I've been flagged loads of times by various abusers, but I tend to go after those who cannot do me much damage. Haejin attacked me ages ago when I called him out. My main target these days is @crystalliu who is taking many dollars each week on junk posts as certain vote sellers refuse to blacklist him. They prefer to take his dirty money. He flags me, but he never has much SP and he runs down his VP. He has loads of other accounts doing the same.
The freedom Steem gives us is open to abuse, but many of the big players opt to not do anything about it. So much for the crab bucket.
Sometimes calling out those bots which don't flag him works wonders =D
People have asked the vote sellers to blacklist him, but they are not interested. It just makes Steem look bad. I have posted about this guy and got more people to flag him, but with $20 on lots of comments it takes a big account to hurt him. We just need to remove his profit.
Which vote sellers?
booster and promobot
Yeah, those two care the least. Those will suffer the most with the new EIP =D
While I do agree that many large stakeholders turn a blind eye to such abuse; there will always bee good whales who will do everything in their power to counter it. One such example is @acidyo.