It has only been days since I wrote about How to milk the reward pool with complete freedom and we are back again.
I've tried stopping this a few times without any success as this has been going on for months in many different forms.
It all starts with a Chinese investor who was punished for upvoting himself.
Initially he would post a line or two about the market, then a video with cute girls. This is what initially got him to -10 rep.
For a while, he shifted to selling upvotes, although not everyone will agree with this, and some will claim it is his stake to use as he pleases. He didn't always seem to upvote, but you could do really well if he did. After a while, he felt this was not as lucrative as upvoting himself.
Why sell votes when you can vote yourself using a different identity?
This is where he gets really clever, he made a few alt accounts using photos from a porn star claiming to be an average everyday person.
Yeah, hmm. I'm not buying it.
A little digging reveals this is a porn star named Katerina Hovorkava. You can read her complete introduction post if you want all the details of this fantastic cover identity.
Although it is a great picture, I made some creative changes for the general public who may have weak knees. If you want to see the original, you can find it here.
Ok, cool so what?
This is where it gets really dirty.
This went on for a while, but then
We all remember askquestion and funny-gifs right?
yes, that's all one day, and not even a full one!
My last post luckily shut that shit down, but has it stopped?
Nah, we have another identity created who is actively getting delegation from 
Every time one is shut down, another will come up. This is only one of the voting circles that abuses the delegation. There are a few others using multiple identities to circle jerk the reward pool.
Only upvote bots and circle jerks can afford the high cost of delegation. I know many don't agree with bidding bots, but they do (or should) offer a fair promotion tool to users. These circles jerks do nothing but rape the reward pool distributing wealth to the same people with no effort or participation.
Although there are lots of breadcrumbs publically available on the blockchain to find all the connections to these accounts, I will post some common transactions between them.
- sarahlouise transfer 58 SBD to bittrex 5ae9ebf1220a45cdbbf
- alanazhary transfer 43 SBD to bittrex 5ae9ebf1220a45cdbbf
- askquestion transfer 44.627 SBD to bittrex 5ae9ebf1220a45cdbbf
- elizabeth302 transfer 3.073 SBD to bittrex 5ae9ebf1220a45cdbbf
- animal-lovers transfer 1.358 SBD to bittrex 5ae9ebf1220a45cdbbf
- funny-gifs transfer 6 SBD to bittrex 5ae9ebf1220a45cdbbf
A majority of the users asking for delegation from
Some of them are quite entertaining.
These cirle jerk groups jeopardize all of our investments and the possibility of the platform being around in a year or two, much less even 6 months. If you want to see Steem worth $0.5 again, by all means, let's all do this.
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