RE: So I just flagged a spammer with ~3400 accounts voting numbered comments..

There should be some kind of method put in place where we can stop blatant abuse without it draining the voting power of others. If all the decent people who care about the community spend so many votes on preventing abuse, they won't be able to provide anything to the real content creators and more of the reward pool will go to "scratch your back if you scratch mine" and the abusers who don't get caught.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have done what you did, but I wish there were other ways of preventing this that weren't so costly. What about nominating abusers for freezing their accounts the way we nominate witnesses but without cost to vp? Or two kinds of flagging where a certain high number of non-botany non multiple accounts agree on freezing....but I guess no way to determine what's a multiple account...maybe if 15 witnesses agree that it's abuse...? Something like that?

How much was he making before you stepped in? @clayboyn told me when he got there it was at .20 per comment