Yesterday I prepared an analysis of the down votes given by
for the month of November, and I must say it’s good to see work like this going on here on Steemit.
If you missed the post you can check it out here
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@paulag/refilling-the-rewards-pool-when-cheaters-are-in-the-mist
But Flagging is not only done by the accounts mentioned above, many people on Steemit engage in flagging. Sometimes flags are personal and flag wars begin, But I would like to believe most of us don’t engage in this behaviour.
An account well known for flagging and being flagged is Berniesanders. has been on Steemit since the start. The account was set up in March 16. To use to his advantage
also has a suite of steemit accounts.
I am going to be very honest here, I don’t know or any of the history. I just know there was some controversy about down votes in the past. After the post I did yesterday on the down votes, I have been asked if I could do something similar for the down votes for
and his team of accounts.
The aim of this analysis is to present the numerical and financial data on down votes given by Bernie and his team for the month of November.
The team of accounts I have identified are
These accounts have been identified using time proximity on votes, along with verification via witness voting proxies, delegation history and transfers.
The Data
Following the process described in yesterday’s posts, I pulled data for all of the account above. However this identified a flaw in the model. The vote value calculation is based on the current effective Steem Power (ESP).
ESP is the Steem Power that you own, less what you have delegated out, less what you have delegated in.
With the accounts in question, using the current ESP gave a rather inaccurate result as many of these accounts have now delegated power out.
Adjustments on delegated power were therefore required to carry out the calculations. For simplicity, I have taken the ESP to be the owned SP. This should give a more accurate net result on the vote worth. I have also had to fix other values that would tend to float because of limitations of the database, so the financial values are not 100% correct.
For this analysis I have taken the November data from the Steemsql database held and managed by
The Analysis
The Downvoters
Bernie and his team of accounts down voted 7982 times in the month of November to 140 distinct authors on 645 posts.
The chart below shows all of these accounts sorted by the most active in terms of the number of down votes given
And below shows the average % weight used when down voting
The pie chart below shows the total distinct authors each of these accounts down voted for the month of November.
In total, these accounts returned $25,195 to the rewards pool in November by way of down votes. The table below shows these accounts sorted by the value of down votes given
The down voted Authors
140 different authors received down votes from this team. Thankfully I was not one of them, and I hope this post does not add me to the list.
Sorting by the Authors that lost most post rewards because of the down votes here are the top 50+ authors
And below are the permalinks that received the highest value of down votes
Time Series
Conclusion
$25,195 is a considerable sum to be returned to the rewards pool. Combining this with the $49,295 returned by and co. $74,490 was returned to the reward pool by these select few accounts.
Taking from a different analysis carried out $1,191,723 was paid out in comment and posts written in November
(You can read that analysis here https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@paulag/is-there-still-an-uneven-distribution-of-steem-part-2)
If we now gross up the net pay out value, without these down votes the rewards pool would have been charged $1,266,613 in November based on votes, however only 94% of this was paid out.
The aim of this analysis was to present the data, not to make judgement or pass comments on the actions of any accounts here on steemit.

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