Reasoning? I asked you a question.... (which you didn't answer.)
The reasoning is because you only stopped at blurtbooster, but there are other bots and manual curation groups that were also tricked. As for the answer, I think my post is clear on the topic of duplicate content and cheating. Or perhaps, I didn't understand the question?
Oh, yes... I wasn't trying to be complete with my statement, just to point out how horrible Blurtbooster is. It's true there are other automatic bot curation accounts, you're quite right. I wouldn't know how to name them all. Upvu is one of the worst because people like "Offgridlife" buy huge votes and get their spammy garbage posts on Trending that way.
Yes, it appears you misunderstood my question: "So you are saying some authors are duplicating their posts and tricking Blurtbooster?"
I was asking for clarification, because the wording on your post made little sense to me. I find it quite hard to understand your point. Put another way: "Do you mean that certain Blurt users are duplicating their posts to trick Blurtbooster?"
Or: "Is the problem you are point out, that Blurtbooster is being fooled into voting twice on the same content?"
Hopefully my question is clear now. If not, don't worry about it, thanks.
It's a group of people (I think they either know each other or at least are in contact) and their posts are only about 2 themes, black and white photos or flowers. Each of their post is translated in 5 or 6 languages and contains 90% of generalities (example: history of photography, how to take black and white photography...)
What they do
They take the text of their old post that is between 5 and 8 days old (it depends on how many unique posts they have), they change the order of the translation (for example if Spanish was before English, they put it after in the new post), add a beginning text and new photos.
Doing text comparison requires a lot of processor resources (especially when the order is different) and a dedicated analysis database (blockchain queries being too time consuming) that's why bots are easily fooled.
Thanks for the info. Generally what I do when I encounter those accounts is mute (ignore) them so I never have to see them again, and won't ever be tricked into giving them a vote.
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