Steem abuse report - anytime-soon

This is something I have thought about doing for a while. As part of the @SteemFlagRewards community I have seen all sorts of abuse of the Steem platform. There is some trolling, but every day we find accounts who are just taking from Steem whilst adding no value. Some make a pretence of being part of the community, but others do not even bother with that.

An example is Hive account@anytime-soon. I will present the evidence for you to make up your own mind if they deserve to be downvoted. SFR is not about attacking the small guys. It is about removing unearned rewards. With our limited resources we cannot have much effect on the biggest abusers.

Their profile link is to a Brazilian tele-evangelist. They give 100% of their votes to themselves.

This account was created last September. The recovery account is Hive account@elizahfhaye. I see this account has been delegated almost all the SP (8000) of the former, so they do seem to be working together. 'Eliza' gives 'Anytime' 100% votes to hide them as self-votes. 'Eliza' does several religious posts most days that are self-voted. This account is older. No idea who 'Glenn Ford' is, but there is a Telegram link to them on the profile.

Eliza is not spreading her votes around much.

These are not big-league leeches. Eliza is making about 20 Steem per week and Anytime about 70. This is still a drain on the reward pool and if we allow it to continue it will get worse.

Hive account@anytime-soon just seems to post photos with a couple of words of description. Most seem to be from New Zealand. They really look like they are created by a script working through a folder of photos. There are usually several per day making around a dollar each.

The majority of these rewards come from paid votes from @Boomerang and @X30. They also exploit some of the tribe tokens. I assume those vote sellers do not operate blacklists, but this is a prime case for putting someone on those. It makes me laugh that they use the NEWSTEEM tag when this is contrary to the spirit of that movement.

So they are taking several dollars per day from the pool with the 'bots' taking a nice share in addition to what they got paid initially.

Hive account@anytime-soon did leave a few comments when they started, but obviously decided it was easier to just take the money.

Anytime has only done a couple of flags recently. One was to boomerang! The other was to Hive account@chekohler who works with @SteemFlagRewards. These will have little effect. Eliza has flagged the same two accounts and could take off around 5c.

If you are not using your free downvotes then these may be some accounts to consider. If you are worried about retaliation then add your downvote where others have already been. They do not have enough SP to attack multiple people.

I have sent both downvotes. I can only take off a few cents, but I have several people following my downvote trail to increase that. If enough people do this then they will start running down their Steem reserves. Maybe they will decide to change their ways or they may protest that they are being 'attacked' as we have seen in so many other cases. I still get flags from some accounts I downvoted over a year ago.

With the current state of Steem we need to do what we can to make it better by improving the reward distribution. Support those who add value without being selfish.

I am posting this to the Anti-abuse community.

Steem on!

Steve