It's been brought to my attention by a few users that a site offering an auto upvote service here on the STEEM network is beginning to show signs of forming a flag brigade with their entrusted voting power. One thing that struck me as off about the entire ordeal was that this service was more than capable of taking it's income earned through siphoning a vote or two a day from it's users and powering up to defend themselves against a recent bot powered flag attack..

Instead they chose to start gesturing towards using their borrowed voting power to flag their opposition. While I can understand the want to defend oneself the problem here is that they plan to use keys entrusted to them for upvoting purposes.. And no where in their TOS nor site would you be able to opt out of being part of their offensive flag fury.

Personally, rather than bring others borrowed votes into the equation I'd have simply been powering up my account to a higher level than my attackers. However I'm not the owner of the services in question here and after reading a bunch of community response have decided to share the scripts I could find from the back end of one of these auto-voting services to share with the community in hopes someone takes the initiative to make a free of charge auto-voting utility for our community.

From briefly looking over the scripts I noticed that this likely isn't enough to have a site set up as a turnkey and will likely need some work before it's able to be released. A GUI needs to be built as well as some dependencies installed such as Python and Piston in order to operate this script.

One thing I found interesting is the fact one of the services offering auto voting is actually charging people either a vote a day or a few dollars a month to access software that is essentially open sourced.. Hopefully with the sharing of this code we see a free to use auto-vote service come to life in the future.

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