I THINK I JUST FOUND A STEEMIT EXPLOIT!

I was just looking through the crypto posts like I normally do and found a post with nothing but a picture of a chart. I noticed the post was worth 5c from 2 people and thought to myself, who upvotes a picture of a chart with nothing else. It turns out one of the 2 upvotes was from @promoted .

I then checked previous posts by the same account and noticed that every post was promoted by $0.00 yet had an upvote from @promoted. This account is spamming these post's and I wonder if this became widespread would it cause much of a problem?

It would not take a stretch of the imagination to imagine that if it is being done on those posts then it is surely being done on others.

Can something like this lead to huge amounts of spam on steemit?

Just consider, if 100 accounts make $5 a day from 100 posts, that is 10,000 spammy posts a day which could easily be avoided.