newslink let's talk about spam and bots{repost of pjheinz who was run off the platform for speaking against copy past farming by the steemcleaners}
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A user claiming to protect the rewards pool has been draining it by self-upvoting his automated SPAM bots over 1000 times a day.
What if I told you a user has made bots that post over 1226 times a day to Steemit and self-upvotes them all with 636,109.323 SP?
What if I told you these bots claim their purpose is to 'fight' SPAM but posts/comments 448,220 times a year?
What if I told you these bots claim to be 'protecting' the rewards pool but are taking hundreds of thousands of STEEM from it.
Ironically these bots that claim to fight SPAM but create more SPAM to the blockchain than any other user. They have been using a group of automated bots to spam the blockchain with 83,141 identical SPAM posts and self upvote their bots comments/posts.
This user has claimed nearly 1million STEEM from the rewards pool with their SPAM bots. The bots are posting over 1000 times a day to the STEEM blockchain most of these comments are self-upvoted by the bots for $1.10 each.
@steemcleaners has SPAMMED the STEEM blockchain with 15294 posts/comments - all nearly identical.
@steemcleaners averaging 240 comments/day and 2 posts/day
The average drain on the Rewards pool is ($300 + 240 * 1.10) = $564 USD / day
The bot will consume $205,860 USD from the reward Pool and add 88,330 posts this year.
@adm and @steemcleaners upvote each comment for $1.10
@cheetah has SPAMMED the STEEM blockchain with 67847 posts/comments - all nearly identical.
@cheetah averaging 984 comments/day and 2 posts/day
The average drain on the Rewards pool is $15 USD / day
The bot will consume $5,475 USD from the reward Pool and add 359,890 posts this year.
@adm is holding 636,109.323 STEEM likely stolen from the rewards pool.
@adm has sold already 19,184,672.33 SBD and 5,354,252.52 STEEM skimmed off the Rewards Pool.
This is just a portion of the SPAM rewards taken by the owner of this group of SPAM bots. His bots have already been bloating the blockchain with nearly 100k automated posts that all say the exact same thing. These bots are on track to post the same SPAM another 500k times this year. They are Spamming on people's posts who do not wish to have their work intruded on. This is just a SPAM bot posting the same thing 1000x times a day.