The other day I wrote a post entitled Travel with me which had a collection of photos from my trip to work, and someone commented that they thought they had somehow stumbled onto a post by @sweetsssj. Pfft. Then today I saw a post about effective curation of the photography tag and @sweetsssj topped the list again.
So, I took it as a sign to see what he has been up to recently considering that she was called out about a year ago for supporting 10 accounts with 100% votes with all of them draining to the same Bittrex wallet. Her vote is worth ~22 dollars as she has very large delegations.
In the last 7 days, she has voted 75 on 14 accounts with 4 of those accounts only getting one vote each. It really is quite an incredible amount with 70 x 22 dollars = 1540 SBD of votes going to 10 accounts. You can have a look at the wheel for the last 28 days:
http://www.steemreports.com/outgoing-votes-info/?account=sweetsssj&days=28
Her own curation return over the last 30 days is 2,837.88 Steem:
https://steemworld.org/@sweetsssj
What this means is that the @sweetsssj distribution account sends out about 6500 SBD worth of votes every month to 10 accounts. I find this interesting considering about a year ago this was mentioned and became a bit of a thing, a few earlier, Ned removed his delegation as she was selling votes that were meant to be going to the community.
The most chronic selfvoter on the platform is of course Haejin but if you combine these ten accounts, they are extracting about 40% more out to Bittrex. They have worked out how to hide their Bittrex memo address from the public at least.
I think that this situation is one of the Steem Enigmas that will endure as I don't understand why anyone (unless getting a kickback) would delegate to her. I could understand if she was posting and attracting new users in but, she has only posted once since November and that was 6 week ago. Not posting hasn't stopped her earning Steem though, nor has it slowed down her voting on those 10 accounts daily after the posts reach 3.5 days old.
It is interesting that these 10 accounts have a guaranteed large vote on them but it seems that not even the frontrunners are going there, most of them have zero real comments on them also. It is weird. There seems to be some kind of protective shield around the platform's largest 11 account circlejerk for some reason which I think falls into some form of abuse for @steemcleaners. Again, it is weird.
This post isn't to create drama though, it is just something that I have always found interesting and with the popping up of @sweetsssj's name a couple of times in the last 2 days, I thought I would go for a bit of a looksy.
The other thing this post is for is to show some of the tools that people do not know.
http://www.steemreports.com/
https://steemworld.org/@sweetsssj
https://usesteem.com/steemwhales/topauthors
Another two that are good resource tools are:
https://beempy.com
https://steemfriends.org/
I do think people can do what they want with their stake however including delegating to who they choose and I guess that what @sweetsssj is doing is a demonstration of how much of a return stake can get in a year. It would be interesting to calculate what her (and her accounts) return is in Steem over the last 12 months but I don't have the ability to do so myself.
Don't you find Steem fascinating?
Taraz
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