I flagged your comment after several in a row by you trying to do nothing but insult me. The flag was well-deserved and extremely rare.
Also, trail followers have their own settings. They can choose whether to follow flags or not. There is nothing "disgusting" or "abusive" about it. Please learn how the trail functions work before commenting on it, if you're not sure.
This is a key point in this exchange. ATSD's followers elected to follow his downvotes as well as his upvotes. Presumably because they trust his judgement.
Another key point is this: there is a built in protection against ATSD abusing his DV following. If he does so, he will lose that trust (and as a result, his following). FWIW, i am seriously skeptical that most of his (or anyones) followers would consider DVing a comment where someone drops the C-bomb on him (or the N-bomb on his mom) an abuse of the DV.
if the follower really didn't know that he was following downvotes, then it seems to be a caveat emptor issue. He could have easily opted out of downvoting.
I am a man of truth. If I call you a cunt, it's because your actions were that of a cunt. I believe it was actually a suck up I referred to you as though-- which your actions backed up. I told you I didn't want you messaging me again, also true.
I don't care if I had called you a smelly, homeless nigger with a whore for a mother. What I said to you is irrelevant, because it was said to YOU. And as such, if you felt it warranted a flag then you should have flagged me with your own account. Not with other's.
Considering I spoke to one of my followers and asked him if he was aware his voting power was used to downvote me, to which he was appalled and ended up revoking his power from your curation trail, I would say that it is obviously not clear enough that the voting power will be used for flagging.
He said he did not know it would be used for such purposes, and considering you personally approached him in steemitchat and convinced him to sign up to streemian and give you his power, it is on YOU to inform him of the possibility of his power being used to flag posts that you personally deem worthy of a flag.
As I said, I am a man of truth. If I call you a cunt, it's because you're a cunt. And you are a cunt. You have no right to the moral high ground, so stop attempting to claim it.
Steemit has so much potential, but the likes of you are tainting it and holding it back from progressing.
I'd agree with your point about the misuse of trail downflagging for personal matters.
However, I'd disagree here. I think @ats-david has good intentions despite the dispute you guys are unfortunately having.
Well, I hope that I may bear witness to these good intentions in future, because that is certainly not what close observation has revealed to me thus far.