Yep, I do this openly with obvious accounts to garner attention to how stupid sybil attacks are currently, how stupid easy it is to make accounts and game the Hot section, and the vote count. This is what the sybil section on my recent post (this one) was about. I want attention so that the devs make better ways to counter this. This is why I was hoping to get dev attention with my post, sybils are a problem. So thank you for giving this even more notice! Not everyone read my section on sybils.

I did this in previous posts to test my theory (if I could skyrocket up hot). You will notice I only tested on posts that I expected to trend anyway -- my photography is not that great, yet! :)

In my post, you can see my discussion on how miners have many accounts and wish to use all their Steem Power to upvote their own content, but this causes a sybil attack on Hot, which is unfortunate. How do I use my mining power? I earned it, can I not upvote my own content with my power?

It is a tough question, and you can see my suggestion in my post to have an official channel to do this (via vote proxies). I would much rather use an official channel.

Smooth also responded to my post with a great suggestion to remove the "vote count" or even the Hot section all together, and I agree with him.