Sixth Day. 11th Hour Voting
A new bot was created by @emrebeyler to monitor this type of voting pattern with the support of a 200SBD bounty from @berniesanders
The bot is reporting under the account @abusereports
@abusereports/last-minute-upvote-list-2018-02-18
In the last 24 hours that bot has detected @sweetsssj to be the number one performer by far with 5 votes totaling 1247.17 ------> USD 2800
I thought the votes listed in the first post might have been an exception or a coincidence so I checked the 9 high power votes issued on February 16-17 by @sweetsssj
1- https://steemd.com/cn/@allanlong/27mnbg
Created: 2018-02-11 02:23:15 Voted: 2018-02-17 12:57:39 @100%
6 days 10 hours and 34 minutes
2- https://steemd.com/food/@serenawu/gold-crab-at-the-crab-house
Created: 2018-02-10 18:42:51 Voted: 2018-02-17 06:15:24 @100%
6 days 11 hours and 33 minutes
3- https://steemd.com/travel/@maysun/kobe-city
Created: 2018-02-10 18:49:24 Voted: 2018-02-17 05:01:18
6 days 10 hours and 12 minutes
4- https://steemd.com/cn/@amylee/part-48-uk-here-we-came-part-48-explore-the-beautiful-york-cathedral-1
Created: 2018-02-10 15:30:45 Voted: 2018-02-17 03:01:06 @100%
6 days 11 hours and 31 minutes
5- https://steemd.com/cn/@twinkledrop/travel-with-rainie-let-s-visit-the-car-museum-in-bourton-on-the-water-1-rainie
Created: 2018-02-10 06:52:27 Voted: 2018-02-16 17:59:00 @100%
6 days 11 hours and 7 minutes
6- https://steemd.com/photography/@wisemansays/zta5u
Created: 2018-02-10 06:32:45 Voted: 2018-02-16 16:31:51
6 days 10 hours and 1 minute
7- https://steemd.com/food/@ashely056/sunny-gourmet-11-dinner-at-shangri-la-hotel
Created: 2018-02-10 04:41:15 Voted: 2018-02-16 15:29:18
6 days 10 hours and 12 minutes
8- https://steemd.com/society/@honeybee/a-brave-new-world
Created: 2018-02-10 00:07:12 Voted: 2018-02-16T11:32:57
6 days 11 hours and 25 minutes
9- https://steemd.com/photography/@miftahuddin/the-little-sunflower-adorns-us-together-29dba5acd1851
Created: 2018-02-10 17:53:12 Voted: 2018-02-17 01:11:06 @42%
6 days 7 hours and 18 minutes
Im thinking this looks like an intentional pattern of obfuscation.
Courtesy
The vote number 9 takes us to the @miftahuddin account
and this is the perfect user to address a comment by @sweetsssj
"hi celow. I do not appreciate you sending memos and requesting upvotes. It is frankly very rude. I have never offered nor made a deal with you or anyone to upvote posts in memos so don't act entitled. I have in the past obliged and voted for some out of courtesy but the spamming is getting out of hand. Don't do it again."
https://steemd.com/tx/92a546a38d328c469663f6b4c42eb1ee4a176789
Let's take a look at the @miftahuddin account:
@miftahuddin/transfers
The user states in the profile data he is in Norway when he clearly is in Indonesia
User sends 30 transactions of 1-5 SBD with links in the memo directly to @sweetsssj starting 3 months ago
User begins to systematically get small upvotes by @sweetsssj shortly after the transactions start being sent.
Suddenly user stops sending transactions with links in the memo
directly to @sweetsssj and starts sending transactions to
bittrex memos f439b10436fa4edb836 and 5bdbb32f342b431e987.(@sweetsssj's bittrex memos)Specifically 950 STEEM in 11 transactions to f439b10436fa4edb836
and 420 SBD in 14 transactions to 5bdbb32f342b431e987Question: How did the user know the memos to send to if he didn't make a deal with @sweetsssj ?
Suddenly user starts systematically getting big upvotes from @sweetsssj
User stops sending transactions a month ago.
Suddenly, user stops being voted by @sweetsssj a month ago.
...
This is a very interesting definition of courtesy
The 13 Accounts
In the first post I informed you that the 13 accounts in question
represent 48.1 % of @sweetsssj outgoing votes in the last 4 months.
But I would also like to give you a most recent number regarding this.
In the last 31 days these 13 accounts represent 76.4% of @sweetsssj's outgoing votes
http://www.steemreports.com/outgoing-votes-info/?account=sweetsssj&days=31
The Protocol
In response to @sweetsssj's reply stating that:
"I vote within the time period permissible by the rules of the protocol."
https://steemd.com/tx/cd26de02723f7d1b7c5f6be0d738718856610741
I would like to tell you @sweetsssj that there are many things that are allowed by the protocol, for example posting plagiarism is allowed by the protocol, voting for plagiarism is too, it's usually via extra-protocol means that these behaviors are addressed, and so I find your statement extraordinarily cynical if not intellectually dishonest, or maybe both.
Regards,
Walden.