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I'm only vaguely aware of them. I'm looking to automate the whole process. The bot identifies vote rings via an algorithm and then down votes them.

There is a lot more too it than an algorythm can solve. Patrice has been fighting bot rings since the beginning, there is quite a process involved and human intervention often required. Bots are involved too, but its a big operation. This effort might could use your help, but its already widely known and being done pretty well by steemcleaners. They have a discord and you could go find the project witness @patrice and she might enlist your aide though.

Cheers for that. I've got a lot of projects on my plate at the moment, so I'm happy to not go and reinvent the wheel. ;) I'll try and check in with them on discord at some point.