DashPayMag Kicked Out Of BernieSanders Bot Program
Important: The nature of this information may not be well received by certain groups who participate in the actions described below. The rewards they have received have provided the means to censor this information.
This needs to be said to maintain the integrity of the steemit platform.
Who is involved:
And many other accounts participating in this rewards system performed by bots, orchestrated by their creators.
The community will decide whether
Background:
DashPayMag has been receiving generous payouts for author rewards in recent post. That ended when a recent post was flagged for reasons I will not cover here. You can view the post at
The flagging of this post led to the removal of
Observing the active post following the post that was downvoted, I noticed the active post (7 hours old) was not receiving dollar amounts comparative to the previous seven (7) post that were generously rewarded. Although normal in most cases, this peaked my curiosity a bit.
Immediately I started to look at
Please note:
My objective is not to discuss quality, or if content was deserving of the author reward paid out for each post. But rather to point out the gaming of rewards with voting performed automatically by bots. The bots I will collectively name the "berniesanders campaign".
The Proof:
We are going to look at some screen shots that show the
Below are screenshots of voters in 7 previous post before the downvote of a post:
Provided by steemd.com
In the first 4 post you will see votes cast by members of the
Are also in the 4 posts.
3 Ring
Broadband
ETC Gaps
Giveaway
The next 3 posts shows the bots before
Notice the 15 minutes between post creation and bot post.
Torpedoed
Masternodes
Mr. Robot
Now lets take a look at the most recent active post following the downvoted post.
Active post in it's 10th hour
You will notice
These three didn't get the memo.
As you can see members of the
For all the writers who feel your content wasn't given the reward it deserved. You may have a reason to be pissed after seeing what goes on!
I will offer this advice. Continue to write, this will eventually fade away as the community gains awareness and speaks up against it.
So what now?
The bot program is deep.Some serve a purpose in the community, while others like the
These voting bots need to be shelved. The steemit platform has matured in such a way that human curators will provide fair voting across the platform, and not just a chosen few.
Steemit needs to implement a voter delegate system to assist highly weighted voters in distributing rewards to post deserving of such rewards, especially with new memberships on the rise.
I want to take part in the future success of the steemit platform and will not sit back and watch it be destroyed by those not serving the community in goodwill. I will continue to watch these bots, and will not hesitate to bring about true ownership of those operating them. The damage to public perception of the steemit platform may be irreversible if these practices continue.
Keep on steemin!
