RE: Haters Gonna Hate - The day of 1,000 downvotes
So I am pretty new to your account, and so far I like most of what you have done. I looked at a list people you put up either today or yesterday calling them out for leaving spammy posts. One thing I noticed is that the one who had the largest payout for his comment did not seem like it was really spam to me. Specifically it was the post from @hynix you mentioned here: https://steemit.com/spam/@pleasestop/removable-rewards-2018-05-16
It is short and arguably doesn't contribute much, but I think calling it out as spam is going a bit too far. In the context of the post it was a comment on (which was literally just a picture of a nice sunset), it makes sense that the comment would be short and sweet. So I think you messed up with that one. People would be pissed of because you can be wrongly costing some people money. If I could offer advice, I'd say that it is wise to keep in mind the pitfalls of community/vigilante justice. One of them is that you can make a mistake that ends up costing somebody a lot of money because you, intentionally or not, send a mass of people to downvote their content. Maybe err more on the side of saying that something is not spam if it seems to be in a grey area.
Basically, "With great power comes great responsibility". https://tenor.com/view/spiderman-responsibility-gif-4589950
I appreciate your feedback, you make some great points but there's an important detail that I realize I'm leaving out. The account you mention is actually part of a voting circle. Look at every post and comment and it's the exact same accounts voting, every single time. That's why this account is on my list, but I need to point that out a little more clearly.
A secondary point is that I'm not automatically downvoting these posts myself right now for exactly this reason. I want everyone to use their objective judgement to determine if they feel a post is worthy of a flag.
My larger mission is simply to remove the incentive for creating bad content. I appreciate your remarks about vigilante justice, but if you dig into my posts and comments you'll see clear evidence quite the contrary.
I will always err on the side of protecting the rewards pool and the blockchain itself from the impact on bandwidth from superfluous comments. Any account that is producing legitimate content can easily recover from a few lost rewards and we have clearly seen that the community is happy to continue supporting actual content.