Yikes ... those little 15 Steem Power downvoters are not a glitch ... that is purposeful ... yikes ... a lot of good info here that people need to know ... I vote on pre-curated stuff through auto-vote, so that is a good move ... but it has got to be hard for the new people who can't get up to the point yet that they are producing so that they can get curated ... yikes ...
Yes they are from some disgruntled steemer we think - ONE person. It's not easy to understand what goes on here, @deeanndmathews. So glad I can help and good for you to support others without spending all day doing it :)
If it is one person, that person must have several little accounts or bots ... every time I get one of those little votes, it is under a different name. If the person is building bots, then he or she can do that until he or she can wreck a whole lot of folks -- looks like we need some REAL detectives on Steemit to solve this (and I am keeping my eyes on patterns as they occur)
Yes, this is one person who now has 100's if not thousands of accounts, @deeanndmathews. This has been going on maybe for one year and is getting much worse now. I have seen posts with 30 of the downvotes on them.
Okay ... the challenge of course is that someone with that much power is hard to do anything against because who wants to lose what little we earn here ... but, I will not accept that this has to continue without any kind of handle being gotten on it.
Post me the links to the articles that are getting this kind of abuse. It's time to start gathering data -- and if my doing so provokes an attack, GOOD. It will make the data-gathering easier, and will be clear retaliatory abuse.
Well, this is not a big person with any power, @deeanndmathews. This is a small person who is funding hundreds of accounts with 15 sp and having them down-vote with bots. Since none of those accounts post or comment, there is no way to hurt them in steem.
You can easily see this on steempeak by looking at downvotes on people's posts. Many, many posts now have 1-2 of these downvotes now. Some posts have 30+. I am not tracking this and usually ignore.But the smaller you are, and the more votes you got, the more likely you are to get multiple 10% downvotes.
I have collected a bit of data now from the 1-2 I get of this type, and my data agrees with yours -- the issue here is that we do not need anyone driving off new people that are hard enough to retain just for the purpose of doing so. In a decentralized setting perhaps nothing can be done, but do we KNOW that nothing can be done?
On the other hand, more ACTUAL curation is a more uplifting way to counter this foolishness ... so, perhaps the energy is best spent there.
