Comments with a positive pending payout will be shown no matter how low reputation score the author has. Now bots adopted simple strategy: self-upvote after posted a comment. See https://steemd.com/@backetri for example.
It's by design, but I think it's a bug.
//Update:
I'm now using the @adm account to manually downvote found spamming replies. Wish the issue get fixed sooner.
I increased the power of the cheetah bots (spent 1,000 SD) to fight this, it looks like I am winning again.
You are a saint you know that
Cheetah adapts very quickly)
Thank you for alerting the community to this fact. Hopefully the system can be tweaked to continue to hide users with extremely low reputations
The bots come with 40 votes now, cheeta is fighting against an army of spam bots.
It is kind of weird to vote for oneself, especially when you got great SP. It sounds subjective.
It makes comments more visible if you wish them to be, but most whales tend notto upvote their own comments. It is strange to me that there is no auto upvote for comments available though.
@abit
They don't write, only self UPVOTES 🙁
Just like the whales, piggy back on others people work to get the rewards - call curation
I'm under big pressure after saw the $9xx pending payout on this post. Didn't expect that. A bit off-topic though.
Ha ha ha scores, finder keeper
😋 👍👍👍
Hope we will get that fixed.
Well spotted
shut bot down
I appreciate your upvote kind sir. Have a blessed day. Followed.