All the cases we present to you here are our personal investigations and discoveries. If we decide to show you a case that is not our discovery, we will explicitly mention it, because we cannot take other people’s merits. After all, honesty comes first in our every action.
The @boddhisattva and @boddhistats case is practically almost closed. Thanks to the actions of the Hivewatchers, but most of all, thanks to the help of a worthy man, whom we have already addressed several times and whom we do not want to tag unnecessarily at the moment. But his merit is clearly seen on @boddhisattva's account, so there is no need to explicitly mention him.
So, imagine you sign up to the blockchain in July 2016. You are a good photographer, you probably have hundreds of thousands of pictures, but you decide to publish on Steemit/Hive the pictures from approximately 5 of your albums.
What’s the result of that decision?
Numerous posts with recurring photos, of course, published in different communities, of course. Sometimes even in the same communities.
Sometimes every two months.
Sometimes every two years.
Sometimes every year.
We do not know what the posts of this account were at the beginning of his Steemit career. Because it is very difficult to reach this beginning.
When an account posts 4 times a day, you know how difficult it is to overcome this huge number of posts to get to the beginning - 5 and a half years ago.
And maybe that's exactly what the goal was - not to be able to easily get to all these repetitive photos.
Repetitive in the sense of multiple photos from the same place, taken from a slightly different angle, which confirms the fact that they are from the same album and taken at the same time. For example:
@boddhisattva/lakhta-center-skycraper-at-sunset-stpetersburg
and @boddhisattva/sunset-view-of-lakhta-center-stpetersburg
@boddhisattva/beach-sunset-r3uzbk
and @boddhisattva/beach-sunset
@boddhisattva/evening-view-of-the-lakhta-center
and @boddhisattva/lakhta-center-skycraper-at-sunset-r3pd7o
@boddhisattva/autumn-view-from-the-park-r3hvch
and @boddhisattva/autumn-view-from-the-park
Or completely identical:
@boddhisattva/monomad-photographic-challenge-evening-beach-lasnscape
and @boddhisattva/monomad-photographic-challenge-spring-beach-landscape
@boddhisattva/stpetersburg-street-view-r3zxh7
and @boddhisattva/stpetersburg-street-picture
@boddhisattva/view-of-the-morning-sky-through-the-porthole
and @boddhisattva/4f8nb2-traveling-at-sunset
Same pictures, published every year on almost the same date:
@boddhisattva/night-alley
and @boddhisattva/golden-autumn-qiajxd
Same pictures just processed with different filter, published every year on almost the same date:
@boddhisattva/lakhta-center-skycraper
and @boddhisattva/lakhta-center-close-up-view
@boddhisattva/winter-sunrise-cityscape
and @boddhisattva/winter-morning-in-the-city
Same pictures, just different filter:
@boddhisattva/cable-stayed-bridge-r44x53
and @boddhisattva/pedestrian-bridge
There are also pictures, just processed with different filters and posted more than twice:
@boddhisattva/shooting-the-sunset-qrfmsx
@boddhisattva/shooting-the-sunset
@boddhisattva/shooting-the-sunset-qwfn6w
We can assure you, that this is just one small part of the examples how the blockchain was exploited by this user during all these 5 and a half years - repetitive recycled content, spam posts with low-effort content, usually containing just one picture.
4 times a day.
The user makes the same with his second account on Hive - @boddhistats.
Here, too, he often repeats the photos he once uploaded to this account. They are from the same places and albums as the pictures from his main account, but it seems that with the difference that they are of slightly worse quality than the others. But here at least he does not publish 4 times a day.
And yet, along with this account, it turns out that the user has posted 5 times a day.
In our opinion, this is one of the surest signs of intent and attempt to abuse the blockchain.
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