In fact, he tries to exclude all posts promoted by smartsteem and minnowbooster by scanning all transactions that are directed to these services and have a post link in the memo. But since the full Steem nodes he uses for these queries are not 100% reliable, @trufflepig may occasionally miss some promotions.
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yes i can see that for an account when a direct promote it's done, how about the vote selling that minnobooster and smartsteem does with the 85% payout, just likes like a bunch of people upvoting instead of the MB or SS account, let me know if this makes sense
appreciate your feedback
He should identify if other accounts are paid by MB or SS to upvote a post. He tracks all incoming transaction to these vote selling services. So if someone sends - let's say - 1 SBD and the post link as a memo to MB, @trufflepig will track this purchase of votes and discount the reward accordingly.
Maybe I didn't really get what you mean, but does this answer your question?
Someone can sell an upvote to smartsteem or minnowbooster and keep their SBD credits in SS or MB wallet, then use that credit to upvote with no transfer hence no memo trail
Ouch, yeah this is almost impossible to detect :-(