Thanks, Mako! I've been doing this for a while and am glad people are beginning to come around about flagging.

If the community were to unite and coordinate flagging, we could thwart so much abuse.

One of the biggest problems is some flaggers think that by lone wolfing it and not working with others that they would be able to effect the same change. They don't and never will. Well unless @ned gets to flagging the high level abusers.

Think his approach has been mostly hands off as I have observed much abuse get through the cracks and have been powerless to stop it. It's a damn shame and hope people like you and I can grow and rally against that sort of stuff in the future.

It's good that you have found a specific niche for flagging. I think that it is helpful to focus on certain patterns of abuse and sustained pressure via downvotes will discourage said patterns from continuing.

I remember we tried this approach against the SBD lottery vote farmers in the past with some success. Focused efforts do work. Analogy is the magnifying glass and sunlight. Think about it.