Some Observations

Has anyone else noticed how the Hive account@minnowbooster bot is providing $10+ upvotes lately? You'll notice that many of these posts receiving the $10+ upvotes are new-er accounts.

This means that there are people who are exploiting Hive account@minnowbooster for profit. Many of these posts are low quality and are the only post from each account.

This leads to the question: How many of these accounts are bots?

Followed by: How many of these accounts are owned by the same individual(s)?

I'm sharing these thoughts and findings so that our strong group can take a deeper look, and I'm requesting the assistance of #bisteemit to take a look into how extensive this epidemic has become.

Thanks in Advance!

Let's make Steemit a better place!