@themarkymark It is regrettable that people are resorting to threats, but money and social media bring out the worst in people, and Steemit combines both. I'm sure you anticipated that response from some, inexcusable as it is.
However, having been designated a bad actor by your system, resulting in every post of mine being tagged by your bot, I can understand the frustration some people are feeling.
I use my account to publish original content using automated tools. Some people may not like my content, and that is fine. But it is legitimate content, and I consider it to be art. I have described my purpose and method in detail:
https://loggiaonfire.com/magazine/it_is_time_for_humanity_to_eat_our_feedback_1490821089.html
I suspect I was "referred" to your system by someone that does not like me. Plenty of people don't, because of my association with John McAfee. An association that I leveraged to help bring eyes to the Steemit platform.
The comments give a good idea of the traffic that resulted. I did not need to publish here, I have my own blog. I did so to give the platform a boost. Mr. McAfee was gracious enough to play along and, as usual, got only abuse for his trouble.
Rather than threaten you, I am going to humbly suggest that perhaps you are casting a bit of a wide net and, as a result, waging a campaign of automated slander against people using the platform in good faith. Regardless of you motives, that is not a good outcome.
Or perhaps you evaluated my content and genuinely believe it to be such garbage that it qualifies as spam. That is your business, but realize that this attitude holds Steemit back. I've spoken with quite a few individuals over the last year, some with very large audiences elsewhere, that will not come over because of this kind of hostility towards content producers.
Anyway, these are my thoughts. You may continue to denigrate my work - no harm will come to you from my direction. But I wanted my perspective to be in the record.
As a footnote, I must say that it is interesting to me that your profile tagline discusses not taking life too seriously. I subscribe to that philosophy to a religious extent. But it is hard to reconcile that sentiment with the image of a self-appointed policeman such as you have become. I can't say I get it.