Well met, @jaguar.force.

Such is the downside of curation in a decentralized set up. It should not have come as a surprise to us. I am certain there are those who hide their tracks well in this game of farming auto-votes.

On the surface, it may not seem like a big deal as the alts still drive up usage of the dapps. Unfortunately, this means the actual reach of these applications are much shorter. Not only are honest users robbed of their fair share, the long-term health of the platform suffers.

The last thing we want is to have a "popular" dapp to have very few unique individuals. It is the same with the entire population of Steem. What is the point of coming to a platform of supposed 1.3M users when less than 50K are real?

From this post alone, I am glad to see @dtube is taking actions based on the report. In all honesty, this is all they can do. They could invest in a team of curators/reporters to peruse for these types of abuse. But, is that practical on their end to maintain an internal quality control effort?

It would be nice if they have competent internal quality control, but that should not be expected. It is my hope that all projects would at least work with anti-abuse initiatives. I would hope various dapp teams would verify the claims and take appropriate actions.

In the cases of family and friends, I do understand that they can act in one accord. At the same time, doing shady things together screams red flags. We already know of rings of users who try to scratch each other's backs via dishonest practices.

Such is the curse of decentralization.

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