Didn't flag your comment to zero at all.
You flagged it from $12 to 0.22 (at the time of your flag), at that point I thought there was some reasoning with you as you didn't nuke it to sub $0. Then you upvote your comment "Fixed" to $140 (one of the flags still took $40 of our curation posts, I suspect it was too old at the time you got to it, not sure) I decided you are going to do what you want to do.
Sorry if I missed your small unintelligible "planning on locking it off for 5 days" in this giant rant about my self-voting.
I was the first and one of the few (only one other responded) to respond to your initial post. I got upvotes from many of the bot owners which you then downvoted.
Also removed my flag on your "community service" when I saw you message (fixed). (Looked like just bot announcement posts).
I appreciated that, and so did my curators, it's hard enough time supporting curation without whales backing. We spend a crap ton of time digging through garbage to find good posts to promote.
BTW, At the price I paid for my Steem, You'll have a hard time making me feel bad for self-voting in that giant shitshow that Steem is right now.
That I have nothing to say to, I posted earlier I am very conflicted about self-voting. While I am starting to come to the terms of "it's your stake to use as you want" I still have the clause of "within reason when it doesn't dramatically affect the community". Upvoting pointless comments to the maximum financial efficiency then demanding everyone to follow your new rule while flagging innocents does not make you look like a reward pool savior you claim to be.
I'm all for stopping the garbage on Steem, I spend a lot of time trying with no success. 3.5 days max age as compared to 5 days isn't going to magically clean up Steem, especially when no one wants to do it.
Flagging of innocents is the main problem here. It's like: the government is not listening so I will kill innocent bystanders who are using the government's services for the government to take notice. Isn't that terrorism?
What have those innocent people done except use services to help themselves live better lives? And not on 6 days old posts, but post not older than a few hours! Why would you downvote them?
I am scared to use any bots as of now coz I can't afford a downvote. The SBD I earn pay my rent, they buy groceries, they help me pay for my 4 year old's daycare fees so that the mother and I can earn enough to provide him with a good sustainable life!
Downvoting honest, good and Innocent posts to make your point is not the way to go about it.
Like someone said here, tackle the root of the problem, please. Have a dialogue with Steemit Inc, with all bot owners and come to a common agreeable solution.
A humble request 🙏🏼✨
#nailedit