What do you think about having multiple accounts on Steemit?

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Steem(it) works on ‘proof of brain’ concept which refers to the support of fellow users who can make one’s post profitable. It means users contribute here by writing quality posts and get likes or upvotes from the fellow users. Profit depends on the number of upvotes received and the value of the votes. ‘Proof of brain’ is a nice concept but cunning fellows know how to exploit this platform and maximize their profit. Quantum of upvote is everything here. To get the maximum benefit from this platform, many users devise innovative methods. Some people take help of bidbots while others vote on their own posts and comments. Many people sell their votes while some upvote to their friends’ posts only.

There are many users who own multiple accounts here. These accounts follow one main account and upvote the posts made by the main account or upvotes in a circle. However, it is not an easy thing to manage multiple accounts on Steemit unless one takes help of automatic tools like steemvoter, steemauto etc. There is no limit on opening of multiple accounts but if someone is having multiple accounts which upvotes spam for the sake of earning profit only, he/she may be punished by the community. Many such accounts have been filtered by @themarkymark, @steemcleaners etc. Their efforts have made it possible to deplete these accounts out of the SP delegation which they had received during fossbot account creation procedure. 

However, big players also use multiple accounts to maximize their profit. They are large SP holders who can destroy any account with their downvote. Hence, nobody dares to confront them. Unfortunately, these powerful people are the real beneficiary of this platform. Everyone is here to get the maximum benefit from his/her investment and contribution but it must not be an illegitimate gain for anybody. Hardworking but low SP holders suffer because of it. This is a big problem with this platform.