Removable Rewards
I posted yesterday about @johnsil and suggested the rewards be removed from those plagiarized posts. From there, the story gets good so let's get to the details.
First off, this account is very new.
Like most of us, this account saw few votes and almost no rewards whatsover after the first couple posts. Then came the transfers.
About 10 SBD and 10 STEEM. This was then used for the upvote bots, which have all of the recent posts on this account showing pretty good pending rewards.
Blacklisting
The issue is that every single post by this account is plagiarism. These are mostly recipes and there is some minor changes to the copy so it is not a strict copy/paste, but the image is clearly stolen from the original post and the recepies are pretty much word for word.
After reviewing these posts, I saw some were using 
Unfortunately, 
Even better, 
And finally came the motivation for this post, a new post about the unfairness of the blacklisting.
Normally, I wouldn't commit so much time but these rewards are considerable so I walked back the last 10 posts and I found all of them online, proving these are all plagiarism. I've put these all in a table below so you can directly verify this.
So,
We don't vote plagiarists.
Other Upvote Bots
Do other upvote bots vote plagiarists?
It's clear that
To these bot owners, on behalf of the community--and the rewards pool!--I am begging you to consider removing your votes on the active posts for the
I did a review of these posts and here's a full accounting of all the upvote bots I'm seeing. If you know how to contact any of these bot owners please direct them to this post.
