It's good you're keeping this on the agenda, it really is something we need to keep an eye on, and you've reminded me that I must alter my flag delegations, I guess there's no point delegating to SFR anymore.
I don't like DV trailing, I feel it makes you a visible target for retaliation. If you're going to appear as a target, you may as well DIY and hit one or two people with 100% rather than several with smaller trail amount.
I also like to be in control of my own DVing, and it doesn't take much to chuck in a couple of DVs every day.
I'm actually quite proud to have had crystalliu waste his entire DV power on me recently, but I've switched to someone else who you might also be DVing. One person at a time as you say!
I must check out that bot-api thing. I'm much happier keeping the smaller abusers in check.
I think the healing thing is nice, regular DVers should be encouraged to do a weekly 'heal me' post if they get retaliation, that could also serve to raise awareness of the issue, as well make it a bit more fun.
I miss SFR on that note, I liked the gamification of flagging.
Yes, we must keep this on the agenda. As soon as price rallies not only we incentivize spammers. We also incentivize our old timer circle votes. Most of these people have been there for a while so they know how to squeeze every last drop.
I don't trail DV either.