Are these Bots? - Who Unfollowed the most on Steemit?
Are these bots?
As most of my "Followers" know, I recently came across some users who are simply trying to gain followers using sneaky practices on Steemit. Please read this post to understand why I started generating this report.
| Username |# People Unfollowed on 11th July |
|-----------------|-----------|
| pilgrimtraveler | 8724 |
| hebro | 8105 |
| akuda | 7531 |
| rocketboom | 3559 |
| mohammadreza | 3339 |
| yournextstepdad | 1216 |
| uniiq | 1029 |
| zulkarnain | 912 |
| proweb | 890 |
| yellowkersie | 876 |
You are free to make your own judgement, I am just empowering you with information.
How this technique works
1. Follow thousands of people in hope that they will follow back in return
2. Some people do follow back (in-fact a lot do!)
3. After a few days or weeks simply unfollow all users you had followed
This makes their followers numbers more than following and to a newbie user visiting the profile, it seems that these are really popular users.
Steemit is very different from the typical Social Networks and we all know it. With this report, I am not trying to point any fingers and you may have legitimate reasons to unfollow people in thousands! I am just trying to bring more transparency in the platform. The aim is to make aware and discourage people from using such practices which otherwise work perfectly on other closed Social Platforms!
This is getting serious day by day. Help me tag the right group of people who can create rules around this! UPVOTE and RESTEEM, Help spread this report.
This report has been generated using @arcange's amazing www.steemsql.com service.
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Awesome lines for the community "Steemit is very different from the typical Social Networks and we all know it. With this report, I am not trying to point any fingers and you may have legitimate reasons to unfollow people in thousands! I am just trying to bring more transparency in the platform. The aim is to make aware and discourage people from using such practices which otherwise work perfectly on other closed Social Platforms!"
Upvoted you for these.
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It's our job as a community to deter the use of bots buy ignoring and upvoting original content, this problem has existed before Steemit and will exist long after.
True, but people get misled. That is why there is a need to create rules!
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