Which I have managed to conceal so far.

Until I was called out today by a fellow Steem member who had found the truth.

Or, how one ring to rule them all became my downfall

My second 'Mea Culpa' in a short time. And I cannot even remember where it all started to go pearshaped. Yet, I knew it would be hard to keep this under the rose. There is also a feeling of relief, the burdon of guilt, always there lurging in the back of my head. And I knew, one day, it would all be brought to justice. The involved Steem members would all be known. Now it was game-set-match, for all of us who were involved in this. And it was a brilliant programmer that found out and exposed all, to clean SteemIt from this malefaction, we knew this day would come. It was all there summed up in one post, made by this enigmatic scholar mind.

My fellow partners in crime, that account cracked it all wide open, we have to admit it, we knew it would one day be exposed to the public. And it does not matter that the exposer does not seem to have a clue that SteemIt is merely the User Interface to the Steem Blockchain. The deception got out, mentioned in a long list are all the suspects that are involved in the scheme. And my account was there too, I had been caught in the act and had been exposed for my wrong doing. A lot of attention this post got, from all the suspects that were mentioned in long lists. Many replies outraged that their account was between the accused. But we have to admit it, this wrongdoing has to stop. We have to go to the mountain together and destroy what took over our consiness, that what made our wrong appear to be right.

Let us face it we have all done it, by hand or with help of automation. And now I see fire, inside a mountain, that is were we should burn it, before it destroys all good that is still left on this planet.

"One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,"
"One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."*

Or in our own secret Steem language:

"Un fodrwy i reol bawb, un fodrwy i ddod o hyd iddynt,"
"Un fodrwy i ddod â nhw i gyd ac yn y tywyllwch rhwymo nhw."**

Can you not see? It has taken over us all, the ring, it has to be destroyed. We have to thank the exposer, for that is our savior from the dark lord of who's name wel shalleth not speak. Now let us go to the mountain and destroy the ring, cast it into the lava from where it once came. Let Steem(It) be free again.

Yes, I too voted manual for post and replies of other Steem accounts. Some of them I even consider my friends, yes it is true, I am a ring voter! And I am so glad I got this weight now of my chest now... Pffff.

Ah well, Steem on and have a great one!

*PS The text about the ring is quoted after "Lord of the rings" by Tolkien.
**PS2 The secret Steem language is also known as: Cymraeg.