Had 2 recent posts, and as you do I was obsessively reloading page to see if they were getting any upvotes. They did, both of them got 40+ votes in a batch, both of these batches of votes came in the first 10 mins of posting.
Upon investigating further I noticed that it is not an unusual occurrence for new posts, if you have a look at the new posts you will notice a few posts with this strange voting pattern. Don't get me wrong sometimes you get a very popular post that gets these numbers but it shouldn't be happening as regularly as it is.
So what's the cause? I don't know but my theory is someone has set up multiple accounts to use in unison. And I have a few questions.
do you think this theory is correct?
If it is correct, is this exploit profitable?
Is it a problem to the steemit community?
Would analysing voting patterns catch the people doing this, and should we?
If you need to use your reddit or facebook account to sign up can everyone set up two accounts easily?
Steemit has had a problem with spammers from the beginning and it is continuously improving the site to reduce these problems. I have seen a lot of people talk about the comment spam problem but not seen this one addressed. Would love some feedback, even if it is just to point out a flaw in my arguement.
