While I completely agree with your comment here, and disagree with almost all the claims made by the OP, I do agree that being flagged for one's opinion is harmful to this platform. Note that I am not a fan of your business model on Steem, and have no fear of flags from you or anyone, yet have never flagged you.
I find your abiity to reason all too apparent, and simply await your recognition that bidbots, even those carefully purged of shitposters as is yours, are destructive of society employed as curators and equal to human persons on social media.
I suspect you allow your profits to blind you to your societal malignance. Like a reformed smoker, I await your evolution from a malign influence to a zealot intent on countering it. After Steem collapses as a result of HF21 and you realize the destructive influence of stake weighting and automated social influence on social discourse, let me know. I'd probably welcome your social effect once you are disabused of your focus on profit, and become devoted to people.
He was not flagged because of opinion and I don't agree with flagging for opinion either. I wasn't even the one who flagged him.
Bid bots are here, they are not going anywhere and I'm one of the select few that care about preventing them being used for garbage and do more than any other to enforce that. If I stopped running a bid bot, the situation would be worse than it is now that SP would be handed to another bid bot owner who doesn't give a shit.
Kinder, gentler votebots is not a solution to bots voting. For a metaphor that really sinks this idea home, have a read at 'The Seventh Rapist', regarding prison rape. Kinder, gentler rapists aren't the solution to the problem of prison rape either.
I didn't flag OP either. I have to say I find your statement that you don't agree with opinion flagging disingenuous, as I have seen what I was certain were opinion flags you've flown on multiple occasions. I'll also note certain of your associations strongly indicate support for opinion flagging. I do concede you've not flagged me for it, despite motivation.
Proof or bullshit.
Why because I did a curation project with him? Bullshit as well.
I reckon you are better able to dig through steemd than I. Perhaps you have strange ideas about what is spam, and have convinced yourself that you were countering spam. Even if I spent time looking back, in such case all I'd do is waste both our time.
If you're not going to opinion flag from here on out, good. I wish you'd address how bots voting degrades humanity, and being less rapine about it isn't solving the problem.
I never opinion flag, it's not something I'm starting from here on out. Seems very odd you accuse me of it yet have no proof or too lazy to come up with some "example" of it.
Nothing I can do about bot voting, linear rewards opened that door and I don't see it stopping when 90% of the bot owners are AFK.
Either you aren't being honest about your motivations for flying the flags you've flown, or have mentally blocked them out, or have convinced yourself you flew them for other reasons. Handing you a list of flags won't prove anything, and all I can base my opinion on is what I can see. I can't see what's in your head. I can't prove your motivation no matter how hard I try. I've said I was convinced you flew flags for what appeared to me to be personal dislike or disagreement on opinion, and I can't prove to you what was in my head either. Speaking of appearances...
Says the bidbot owner. Do you even grasp the vapidity of that claim?
So bullshit.
Everyone I flag is for spam/abuse/harassment.
I explained it earlier, I am the best bot owner you will find. I flag spam, I prevent shit being voting on, I proactively spend thousands of hours finding and stopping shit. If I stopped, the SP would go to another bid bot owner that doesn't care. So you would be worse off than you are now.
If there was a way to get rid of all bid bots and make trending 100% organic and authentic, I'd be all for it. Even before when bid bots didn't exist, It was all sold votes and circle jerks. Now it is public, transparent, and fair.