I agree to every word. This guy called me names - I had to google them to understand what he meant :). See it in this post: https://steemit.com/steemit/@emble/enough-is-enough-we-gotta-do-something-about-this, that's of course downvoted and $0 payout, but he made some money because without self-upvoting, his comment would not show up.
If we really want to get rid of his growing power, we should create a bot that will downvote every post upvoted by his bot - with the same amount. That will make his bot useless.
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Heh the people that tend to abuse it the heaviest are so powerful you couldn't build a bot or bot net big enough to stop them.
Yes you can, because every vote is only about a $1-2 if you collect some delegated steem power and announce it in a post: "Don't buy upvotes because it migh be downvoted" and you downvote every day 10 posts, nobody will buy from him.
He was the 7th most powerful account on steemit before he powered down and spread that power out over other accounts which have continued to grow, and before Randowhale. I actually don't know how big he is at this time due to him being spread across numerous accounts. I suspect collectively he is likely higher than #7 now. I may know soon.
Yeah he is the biggest there is. We can't build a bot big enough to stop him. You have to convince someone bigger than him to do something about it. Yet even they will have trouble because that guy down voting you is the creator of Randowhale... so every time people use Randowhale they are sending him more currency with which he can power up more. :)
The bot doesn't have to have any reputation. It can be -20 the SP is what makes the vote. You don't have to downvote every vote only a small percentage.
I wouldn't down vote posts he voted on. That would be guaranteed to back fire. That would become a flag war. We've never seen those end up well and they end up being bad overall for steemit.
We have to create a secret bot with no traces. He can downvote the bot as much as he wants but the Power will stay.