What do you think about this?
There are many projects on Steemit platform where you can get curation rewards by sp delegation. Such projects are usually made for investment purposes. Such projects keep a certain percentage of the total curation rewards themselves, and distribute the rest among the delegators. For example, 90% of the curation rewards are distributed to the delegators and 10% of the curation rewards are kept as dividends in the project itself.
There are many such projects on this platform which are already on the top of investors' wish list. But we cannot support any project that uses dishonest methods in the hope of extra profit. Today I will talk about one such project who are doing rewards farming using their own accounts. And this is extreme level farming. We found 20 accounts. We suspect these are their own accounts. There are several reasons behind our suspicions. We have enough evidence to support the charges we are bringing against them. They have been doing reward farming and fake posts for a long time.
We identified 20 accounts. In these 20 accounts they receive upvote from their curator account. Notice the picture below. 20 common accounts, which are voted on almost every day.
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@ribbon-work , @tonig49, @ifrock ,@t-s-k ,@lordling , @chinley , @basnoli ,@proteen , @artchard , @sarkari , @redfoster, @write-good ,@muhammadadil , @warkite , @aoliver , @boydg , @jessebad ,@jackwr ,@lucigents , @raylangiv
You might think that a curator can vote on the accounts he likes every day. It is his own will. But here the matter is different. I mean these 20 accounts are their own project accounts. I'm not just guessing. I'll show you the proof. As a first proof I would ask you to look at their posts. I am sharing links of some posts below. It's clear that each account is being used by a single person. All posts are same style.
- https://steemit.com/life/@raylangiv/how-...
- https://steemit.com/taking/@lucigents/the-li...
- https://steemit.com/life/@jackwr/ways-to-b...
- https://steemit.com/life/@jessebad/discove...
- https://steemit.com/importance/@boydg/the-import...
Shown as an example of the post of only five accounts. You can check each account. Same condition of all accounts.
I have two more proofs. I think by analyzing the above information you already understand that each account has only one controller. However, let's look at the second proof. Note the transfer of their some accounts. They transferred their funds around the same time. This once again proves that these accounts are controlled by one person.
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Here I have shown the history of 6 accounts. A closer look at each account will reveal many similarities in their transfer history. Is this ever possible with different person accounts? I am leaving the question here.
Now I will show proof number three. Before that I want to explain something. All the posts of the 20 accounts are AI generated content. Our detectives found them. Already warned by comments on their posts. But unfortunately no comments were answered. They didn't care. See the following information about them. These contents are AI generated. Most of their posts we have seen are AI generated content. Here are links to some of the posts that our detective commented on:
Here are 17 posts of 17 users as an example. Each user has been caught several times by our detectives. You can check each post yourself if you want.
I think no further proof is needed. I have already presented enough evidence. My question is why does upmewhale support these specific 20 accounts? Why is every post the same style? Why does upmewhale support AI generated content? Why the transaction time of the accounts are the same?
@upmewhale is trying to take both of Curator Reward and the Author Award. It should stop. We will support him if he manages his project properly again. I want everyone's opinion? What do you think? Your valuable opinion is very important. If I have any mistake please write it in the comment box. I will thank you.
VOTE @bangla.witness as witness
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Thank you for this @rex-sumon.
A quick check of a sample of the accounts confirms they are commonly using AI generated content for the purpose of vote farming.
It is disappointing to see some leading accounts voting for some of the posts.
For example... @stef1 @moh.arif @yousafharoonkhan @kingporos
Some serious lapse of judgement and lack of scrutiny perhaps?
Something I noticed when looking at these accounts in the past is that they all had high reputations with low follower counts and low numbers of comments/replies. Screening for accounts like that might make it easier to identify future operations like this earlier.
High reputation/low followers definitely seems like a red flag... although it wouldn't be hard to create some fake followers, so that's not a cure-all by itself.
As I am following a some curation trail, that's probably voted automatically on these accounts, immediately, now I unfollowed this trail, Thanks For your strong reminder.
@rex-sumon - what is happening with this group of AI content creating accounts?
They appear to be continuing doing the same.
Is your Abuse Watcher team taking any action to deter them?
We first give several warnings. We try our best to correct their mistakes. Sometimes we warn an abuser more than 3 times.
We have done the same in this case. We have given multiple warnings on each account. Our rules are that if they do not improve after enough warnings, we put them under observation for a few days. Then we think about DV. But in this case the case is different.
We have already tried to contact their team. Our primary interest is to resolve the issue in the most peaceful way possible. I tried twice to talk to them. Sadly they did not respond.
We welcome any suggestions from you.
If they have not responded to any of your messages or contact attempts, then your only options are to either let them continue or take more direct action with your voting power.
Thanks for your feedback.
