About an hour ago, while scrolling on my feed, the streemian recovery announcement get my attention and attracted many others by doing things unusual.

What I mean by unusual is that, streemian supposed to keep your key safe and untouched but recently was used by streemian to upvoted their own announcement.

As explained by @valth,

Streemian is a service where users can follow curation trails, and so some other neat stuff, but this requires the website to get authorization to post/vote on behalf of the user. What has happened here is that they used the upvote from all their users to promote their own announcement.

While this is not really nice, they do have the option to opt out of this in the settings menu on their website. I did this, and my account was not used to upvote the post. But I bet many people feel like they voted on this without their consent, which is partially true given the fact that this upvote was opt-out rather than opt-in.

As you can see I have my upvote here as indicated but I wasn't online at this time. The number of upvotes is closely the number of users they have in streemian.com.

What do you think about this issue?

Do you think streemian will abuse your key and use them without your permission in the future? KIndly share in the comments section below.

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