Sad news indeed - as I created the first @music-community on Hive / Steemit when started we welcome everyone to post here as well:
https://peakd.com/c/hive-193816/created
BUT - we do not run fancy contests where people earn a lot money - we support what we can. Currently mainly @ylich is helping to maintain what we can with a lack of time but if someone wants to jon and drive more initiatives we are always happy to welcome music guys! We considered some cool contests in the ealry days but simply had no time to run that and lobby for sponsers.
I had such a problem when running photo contests asuch as #SunThursday and #BeachWednesday where organized cheaters made their profits - hence i stopped them.
The more money is on stake, the more fraudsters appear. It is a dilemma.
Only way is to detect them early. In this case maybe some hints were there already, but someone needs to look at them closely.
Agreed - always the same whemoney is involved