From the Steemit Faq: (condensed)
What is considered spam or abuse?
Asking for money, views, upvotes, follows, or resteems.
Leaving nearly identical or materially similar comments on multiple posts.
Comments that are unrelated to the topic of discussion.
Sending users a link to your blog or a post if it is not relevant to the conversation.
Posts or comments that include little or nothing more than an offer to trade follows or upvotes.
From the flag pop up:
Some common reasons to flag:
... Spam
Sorry I dont mean to disagree or give you a hard time, I am just trying to illustrate that getting flagged on this cause is really no big deal. But - you were breaching many ideas that cross very firmly into spam territory. I hope youre not angry with me, like I said its a small nick on your reputation, the only thing that is damaged is your ego, right? It's a bit different than nuking a country lol!
Not angry at all, on the contrary quite enjoying the engagement around this topic.
Apologies for the delay in completing my response, my bandwidth vanishes for hours daily, which was the case again today. I hope it's not something that I'm doing to cause it. It's weird because I'm posting less. I'm going to have to look into it.
I agree with the guidelines as posted, but they remain guidelines. For example this is the supposed "rule" for down voting. In my book it's a guideline.
In the end it boils down to individual personalities. Use the guidelines OR use them for innovation. I don't think it's important that we necessarily have to agree. You have a view and I have one too. I think it's more important that we are able to remain tolerant of all steemit "species"...lol!.
So where, do I stand in all of this. As I said I will probably tone down my approach in future.
I've enjoyed your views and I have taken them into account. Hopefully, you not angry either, and we could engage further on other topics in future. I have elected to follow you as to observe some of your work, perhaps there is more to see and learn.