So I am in the middle of creating another steem tool and I was using SteemJS when I ran across a "Lookup Accounts" function. I curiously found myself, and then my wife. I left out the name parameter and up'd the search limit to 55000 (Since there are now 54358 steemit account as of writing this). To my surprise I got an array back... with all 54358 user names!
While I did find many funny usernames like @a-cat-named-joe, I also found a lot of "similar" accounts, like @a10inchcock , @a12inchcock , @a13inchcock , @a14inchcock , etc. and while still hilarious, it could be a potential issue...
So I scrolled, and scrolled... and found what appears to be close to 300 bots (Presumably owned by the same person)
See items 25-52 above
See items 53-81 above
See items 82-99 above
...and it keeps going and going until about item 300 incrementing the prefix "a1i" to "a2i" and "a3i"!
Im not certain that these are bots, but its definitely tainting the "Total Accounts" number on steemit.
Does anyone else think this is or could be an issue? Let me know what you think!