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RE: Entry to The Pay it Forward Curation Contest : Week 27
Thanks for your entry! Your candidates have been here for over a year, and they've barely earned anything... Hopefully, your entry will help them turn a new page.
The first one just sent a good chunk of steem off to exchanges:
9 days ago
Transfer 7.203 STEEM to bittrex
Didn't dig further back, but clearly they could be larger if they wanted. Sometimes you need to pay bills and that might have been enough to make someone's life a little better. So this person was supported from pifc.
As for the second account appears to be part of a multi account ring. Every so often, money comes in from 1 account, they convert all SBD and then transfer all of the steem in the account to a 3rd account. Below is one of many examples of the transferring of funds between the accounts.
28 days ago
Transfer 0.573 STEEM to gaultier
28 days ago
Paid 0.007 SBD for 0.009 STEEM
28 days ago
Received 0.549 STEEM from rufu
Also all but 4 of the SP in this account is delegated to tipu and minnowbooster. This alone makes me not support the account. They want others to give to them in upvotes, but they can't give anything in return as they sent off all their SP to bidbots.
Maybe a real person, but most likely a multi account just milking the system for every fraction of a penny they can scam. Kind of wanting to follow the cookie crumbs and see who this leads back to...only if I had some free time.
Well... do you think I need to revoke the second blogger? I don't want to support those who didn't pay it forward 😊 can I do that?
Deleted my previous reply and wanted to let you know that I did already upvote your beer review blogger. Thanks for making the change.
Thanks for the support guys!
Thanks @pifc. I need to recheck my featured bloggers. I think this should be ok.
yes @trincowski, I feel it a bit strange too.. I thought they're not human... but steemplus show the sign that they're human. I just try to expose them, I really want to know how they engaged all this time
See my reply to trincowski. Follow your gut, if you think they aren't real people they probably aren't. A bot isn't full proof by any means.
Thank you.. I've checked their comments before.. and it seems like human though they're not too active.
I have upvoted both of the featured authors' articles but did comment further. I think I have an idea as to why their accounts have not grown much in spite of their age on Steemit.
While the articles seem so nicely written, try to notice that it speaks on third party perspective. I scanned through few of their other posts and noticed that the authors never spoke about themselves relating to their post. There is nothing like "I tried this food", "We went there..." or anything to say that they really experienced what they wrote about. They are writing reviews just based on other blogs on the internet. Take a look at the comments and notice that they are not replying much. Why? They do not know anything else other than what they saw from other blogs.
Here is an example post from one of them wherein tasteem have caught the plagiarism. Tasteem put comment with all the reminders/warning plus the refence where the photos were taken.
https://steemit.com/tasteem/@yissakhar/tasteem-9eb713
@cicisaja, there was once someone like this using the #ccc tag whom I eventually caught. I have been engaging with him but he does not reply most of the time. His very rare reply would just be less than a sentence. One time I replied with screenshots from the internet as to where his photos were taken. He eventually stopped using #ccc.
Just my two-cent instinct... 😊
Thank you @macoolette, the first blogger not a native english speaker, but I think he's human though he's not a good engager. I have a bad feeling before I choose the second blogger but I ignored that feeling, and Thanks for @trincowski and @pifc who found it out for me. so.. I change the second blogger, and you can retract the vote if you want.. but it will cost us too, right? aahh.. I feel so bad, because I have experienced something like this before, worst than this.. a plagiat. uhmm.. I think I need to explore the steemit and use the checker again.
yeah.. I think I found that guy too... hahaha, not just once actually, there're 2 or 3 of them before you're invited.
Ah ah. It happens. No harm done. I have just visited your third choice.