I think I may make this a series based upon user submissions, "The SHIT POST DIARIES" series.
Is the title inflammatory, maybe so, but it gets the point across and you instantly know what we are talking about. I think my reasoning behind making this a series would be to see if it is possible for us to act as a community, band together and negatively impact those that choose to abuse the platform rewards system.
That said if you follow you likely remember this article of mine.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@pawsdog/please-join-me-in-flagging-a-shit-post-and-reward-pool-abuser
In which I detailed how some choose to farm the rewards pool through 6th day vote purchases. I will excerpt from my previous article to explain the process.
So what is this last minute vote buying thing?
In its most basic form, a user (typically a dickhead) waits until the last day before post payout and then spam purchases a metric shit ton of votes from various vote sellers. This deprives the greater community of due time to evaluate the quality of the post and downvote accordingly if the rewards are not commensurate with the quality of the post.
That is the long and short of it, as they have basically created a small business enterprise of vote purchasing and harvesting.
Now shortly after creating that post I caught a bunch of flak in the comments section about "why are you targeting a minnow", "these little accounts are not doing damage" etc.
The thing is, as I have begun to investigate it more, I am coming to the opinion that these are in many cases not singular accounts but a network of accounts working in concert to perpetuate their scheme of farming the rewards pool.
Evidence to this fact is a comment I received from 
I looked at the wallet of
and noticed he was sending all of his SBD to two other accounts,
and
. Both accounts are pulling the same "shit post" upvote buying scheme and since they are using the same selfie pictures, I assume they all accounts are owned by the same person. I threw some flags on the posts getting ready to payout. Feel free to join me in flagging these "shit posts":
https://steemit.com/art/@deepverma/rangoli
https://steemit.com/photo/@deepverma/selfy
https://steemit.com/love/@rajorajiten/trouser-test
https://steemit.com/business/@rajorajiten/business-promotion
https://steemit.com/love/@rajorajiten/7w4yir-baby-love
When looked at it that way, as to what a damage a network of these types of accounts can do the rewards pool the number would be fairly substantial I'm sure.
So in honor of the new series above is a list of "shit posts" submitted by
Also I would like to mention 
and his initiative:
Apparently a project designed to reward users for helping to keep our little home clean. The good enough white pages can be found here:
https://steemit.com/steem/@anthonyadavisii/proposal-steem-flag-rewards-program
