Hey Brian,
Sorry to reply to such an old post this far out, but I wanted to tell you about something that I think could be an issue for a lot of newbies like myself. I started using steemwhales.com/clean-trending to downvote obvious trending trash that was being bot-upvoted.. Today one of those people totally wiped out one of my threads and I am sure they hit my rep score too.
I want people to now there is a penalty for trying to clean up bots in "trending." I didn't reply to him (and I was surprised he even let me know who he was by bitching at me that way,) restored my own post, and everything is cool.
Sure would like my reputation points restored though...
Here's what he wrote, which I thought was pretty unfair given my downvote was legit, and his was pure revenge (and false about me C&Ping others work, which I never do without proper attribution):
danyelk (67)in news • 1 hour ago
RE: A former iconic American car brand...FORD MOTOR COMPANY...cutting a slew of models...THANKS FREE TRAITORS!
You flag other peoples good work and your self copy paste stuff shame on you loser!
Fighting the abusers is going to be a rough road and I'm surprised I haven't been attacked by @haejin yet even though I have never flagged him since he is too powerful for me to take on.
Ever heard of this danyelk guy? He hurt me bad...