Steemit Leaks #2 - Did @sweetsssj Damage Steemit Using @ned's Delegation? Was Ned's Trust Broken Beyond Repair?
We all know about CEO of Steemit @ned delegating his SP to few Steemit users with a specific unknown agenda, we were all excited when @ned himself wanted to spread wealth. What ever intent he decided to delegate the SP with we respect it and no one better than him under current circumstances to take such decisions. However was the noble intention of Ned used wisely?
Most of us are even aware of what @paulag published with data analysis on @ned's delegation. @paulag's Post with data analysis can be found here
Can the Data Tell us Why Ned Undelegated so much Steem Power?
According to her findings @sweetsssj had given out the most in rewards, which was worth around $110k, atleast $30k more than second most payout by the delegated steemian.
Here is the data analysis by @paulag,
When our CEO has delegated with trust on few users we trust them as well, however @paulag's post was an eye opener and even this was fine as she presented her neutral findings as a business analyst.
Now even as we were still digesting few facts from these findings we have a user write to @voiceshares on the kind of content upvoted by @sweetsssj. Here we present that and we decide the community to take a call on what is right and what is wrong. We as @voiceshares can only share the revelations but not pass out any personal opinions.
Steemit User @agab started blogging 2 months ago and joined steemit in September,
Very first post of @agab was about Models, We saw no reference to @agab working in the industry but the very first post of @agab was upvoted by @sweetsssj.
[Beautiful Korean model] Jung Yun
Strange enough the very first post was upvoted by @sweetsssj.
Fair enough, a user has posted his first post and @sweetsssj has liked it. Let us not think weather that post deserved that payout for its content.
The comes the second post and the result was the same,
Strange coincidence, @sweetsssj upvotes the content of same user again, guess she liked the way @agab presented models from Asian countries by taking photos from their instagram account. I agree it takes a lot of effort.
What if I say @agab has posted a total of 47 posts on same lines, with similar titles and not one post has a para phrasing except for a instagram link to the model's account.
And better is @sweetsssj has upvoted 90% of the posts, let us just face it... it is not a coincidence anymore.
Now @agab has earned around 460 steem this way and @sweetsssj has been upvoting even the latest post which is 7 days old
@paulag made further analysis on how @sweetsssj's transaction saw a significant rise after the delegation and below shows the table for the same
Now we all know what is happening here, but what was the effect of this on community, on steemit and its users.
Lets leave a few questions for the community to answer
How is vote buying from bots any different from what @sweetsssj did to @agab?
Does this promote good quality content on the platform?
What if we focus more on bots and less on organic curation, what would be the result?
Does this leave a positive impact on community?
Is it time we rethink about who should be influencing the platform more?
Was @ned's trust broken?
Did @agab's work deserve the payout he recieved?
Is this the kind of content we would want to see on Steemit in abundance??
Is it justified anyone who can bid and buy upvotes can promote any content no matter how bad it is?
I invite few constructive comments and I would to see community get involved with the awareness we are trying to create. I am sure @ned would have done this with a positive intention, however people let him down. No one thinks bad for the community.
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The results of your work will most probably be greatly helpful on the long run and I need to thank you for all your efforts to help our platform being more sustainable, filled with integrity, quality and a sound community. From here on, you will always get my 100% upvotes, as long as I come across your work and it keeps this level of quality, of course. ;)
The information shared and the questions asked deserve a solid look. though @sweetsssj is performing extremely well on her own articles, from the very beginning, the ventures she has delved into upvoting such posts isn't my cup of tea. Same with bots so far, and many high ranking Steemians are using them, sometimes to our detriment as well as the bots upvote pure garbage! I have never yet used this kind of language on this platform, it is a first in the history of my account here, but I have witnessed posts that surely were far from deserving any special attention empowering the "creator" of the posts. Because of this, I can't help but believe we should manually and thoroughly read the articles we upvote and give them the credit they really deserve. The quality of our entire platform depends on our quality time curating, posting and interacting with one another in positive creative manners. Are we to settle for less? Maybe some can, but I don't want to as the resulting effect on the entire platform is actually detrimental to its integrity.
