(13.14) d) Following HF21 there have been a lot of users using their downvotes on what they feel is abuse. Often what they downvote is highly subjective. Our work targets specific scopes of fraud and exploitation, including cases that may either be invisible to the majority of the userbase (there are a set of specialized skills involved in being on our core team) or too challenging to address.

Over the years we have developed a manual social network analysis capability that we use to discover organized exploitation rings. Where a normal user will see a single user account, we see it for what it is: an automated bot account in a cluster of 650 other similar bot accounts. We can't expect normal users, who should be enjoying the Steem ecosystem, to pick up the slack.

Engagement of regular users and stakeholders is not a substitution for a systemic approach honed by years of experience.