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There is a fairly new repo started by Steemit Inc that allows spam fighters to submit a pull request to have bad actors faucet delegation revoked.

Faucet Delegation

When you sign up for a new account via steemit.com you receive 0.10 in Steem Power and a delegation of around 14.9 Steem power for 30+ days. This is also called a faucet, as you get it for free from a sponsor.

Enter redeemer-irredeemables

redeemer-irredeemables is a github repo created by Steemit Inc.

Redeemer normally reaps most of the initial creation delegation (leaving them a small delegation for bandwidth before HF20) - the users in this list have 100% of their delegation removed as they have been deemed unworthy of an SP loan. They retain their user account and nothing prevents them from posting or powering up their own SP.

Upon being notified by Hive account@whatsup about some garbage spam going on with the two accounts Hive account@belyako & Hive account@paulabelo I looked further into and noticed there was a set of around 180+ common accounts voting on their spam.

I found there are four content accounts who post nothing but the same title and one line over and over farming around $4-5 a day using around 19 Steem Power and 3,000 delegation provided by Steemit Inc over 188 accounts.

In the end, it isn't a lot of money, but I would much rather see that delegation go to new Steemians that deserve it and will use it to create quality content. It also looks bad for the community and encourages more to do the same allowing this to persist.

I created a pull request to have the delegation from the accounts removed, similar to what I did with the Steemit Defense League.

My previous pull request was handled quickly so I am confident this will be solved quickly as well. I only see about $37 in pending rewards across the four accounts which I have forwarded to Steem Cleaners which I hope can take care of. If not I will do it myself.

The entire list of voters can be found here or on the pull request.