Hello everyone!
I know I am way too new here to be making accusations, but since this community is all about giving... I thought I should share what I have found.
Before I created my Steemit account, I spent a couple of weeks lurking around the platform, learning how it works, what is encouraged and what is frown upon. Then I realized that abusing self-upvoting is, together with plagiarism, the worst things to do here. Fair enough... nobody likes seeing the reward pool being drained by selfish users, and plagiarism... well that is really bad anywhere, not just in Steemit.
One day I ended up in davidding account. I found it intriguing how a user with 100.000+ SP could have a reputation of -11.
He explains in his profile description that his low reputation is because he self-upvoted a bit too much and got punished. Well... we all make mistakes I thought. So I kept an eye on his account. Then recently I found what it looks like some fake accounts of him. He was punished for self voting too much, so he created fake accounts to keep doing what he is good at: selfishly draining the reward pool.
One of the accounts that I think is one of his fake ones is @animal-lovers.
In its introductory post "she" says her name is Isabella Chloe and this is supposed to be her.
It smelled really fishy so I searched around to find out that she is a pornstar called Katerina Hovorkova.
But what made me realize animal-lovers and davidding are the same person is the amount of upvotes the latter gives to the first one. Take a look:
I wish I could get $13 for commenting: "Thank You"
What bugs me the most, more than the rewards pool being drained, is being taken for fool. We are not dumb enough not to see this. He was punished for self upvoting, and now he does this?
I think he has other fake accounts, bot for those I have no real proofs so I can´t do anything about it.
I hope not to offend/bug anyone with this... I am just trying to help the community grow the healthier possible.
Thanks a lot for your time, for reading all the way to the end.
Will tag some of the users that for what I´ve seen, take action when they see something like this happening (reward pool being abused) Hope not to bug you guys!
@stellabelle @sherlockholmes @demotruk @smackdown.kitty @blacklist-a @dan
good work. Yeah, this looks completely fishy. I'll send it to @sherlockholmes
You beat me to it!!!
Thanks! Much appreciated
Re-steemed. One look at the photo, and I knew it was professionally taken, and not a typical "selfie" photo.
I'm glad you found out it was actually a photo of a porn star and her name.
Thank you so much! I really am happy to contribute to the community 😀
Thanks a lot everyone for the support words! It´s nice to get a feedback, stoked.
A fresh update:
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Good eye! That guy is a durtie~burd!! This place is SO complex and there are some serious crypto~whiz~bangs~ out there who know how to game the system from the top right on down. As with the current cultural deterioration of our world, let's hope the good guys (such as you & I) win in the end!
On . . .
STEEM
I think we have a baby Sherlock Holmes now 😌
hahahahha funny. Thanks for the support and for helping me to get noticed
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Yes, and we could use more..
More suspicious-looking activity between these two:
Thanks everyone for the support! animal-lovers is already being flagged!
Good findings!
I bet it was tough searching through all that porn! ;)
Thanks for posting, this is really interesting and something Steemit mods need to tackle.
I agree with you
How does that work? Steem is decentralised is it not?
Thanks a lot! I would really appreciate resteems so this gains exposure!
Thanks again!
There are no "mods". The community needs to act or no one will.
Thank you! Some of us work our butts off here with authentic posts and pics....it's disheartening to see this. Nice work!
I agree bro... I see such great content not getting a penny, that this pisses me off big time.
Thank you for your words!
You and I spent time to write articles. Davidding is a new user and has a lot of SP. I believe he invested real money to purchased the SP and too eager to get return. Yes, Steemit needs good writers. But it also needs investors.
It needs good investors that don't try to harm the system by gaming it to pull rewards from genuine content creators.
There is room for both content creators AND good investors.
But there is no room for both content creators AND bad investors.
Well, randowhale is content creator or good investor?
Thanks for the heads up. We need the purest content we can get. Thanks for sharing your find.
I´m glad to help. Thank you for supporting.
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How is it even possible to have a negative rep and still have an account?!
Rep is not related to Steem Power. Completely different items. And Rep has nothing to do with your voting power or voting dollars. That's all Steem Power.
Very good work... thank you... upvoted resteamed and followed
Brilliant observation. We work our asses off for posting authentic posts and these buggers cheat their way up! Thank you
Look into @road.runner and @warren.buffett
People just astonish me more and more.... guess that is why I prefer animals:). Thank goodness for the other thousands of wonderful people on Steemit and the work they do.
Can you provide any evidence that animal-lovers used photo of Katerina Hovorkova? If it's true, then she deserves flags.
I don't think your evidence is enough to show that they are the same person. It's possible that a man is trying to attract a pretty girl :)
Wow, I'm new here and love the purposeful meaning of Steeemit, so although I know I shouldn't be surprised that this is going on, I still am!
I guess corruption always disappoints me even though it is a big issue in our world.
Great that you have done this research and made us aware of some of the tricks that could be going on.
Enlightening post! - Thanks for sharing it :)
Thank you for this @travelingsoul ... We sure do need people like you here on Steemit! Pornstar posing (without even knowing about it...) like a Steemit user,wow... Getting better and better in here :/
Interesting. I am guilty of upvoting my own posts. Since I am the only one upvoting, I guess I just do it because no one else does. Pity party for one!! JK I will stop doing that and just be happy with writing what I am passionate about.
I am still new here and still learning the ropes. Thanks for your insight and help.
You probably discovered this scam because you identified the pornstar from her profile! (nothing wrong with that ;) )
Wow! Interesting and really funny, the guy's English got me laughing my butt out hahahahah.
Intelligent investigation though, great effort at contributing, and its not even ur job. Really nice.
But bro, u know as good as this post is it will also inevitably serve the not so lovable purpose of wisening other scammers up. Lol.