RE: [Steemit Etiquette] Using 95+ Bot Accounts to Upvote your own Content. Fair Game or Not Cool?

[riensen]

What a great response @anyx !

Probably this post this will not garner enough attention and it did not use Bots to upvote itself. Your post already had quite a few upvotes when you used your "attack" it would only increase the payout. Also the post itself was not only about your own attack. Neither your post nor this post might be enough to really make the problem obvious to everyone.

In my opinion more awareness needs to be raised.

For now I will propose to create a Bug report to see what the Devs say.

If the problem is ignored:

1. We need to be another more obvious attack with even more bots 1000 - 5000 within the first 10 minutes. The content needs to be shit! E.g. This is why we cannot display vote count and must destroy hot.
2. A simple one-click solution or guide for the average Joe to create hundreds of Bots. We need to level the playing field

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[anyx]

Well, let's get some attention. 150 votes aught to do it, eh? We're at the top of /hot already.

[riensen]

Created a Bug Report Here: https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/233

Both Hot and the Vote Count can be easily manipulated to make an article more visible and thus indirectly increase payout.
Using the API we can easily create hundred of accounts whenever a POW is found. In fact this behaviour is encouraged in order to mine continuously, or we are penalized. However when duplicate accounts are used to upvote content than it skyrockets in the Hot section. Also the vote count is misleading as it suggest that many low steem power users support the post although it is actually the same person.
The below image is a an example. It was upvoted with 150 Bot accounts and appears at the top of the Hot section although there is little payout associated with it.