It has come to my attention that you can exploit @randowhale to simply print your own money. Simply create a new post, send Rando your $2.00, get $3.00-$8.00+ for the upvote, rinse and repeat.
Each one of these posts in the screenshot below has no content or value. Just a title, no text and a couple tags. Someone is posting generic questions dozens of times an hour just to get upvoted by @randowhale.
Is this what we want content on Steemit to become? What happens when hundreds or thousands of people join Steemit just to create spam for exploits like this. Eventually @randowhale's voting power will be depleted making it pointless for anyone to use.
I have been pretty vocal about how paying for votes is a hack and complete misuse of the intention behind the upvote feature. This exploit completely proves the point why paid upvote bots are bad for the Steemit platform.
There's no reason this should even be possible. All this does is create spam, misuse and exploit the platform, encourage behavior that Steemians would agree is inappropriate, and encourage others to not invest in creating valuable content.
This needs to be fixed.