For a while now or more precisely, right after the @haejin flag war has ended with his opponents capitulating, it seems as if this plague of vote abusing became accepted for what it is and no one is doing a thing to manage or prevent it. I understand that @haejin has too much stake under his belt to easily fight off and that it costs a lot of money to endure a month long flag war with a user that has well over 1 million SP but why the fuck are we letting "smaller" accounts 10x themselves with no consequence whatsoever?
I accidentally stumbled upon one such account which is coincidentally from my home country that is doing the same exact same thing and not a single person has noticed it, nor has anyone fired any warning shots.
@teleskop, @marinko2, @drazenc and @maarko are shitposting their way to riches by reposting their blog posts through @steempress-io which literally no one (on Steem) cares about, with the sole purpose to upvote them from their voting account @freepress. Not only do they not provide any further information about the blog post they repost, but they don't even bother to edit their shitposts which end up on the block full of indistinguishable symbols like Å, ¾, �, Ä and  .
Croatian language has letters such as ž, č, ć, š, đ and I guess that steempress doesn't recognize them so it replaces them with some random symbols and these abusers can't even invest a minute of their precious time to fix up their shitposts. They rather leave them full of these hieroglyphs instead so that they wouldn't, God forbid, waste a minute of their precious time to edit their shitposts.
Copy-paste the title, copy-paste the first two sentences of the blog they are reposting and boom! They just took a major shit on the blockchain and awarded themselves with 1.7$ for it. Congratz fuckers! I hope you are proud of yourselves. You proved that you can do the most basic thing a human being can do and you even got some money for it.
I wish my mom paid me every time I poop. By now I would have enough cha-ching to buy enough SP to burn your shitposts to the ground.
With no effort, these bastards are raping the reward pool to the tune of one 980 000 SP upvote per day through 10x themselves with 98k SP on multiple accounts! When they first arrived, they only had one account @teleskop which they 10x'd, but after my warning about such behavior, they created multiple accounts and started posting the same shit there just so that you wouldn't notice the obvious abuse.
I probably wouldn't have bothered to write about this, let alone promote this to trending but, after their insanely cocky and arrogant reply to myself calling them out on one of their posts, I had no choice but to let you all know about this and ask for your help to rid the Steem blockchain of these abusers.
Translation
I told them: Nice try to hide the abuse. Instead of having the SP you abuse from on your main account @teleskop, you hide it on @freepress where you abuse from, so that less people will notice that you upvote yourself exclusively with the entire amount of SP you have. I wouldn't recommend you continue doing so as it's inevitably going to backfire.
To which they arrogantly replied: It's interesting to see that even here there are people who are against free media. People who want to play censorship. Have you wandered away? You buy STEEM's (yes that's how they said it STEEM's, lol) and you vote for whoever you want. You obviously like socialism better as you would like to control others money. Write something good in Croatian and maybe you get an upvote from those that support us. I highly doubt that you are interested in free press in Croatia. You are only interested in earning on Steem! Is there any other domestic free press website except Teleskop.hr that doesn't have any ads on their website?
Justifiably upset I replied: No, I have nothing against free press but all against the abuse which you are performing since day one of getting on this platform. You are the ones who are wandering and it seems to me that you are about to get lost in some heavy fog.
from those that support us
lol (because they imply it's not them behind the @freepress account, trying to insult my intelligence or just playing dumb)
You are only interested in earning on Steem!
Nope, that's you.
I'm disgusted by your tactic to project your twisted characteristics on myself that has been here for two years fairly earning my rewards while you gave yourself everything that you have earned so far.
Typical journalist rats.
I bet that you won't be here for a long time and that you will never reach any meaningful level of followers or support of the community.
Of course, unless you change and start incentivizing desired activity such as interaction with your content which is currently non-existent.
Their response was so outrageous that I just had to share it
Not only were their overly confident that the abusing will go on unnoticed by the community, but they even tried to make it seem as if they aren't doing it in the first place. As if that wasn't enough, they even thrown a couple cheap jabs at me by projecting their twisted ideals as mine, all while completely neglecting and straight out rejecting my legit comment to the obvious abuse they are deliberately partaking in since day one.
They didn't show a bit of shame for what they were doing, nor did they give a sign of ever turning honest in curation. Obviously their only only intention is to rape the reward pool as much as they can because they don't have ads on their website teleskop.hr so they needed to compensate somehow and Steem seemed to be perfect for that purpose.
I don't approve that. Do you?
One no effort shitpost after another, these cattlemen are treating Steem as a cow, milking it dry the best they can proving that they will do whatever is in their powers to get the best possible ROI they can possibly achieve. Even if it means to 10x themselves across 4 accounts for shitposts which don't take longer than 10 seconds to create.
In their defense they might say something in the lines of:
"Well, we bought 98k Steem and we can do whatever we want with it."
As they already did in their reply to my comment.
My response to that would be:
"Ok then, power it down, sell it and GTFO."
They are currently stealing about 800-1000 STEEM/mo from the reward pool but, take in consideration that this amount (at least in $ value) will go up tremendously in the next bull run.
The bottom line is
These arrogant parasites will keep draining the reward pool while providing absolutely no value to this chain of blocks until someone drives them away. I'm looking forward to seeing if there is anyone left here that actually cares about this platform enough to spent some of their VP to deal with this issue or are we all just going to turn a blind eye and let everyone act like @haejin?
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Let's show this suckers the way out!