Our founder @rme has called a meeting on this matter today. We hope that a decision will be taken in this meeting.
Good evening boss, I just want to inform you that the image server is down and authors can't make quality post because that. Please if it's possible kindly inform the engineering team about the issues on ground. Thank you very much sir
We want a clear statement from the Steemit team stating how we will treat ai content. What is it? In which category do we put it and what should be its punishment? If there is any statement from @steemitblog we will take action accordingly. There should be a clear statement on this from the official side of the platform.
We will do our best to give them a chance to correct it before using the downvote power.
We consider AI generated content to be another form of plagiarism - especially when used for the purpose of reward farming.
Therefore none of the Steemcurator0x accounts should give vote rewards to AI generated content.
We will also not be selecting any individuals or communities who use, or allow to be used, AI generated content unless for specific demarcated purposes.
It is up to you and the rest of the community to decide how you want to deal with AI generated content.
Esto ayudará a todos los creadores de contenido a seguir siendo fieles y activos en su actividad en la plataforma, y seguiremos teniendo un ecosistema productivo orgánicamente .
Apoyar la IA con recompensas es apoyar la pereza humana y la viveza de muchos, por ello estaré muy al tanto en cada revisión de contenido que hago como Moderadora para mantener a mi comunidad y steemit limpia y libre de IA y así ayudar a otorgar recompensas a los verdaderos creadores de contenido 😊.
Muchas gracias steemcurator01 por aclarar este punto que nos sirve a todos.
Que tenga un excelente día .
The abuse still continues...
@rex-sumon @abuse-watcher
Disappointing you are not responding to this.
Watching and waiting...
We have some rules of our own. We try to solve the problem in several steps. Previously we decided to downvote when we couldn't stop the abuser. This is done at the very last stage.
@rex-sumon tried to speak to upmewhale's team once again after the day you replied. We want them to solve this problem without any trouble. However, we have not received any reply so far.
When we get to the last stage we call a meeting with the moderators. If there is consensus at the meeting, and if the founder allows, then we take the downvote decision. But we see there are 20 accounts here. There have huge potential rewards. These rewards are too much to kill, Which we don't want to do alone. If we take the decision of downvote , then you also have to be on the side with downvote. A collective downvote will suppress it.
Ss by @rex-sumon
Case has been resolved
https://steemit.com/hive-192912/@abuse-watcher/case-resolved-upmewhale
Sir, This user has been unfollowed. And it has been voted only for the lure of curation trail. But during the vote, its content was not looked at because of a big reward, it happened because of the curation reward . This account has been unfollowed.thank you so much sir for this reminder.
Right now I am following a curation trail that's why voted on these posts. Will surely unfollow. Thank you for the reminder.
Sorry for the late reply due to travel. I published a report and everyone agreed. We are happy to receive your feedback.
Thanks for this info, I see we are on a voice track to some of those accounts. I will remove them from votes immediately
I respect your decision.
It is a case that should be studied due to the clear tendency of abuse that exists, seeking profits from accounts that only share IA content can be considered as farming.
I think the curator should generate a scholarship system where he would favor some users who share original content, in exchange for equitable benefits, this may be a proposal that would generate an honest activity within the platform.
Good report
Account farming, content abuse and rewards farming at the same time. You have given enough evidences that these all accounts are controlled by a single person. These type of abuses should be stopped. Thanks for the observations and sharing with us.
Thank you very much for your valuable feedback.
I draw attention very seriously:
@rme
@hungry-griffin
@steemcurator01
AI generated articles = Zero Creativity
So, at first we can request the owners of the above accounts to stop sharing AI generated articles.
Detectives are warning them.
Looking forward to see their next activities.
One of the main problems we find with voting services is that some of them do not look at who they are voting for and although they are doing a very good job generating profits for their users they are taking rewards that are intended for content creators, in this case there is a clear pattern of abuse that should be addressed
Good catch and it's really need to stop reward farming. It's a silent reward farming. Upmewhale set upvote after some days that is why the curated post not shown up in trending or hot feed.
Moreover your highlighted point of getting curation + Author reward is totally valid. All these accounts linked to upmewhale there is zero contribution of these accounts to Steem Blockchain.
You are 100% correct.
All the evidence proofed that all 20 accounts are there own.
@upmewhale need to STOP it and run there voting service like tipu , upvu do.
I think so too.
A very clear analysis and it proves that all these accounts are managed by a single user. When looking at the SP amounts of these accounts it's very clear who is this user. This is a very unethical behaviour and must stop
Right
You have shared a clear analysis of all the accounts and same user is holding all the accounts. That's so unethical and wrong way to earn through multiple accounts. I think such kind of account farming should be stopped and support only quality content on the steemit.
If they support good content, then at least some good content creators will grow.