The hypocrisy and abuse of @berniesanders and @abusereports, a detailed analysis

in #steem6 years ago

Hello all, this will be a follow up to my previous post, "The irony of @abusereports, a system designed to fight abuse, run by the biggest abuser on steem".

@berniesanders continues to be the center of hypocrisy and idiocy in the steemit world with his continued unjustified flagging, upvoting of low effort content, and self voting from nearly 70 accounts. All the while, he promotes his moral integrity in creating systems to flag those he dislikes while maintaining the idea that he is "reporting abuse".

This is not to say he doesn't have his fans. Those who adamantly agree with bernie without thinking are also rewarded for their loyalty.

There is also a strange dichotomy between @berniesanders and @haejin, we must not forget to mention. @berniesanders serves as the leader of the group effort to flag @haejin, among @transisto and a few others. I have nothing against @transisto, besides his ignorance to whom he is working with- a far greater evil than @haejin. This situation will ultimately lead to failure if we criticize haejin and fail to criticize berniesanders.

@Haejin has been abusively upvoting his posts for the past 4 months. @Berniesanders has been doing the same for over a year.
Most importantly, Haejin's abuse is transparent. Anyone can see that Haejin has been receiving too much of the reward pool, though it takes more digging and forethought to understand how @berniesanders could be causing more damage than @haejin.

@berniesanders owns hundreds of accounts. Though I am uncertain of the exact figure, he repeatedly upvotes himself with around 60, mainly using his 7 @nextgencrypto @thecyclist @ngc @yougotflagged @thedelegator @steemservices and @berniesanders.

@berniesanders self voting figure is around 61% at the time of writing this post, which serves to be true if he does not vote differently through any accounts. @abusereports self voting figure is around 74%. He will be taking about 3,000 SBD from the reward pool in the next 7 days. He has posted 3 times, none of which have been greater than 10 sentences. All of his @abusereports posts are automated.

Here is a screenshot of @abusereports latest daily flag report.

Notice anything fishy? There are certain accounts with dozens removed.. and also dozens of accounts with only $0.27 removed.

From a quick glance at the accounts, I can see that @cryptokidd, @beanz, @heyitskolin and @ran-a-banana are all innocent steemians, who are not committing abuse. @gpuhead is also innocent but boy does he post some cringy comments on porn. 😂

This would mean $152 of the $176.82 was taken away from steemians who did not commit abuse. How is this okay?

Many of these steemians are also on the @abusereports blacklist, meaning anything they post will be met with spam. I was also previously on the blacklist.

Boy what a lovely account. Boy do I wonder why steem user retention is so low.

I will be reporting @abusereports to @steemcleaners for as long as it continues to spam and flag innocent people. Let me know if there is any other way this account can be reported.

I will be asking the same three questions as last post :

How many of nextgencrypto's witness votes are even real people?

How many innocent people has abusereports flagged?

What are ways in which steem can be changed to prevent massive system-wide abuse like this?

I would love to hear your answers in the comments.

❤️Stuart❤️

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As you can see, nobody gives two flying fucks about your opinion... Go crawl back in your hole, child.

I honestly feel bad for you man. While you may enjoy the power trip of flagging people, you are almost always in the wrong.

Your ego supersedes your brain tenfold. It must be sad, being you.

There are lots of really good men and women using steemit who are hoping it will provide them with a means of building a future for themselves and their families. I'm one of them. Some of us weren't lucky enough to have the knowledge,ability or foresight to take advantage of the situation when steemit was launched. I don't know much about much but I think that's why you have the support and respect of a large section of the community. But I agree with the author of the post. I think the way you've been using the power you've attained is damaging for the future of the platform and those who hope to see it succeed. I think steemit could really help the world if the right people set the right example but right now the example is being set by tge wrong people. You're by no means the only one but you are one of the main offenders, if not THE main offender. You know this of course and in a world where its every man for themselves and dog eat dog, I can't even blame you. Part of me even wishes I had the ability and means to do the same but for me, there are more important things than money in life, especially now.

How much money or power do you need mate? Whats your objective?

Truth is, you've got a shitload of power on the platform. From one man to another, please re-think how you're using it?

I hope you're day is going well.

There's only one problem, my friend. @steemcleaners is raping the reward pool far more than any that they're supposedly "cleaning." I have had to help two people out who got fucked by Steemcleaners.

If it was really about cleaning up spam and abuse then it would do so quietly, but instead it also posts useless comments every minute and upvotes itself, and more useless posts that it upvotes A LOT.

The only reason there is so much abuse is because @ned has shown it acceptable by delegating power to abusers and abusive initiatives such as Steemcleaners.

Basically what I am saying is, abusereports is modeled after steemcleaners by the looks of things. So don't get your hopes up.

I am not aware of who manages steemcleaners, though I do support the idea of cleaning up steem of spamming, scamming, phishing links etc. It just needs to be done by reasonable people who won't abuse the shit out of their power!

are there no non-corrupt abuse reporting systems?

You got a 7.06% upvote from @upmewhale courtesy of @studgriffin!

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Also, does anyone know of a tool for flag stats? I would love to know what percent of overall flags to my account have been from bernie.

You can find out most things on steemdb.com if you are willing fuck about with it long enough

Not that my upvotes changes anything but I just want to show my support for your efforts.

Your rep seems to be going up and down like a roller coaster today.
All the best.

Yeah, it's been quite entertaining honestly.

Bernie goes on his angry flag streak, people upvote me in response, he flags again lol.

I appreciate your support. You do not deserve your rep nor your lack of rewards!