I have tested the community with a shorter less quality post once to see what would be the response, way back in the day when articles could hit the $1000 SBD mark. Happily, the community had not voted as much for that one as they had done my previous high quality posts. It made me happy, though I lost some reputation for it, it was worth the test, at least for me. Has the community changed to a point where quality isn't that much importance anymore? Maybe to some eyes, maybe from one perspective to another levels of quality defers... Fair enough, but what kind of quality content are we looking for? It is only a question each and everyone of us can answer individually.
Personally, I could not upvote such posts unless they were in deed artistically endowed, had quality work behind it that uprises the quality of our platform with its content. In all the posts I just came across on @agab, I couldn't see myself upvote any of them. I wonder and doubt @ned would endorse the content himself. He must have became aware of this by now and taken the proper measures necessary to take care of this situation. Maybe he simply gambled, as many of us do or did? Is his trust broken? By now, he'd be the one to ask all the questions you asked us and would LOVE to read his answer as well as the nature of the "contract" between them, as both side of the equation MUST be heard by the community, if we are to resolve this matter.
At large, the impact of bidding on bots as well as deferring our reputable Steem Power to others, is a gamble. Is it worthwhile? I mostly don't think it is, unless rare and highly supervised circumstances. such circumstances don't include the use of bots, still, in my mind. Not only is it the reputation of the individuals partaking in wavering quality of reputable actions for our platform but, more importantly, this affect the entire community and platform itself negatively diminishing its content or spirit.
Thanks a lot for all your dedicated work and this powerful initiative. I try to cultivate mindfulness in relation to anything I share here, whether it is a post, a comment or simply and upvote or resteem to our communities. We deserve it, we need it and grow with its content as well as its spirit.
Namaste :)
P.S.: My BTS address is the same as the one I use here: eric-boucher
Thank you for putting across a very practical understanding of the concept, I agree with your view point and happy to know people are questioning something that may not be fair instead of just arguing that it is the way system works and we cannot do anything about it.....Thank you @eric-boucher.
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I agree with you. The girls/models are all lovely but perhaps the votes could/should have been dispersed to more posters with a more varied subject matter.
Exactly, we just cannot see this happening over and over again.. :)
Resteemed to others on twitter and facebook via ifttt. thanks for the analysis of @paulag data.
Very noble, although I’m not sure how it’s different from bot votes (like you said). Those in the know do what they want, especially if it’s their baby. Let’s just hope the platform grows and your investigation has a positive conclusion. I don’t think you will ever get an answer though :)
Not getting an answer is not something we are ready for, can we raise these questions for the community to find answers themselves is the intention.... hopefully our positive message is sent across.
Can I have this votes ?? .....Christmas is coming soon.
I have been watching for some time now that some models here are somehow suspicious. I do not want to make anybody mad, I understand that everyone should be given chance, but some times is something little odd. :))
A chance is a influence on the community and platform, hopefully it is addresses soon. If the questions raised has any credibility
OK :)) I hope I did not make mad what my text.
❓ Are we to assume from the data that maybe agab was a 'fake' account created by sweetsssj just to profit off the delegation Ned gave to her?
Are there more accounts like this (created after the delegation was given) that were regularly upvoted by the account given delegated SP to? That would show intentional abuse of the gift given to them.
Thank you @paulag for your data analysis and @voiceshares for explaining that data to everyone.
We can only question the way upvotes was given and buy the look of it, it is definitely suspicious
Interesting analysis and without a doubt breaks the transparency of vote so you like
Almost everything @agab has made is from @sweetsssj
http://www.steemreports.com/top-voters/@agab
for vocabulary please visit and upvote
https://steemit.com/vocabulary/@xabi/6t2yta-word-of-the-day-vocabulary