I think that some of these accounts follow the second curation system I describe above. I need to do more research on it. But at first glance I don't think that it does any particular harm to Steem.
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I think that some of these accounts follow the second curation system I describe above. I need to do more research on it. But at first glance I don't think that it does any particular harm to Steem.
I can hardly blame them for trying to maximize ROI with the current system. Once I noticed them doing this to my posts I created my own accounts to front-run them with slightly higher votes to take back the curation rewards. For example if I vote with 0.002 immediately before they vote with 0.000 or 0.001 it prevents them from taking so much in curation rewards. The problem is there is a limited amount of rewards and time to front-run a large payout post so the more people that do this the less chance a small account has to receive significant rewards by naturally curating without auto bot voting.