If I sold you a flask and instead of filling it with water, you decided to smash someone's face in with it, am I at fault?
So what's with all the finger pointing at 
These accounts are providing a service, just like Walmart are when supplying flasks, and they cannot be held responsible for what the buyer does with the product.
At 3:30 am Central Time this morning (12/12/2017),
Would you like to spend your time monitoring the activity of this number of accounts?
We have the right to highlight major wrong-doings, but not to point the finger at the salesperson - as in the right hands this product for sale can raise the community to the stars.
In data we trust?
I'm going to assume from this point that the key metric in deciding if an account is using their delegated Steem Power appropriately is the self-voting of their own content.
To spare you all the complete list, the accounts have been filtered to show only the accounts voting for themselves more than 16.7% of the time.
Why 16.7%?
Why not?.. Here, we hit the first issue... What is an acceptable Self-voting percentage?
100%? 50%? 20%? 0%? 'Well it depends if I'm paying for my SP or not so screw you %'?
I chose 16.7% because it is the average self-voting percentage (over the past 7 days) of 6 household names you may recognize:
| Account | 7 day Self-vote % | Owns delegated SP |
|---|---|---|
 | 20.9% | Yes |
 | 13.3% | No |
| 2.7% | No |
 | 23.5% | Yes |
 | 28.5% | Yes |
 | 11.2% | No |
Ummm... anyway, moving swiftly on to the list, which is ordered by Self-vote percentage over the past 7 days:
At the top, we have 10 accounts who have not looked outside their (probably) average content, and are only voting for themselves.
Any argument here that this isn't abuse? Not by many I would have thought.
47 accounts are voting over half the time for themselves - do we then set the bar here?
No? Where then?
When we have accounts paying for their delegated Steem Power, its a little harder than wielding the 
On a brighter note, 124 accounts paying for delegated Steem Power from
What's the plan then?
Raise awareness is something we can all do.
We can also argue discuss what is acceptable or not and present a general view to the likes of
Maybe he could then set a ruling: 'Self-voting with over 50% of delegated Steem Power will result in loan termination.'
And then we will no doubt see a host of the accounts in the above list sitting in the 45% zone.
If an 'abuse' percentage wasn't stated at the time of the arrangement and
I can see trouble with both options.
And, did i mention multiple accounts and voting rings? Sigh..
To everyone else, is this solvable?
Cheers
