I'm not sure about everyone else, but the bots and accounts that only downvote for no reason whatsoever should be able to be downvoted by the community to a point where they can no longer vote.
It is quite a useless ability if bots ruin legitimate posts and cause them to be hidden...
Here are some bots I know of, comment on any you know of:
Cheetah - claims the need to downvote because your content may be similar to someone else. How is this legit? If I want to post similar content because it's my idea there is no legit reason to downvote because someone else posted what the bot thinks was similar
blacklist-a Just a generic blacklister and downvoter, no logic or reasoning
adm Appears to simply be a secondary account so someone can just downvote for no logical reason.
Hope this helps.
Who am I?
BORIS!
I am only familiar with cheetah and have only seen comments on posts that were copied and pasted from another site.
I have written my own article, based on an article I referenced and did not get called out for it.
Good to know, but their method is obviously flawed when I don't read many other posts on here and post my own thoughts, and info from my crpyto mining processes and they flag me. I'll check your post out too!
Boris
Are you giving out referral links? That usually will get you a downvote.
Ah, I did put a referral on there. Why would that be a downlink offense? I am testing out something and said if others want to try it , and were not against referral.
That's kind of silly, this whole site is referral based.
Boris
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Boris
Nice post! I see you have been on steemit for some time now but I thought I'd say hi nevertheless. There is an upvote for you and full steem ahead!
As you are new to steemit and it can be hard for newcomers to recieve votes so you should try out Steemfollower where you can earn up to 5x more steem than just upvoting by yourself! It's a simple and safe vote exchange that is free to use. I also recently made this post explaining that in more depth and it has become my most upvoted post yet.
Thanks for the reply. Appreciate the input and feedback.
BORIS!