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RE: Accidental Transfer of $150,000+ in STEEM Reveals Web of Connected Accounts
Steemit seems to have a very strict "one account per user" stance, to avoid a plethora of shady techniques that could disrupt the balance and legitimacy of this entire concept. If you uncover something more tangible, I hope there is a way to rectify it, for the sake of the platform.
Not necessarily, the issue at hand is more that many of these accounts appear to be shell accounts that pad witness votes. More than one account is pretty common around here.
Wow, ok, thanks for the explanation. That is still a valid cause for concern! In other news, I attempted to create a secondary account that wouldn't be connected to my personal name for some other concepts I have in my head... I was unable to complete account creation after being approved and got the following error:
I have no abusive intentions. Is there a way around this?
The abuse referenced is moreso because of the STEEM that is given to each new account. Currently Steemit pays the cost, so this is to prevent users from creating new accounts just to game the system and take the STEEM. The ethical way to do this is to create an account and pay the creation fee yourself (currently 6 STEEM). I wrote a post on it. You can find that here.
Thanks for the info! Great post, as well.