So I downvoted this post. (Could have been one of millions.) And surprise-surprise! I get downvoted from 4 different accounts. Pretty cool actually! This is the future, no longer are you tortured by real-life bullies, no! Give the bullying to your bots.
What I find especially interesting is the way in which they hide their identity behind a veneer of legitimacy, let's look at the different accounts that recently downvoted me shall we :)
Veneer Of Legitimacy
So first up, a short list of the slave accounts spamming the flags:
Now imagine these guys downvoting everything you've ever posted XD
Anyway most of them are pretty weak, if even one of them is what the steemian natives called a whale I'd have been in the deep end.
Now you might be asking what's the harm in this idiot downvoting everything I posted? It's not like it actually changes anything...
It's not about me this time.
It's about stealing identity to gain credibility among others. Bang!
The danger of accidental trust
Seeing torbrowser on the list was kinda surprising, how could they hate me? I've done nothing to them. But I soon saw that they weren't really the people I though they were.
Until there is some way for steemians to ensure that the accounts they are talking to are the actual official accounts we're going to keep seeing these problems.
Luckily this bot owner didn't post any malicious links with this account but I can see it happening in the future.
It's not like I think this is the only account that the bot owner has either. If he's targeting semi-well known accounts. Then its almost certain that he's got others also under his control.
Until the time we get some kind of verification running I'd suggest that companies/celebrities please clearly link to their steem account on their websites.