They are hunting people, good people. There are so many contests outhere asking for votes which goes against the Steemit policy and this "cleaners" don´t give a f...k. I´m with you, helping the smaller accounts is what matters for the future.
And guess what they are making this FLAG system a contest... they even have automatized bots that confirm entries for plagiarism and stuff like that.
It´s a shame this is how blogging on Steemit will end, but maybe something will change in this last 6 months.
For the record once I learned asking for votes was a no-no I stopped doing that like a year ago. I hope so. This seems to be a recent change and not for the better in my opinion. I thought working we me and having me adjust my content a bit would have been a much better solution than to kill off my contests. And for my work to be considered spam and unworthy of being on the platform that did hurt my feelings. I guess deep down I knew better about how steem worked and about what I was doing. I had just held out hope that it would work and I could work with people that had a different opinion of me and resolve things in a winning way for everyone. Alas that wasn't the case and people with big accounts started disliking what I did and wanted me off the platform. I can take a hint I'm not wanted and my contest and posts weren't very good.