I'd noticed this account several times and never really took a close look at it until @copypastewaster contacted me about it.
After a quick look at his page I decided it was time to do some digging.
Since joining in January this account has transferred out 6327.223 in SBD. It's account currently holds 2,179.523 SBD and 5,144.009 STEEM. His pending payout according to steem.supply is Liquid: 233 USD, Invested: 234 USD All earned from copying and pasting articles from ZeroHedge and a few other sites.
Does he participate in the community? Let's see some stats I pulled using SteemData and Studio 3T for MongoDB.
Posts: 208
Comments: 32
Up-votes: His own post and comments under his post
SteemData and MongoDB didn't help me make heads or tales of who he votes for so I headed over to steemd.com and used my browsers find function to see who he was voting for. I went through several pages and all I saw was votes for his own posts and commenters on his posts.
I'm a curious girl so I headed over to SteeMVP for some more stats:
zer0hedge's recent 52 posts
Garnered 3883 votes
From 1724 unique voters
Which resulted in $ 4345.98 payout value
You can also head over there yourself to find out who is top voters are.
I bet if Tyler Durden doesn't actually write the articles himself for ZeroHedge he does actually pay someone to do it for him. He doesn't just go out and pluck a story written by someone else from the internet copy, paste, and format for the site.
This is a serious slap in the face to those of us here who try to write original content whether it is someone who wants to be a professional writer or the average person like me who writes the odd post about I 💖 Bargain Shopping or posts pictures about trying to tame a house that has been neglected for years.
I wrote this post as an example to newbies on how to share a post and express their thoughts and opinions. When they stumble across a copy & paste post this well rewarded it's not hard to see why they jump to the conclusion that this is something the community values.
My thoughts are more along the lines of whether or not STEEM/SBD and the concept of Steemit will succeed if this continues to be rewarded. I usually focus more on finding plagiarism since I figure everyone who votes for sourced copy and paste articles are using their voting power the way they wish to. Seeing this though, just "gets my goat" as my dad would say.
Just another shout-out to all of you out there that support @steemcleaners and take the time to drop your finds in #steemcleaners-linkdrop, we appreciate you!