@anonyi I am totally stunned to see read and believe your post. First of all, I salute your incredible effort in putting all that mammoth of information, with 100+ hours of tiresome, laborious and enormous work put together to make one bombastic post worthwhile. I am still in such a big shock. How could you gather all that energy to collate all that from various sources? You definitely got some superpowers.
There is no doubt that there are innumerable duplicate, dubious people and accounts atrociously milking rewards at behest of others, all these people are hand in hand, yet they are not caught. We all know that very well. You catching someone with several similarities is just a tip of the iceberg. The biggest part is still hidden underneath.
Hive is full of scammers, spammers, content stealers, uncaught plagiarism, yet only few get caught or are intentionally left unnoticed. This is the key reason of hive downfall. When Bitcoin is about to touch $100,000, Hive is miserably lingering $0.28. It’s a pathetic state of affairs.
The utter greed to milk rewards by trading upvotes, as a curator or various other forms, has been a constant process since Steemit and farming abuse is now very much a part of Hive. It’s a multi layered scam that rarely gets detected with few very cleverly foolish people unintentionally leaving trails behind. That you caught, but it’s a drop in the ocean. Hive is in total doldrums because of such pathetic activities and only, extremely, very few shrewd people, abundantly milking rewards repeatedly. Freshers, newcomers, or people with little hive power are clueless, irrespective of the fact that some Silly content is getting plenty of known upvotes whereas a creative content is left unacknowledged. Really feel sorry for all such people on hive. Dejected, nothing can be done. This is real reason that several good projects gradually die a slow death.