Had 2 recent posts, and as you do I was obsessively reloading page to see if they were getting any upvotes.  They did, both of them got 40+ votes in a batch,  both of these batches of votes came in the first 10 mins of posting.

Upon investigating further I noticed that it is not an unusual occurrence for new posts, if you have a look at the new posts you will notice a few posts with this strange voting pattern.  Don't get me wrong sometimes you get a very popular post that gets these numbers but it shouldn't be happening as regularly as it is.

So what's the cause? I don't know but my theory is someone has set up multiple accounts to use in unison.  And I have a few questions.

* do you think this theory is correct?

* If it is correct, is this exploit profitable?

* Is it a problem to the steemit community?

* Would analysing voting patterns catch the people doing this, and should we?

 * If you need to use your reddit or facebook account to sign up can everyone set up two accounts easily?

Steemit has had a problem with spammers from the beginning and it is continuously improving the site to reduce these problems.  I have seen a lot of people talk about the comment spam problem but not seen this one addressed.  Would love some feedback, even if it is just to point out a flaw in my arguement.

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