overall Actions Trend Graph (excl Upvotes) (3 days-1 hr/pd)

Summary: 

  • Comments grew by 27% from the previous day, which is healthy growth.
  • Downvotes decreased by 21% from the previous day.

3. Top 41 Accounts Upvoting

Summary: 

  • All 41 accounts have > 40 votes each, in 1 hour, almost the same amount of accounts as yesterday.
  • 5429 Upvotes in 1 hour, equates to an average of 130 296 Upvotes every day.

4. Top 41 Accounts being Upvoted

Summary: This graph shows the top accounts being upvoted by the top 41 accounts

  • Some accounts are auto commenting and then upvoting the comment with another account
Suggestions and Comments most welcome, i hope you enjoyed the 3rd revision of my statistics posts :-)
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I see several known bots / abusers in that list. It would be interesting to filter the list by reputation.

Dan that's a great idea, there is allot of data to work with so i am just finding my feet but what is very apparent is the upvote abuse on this site. thx for taking interest

I for one nominate gord0b as our stats and graphs guy.

edit: my spelling is atrocious.

Rock Star klye - im trying to keep it real )

This is primarily one "bot-net" all acting in unison and they are being targeted by people like me ( @clamps ) and others ( @cheetah , @antispam ) so their upvotes and comments mean very little now.

They do still increase the vote count for posts though which is why I think the botnet is still alive and active (to try and game the #hot list)

Good point, the bots do seem to be controlled in majority by the few - the new reputation system will definately assist in this regard

I love stats, i did a lot of stats recently on my blog. What are you using to gathering the data?

I am piecing it together very carefully ) - yeah i love stats too, i am getting there & get the feeling that i am onto something bigger, some thoughts;
Top accounts seem to be bots, they are upvoting their own posts etc - trying to generate revenue & noise it seems
You will probably find it is 1 person behind this, the stat counts are too similar in % growth from day to day

It's getting better and better 🙌🐬🙌 keep it going !

I told you it that the stats would be a little better next time -) - thanks for the kudo's

Good analysis.

Thanks, with each analytical post i get deeper into the information, keep a lookout for more to come )

Huge change from your first post when I asked you for more details . Really great work you do

good job with the stats
i honestly though there were alot more active users upvoting

Yeah me too, keep in mind these stats are just for 1 hour every day, so these accounts are creating allot of noise & probably revenue (i hope not)

I'm curious if anyone knows how Reddit deals/dealt with bots posting autocomments?

Good question and i am not sure at all

I'm currently spending 2-3 hours per day curating and finding that 20-30 upvotes/comments or 10 upvotes/hr is about maximum speed. Anything more than 10/hr probably means a human is not reading the posts/comments or taking the time to add value via commenting. Some will be faster, some slower but >40/hr is probably a bot or someone just upvoting willy-nilly.

Yip, it looks like bot are mostly involved, it is concerning that they are upvoting their own comments too. There are 16 accounts averaging over 103 upvotes per hour - not good

I know the Steemit Elimination Game is broken, so the only fair thing I can do is say that you and @rittr are tied for first place. If there is another round and if it ever becomes popular, the two of you will be known as being the first winners.