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Hi, I'm Robin and I belong to the Steem Watchers team and today I'm here to talk to you about a situation found within one of the most famous support programs on steemitblog. The following may not necessarily be an abuse of the platform, but as I have been working, I want to ensure fairness and justice within the ecosystem, this situation deserves to be mentioned and reviewed by all of you. Recently a great drama came to light due to human errors of those who use the steemitblog curation accounts (steemcurator04-08), apparently the post key was compromised and someone irresponsible struck down all the voting power temporarily disabling this service . It seems to me that it is a good time to reveal the results achieved through a casual investigation that I have carried out on this initiative and it has left me with a bittersweet taste by making me question. Are the curators of this system really ensuring that they reward fairly and equitably? to the authors? Well, there is no absolute truth, but I think that this investigation that I will share with you today will make you question this just like me. Regarding the distribution of votes of the designated accounts, I did not find very obvious anomalies, but weekly each curator is responsible for selecting an author who will receive a guaranteed vote from the greatest exponent of steemitblog (steemcurator01) and I think that is where it is. the problem, because there are characters who do nothing more than select users from their social circle on the platform. Is it wrong to select people who are related to you? Well, theoretically no, but the problem comes when 50% or more of your capacity is used to benefit only your friends. Let's be realistic, if two people publish something with a similar quality, and you have the opportunity to support only one, you will surely go for the one you know the most, or with whom you have shared more of your time, it is a natural human behavior. Through this publication it is not intended to question the quality of the selected authors, if not, to reveal a possible situation where only those closest to each individual are benefiting. I took the time to review the activity of 5 curation teams for the month of November and evaluate who they were selecting as the best of the week each time, I have highlighted in red the accounts that are related to the curator as part of the same team of moderation in a community in order to highlight a possible relationship between the beneficiaries and those responsible. Likewise, mark in orange the authors who were selected 2 times in the same month by the person in question. These were the results:

![1.PNG](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVN4AAWaYg7BzDYNARrKXPyZt2SPSnUUKcmDdwFNpHc6G/1.PNG) ![9.PNG](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTKMcQo3UduuAvZ2qKXcLsYwFBiYC4Cr2mTTAj1x3PT3A/9.PNG) ![3.PNG](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdx7xgm4Qwwbu6HcZ3PU5VMV4vChxM9za9dijXUv6xDnu/3.PNG) ![4.PNG](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNdstQztp7cpCSt8ngximN9PJhiVMvryTqfHSiyKKGioQ/4.PNG) ![5.PNG](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdZKwvEkCsmb36uPP3ooKhUA3kETcqM9uLVjaRiousmpL/5.PNG)

After this investigation I highlighted the curators with 2 or more user selections related to themselves and I decided to go deeper for another month to see more clearly some kind of pattern in their actions, deciding to call them "suspicious" the investigation extended a little more to the past. These are the results:

![11.PNG](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSEQsHHYeoemerUqYy1gXXFtFCueEbJ72nDyaWtUgteBE/11.PNG)

This is how I managed to find the conclusion of this investigation, in the following table I show you the number of selections related to themselves in the last 2 months, highlighting in yellow a few that I could identify that are using 50% of their capacity or more to benefit only your friends through the weekly tops.

![10.PNG](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZmxRphfv4BnqCZUu6aWmmfsSfqBKASwGeV9YscjqBonx/10.PNG) ## Highlight system ![8.PNG](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbRHZRKQhJ8vMPaon98LbgUXwWBCzrL5RyHCUKdxWdT4F/8.PNG)

That's all from me, now I tag the leader of every team (or persons with not related cases): cc @adeljose, @msharif, @josevas217, @stef1, @pelon53.