Thank you for this candid message, I appreciate it.

First I would like to clarify that you were not flagged by any of our accounts.

Our original argument is that a down vote / flag is the message, and that it is much more effective at to the point than a comment. It "says" succinctly that there is a disagreement and creates action backing up that disagreement.

I admit though that it may not be clear why exactly a flag was made without an explanatory comment. We have been discussing adding this to our approach, which is what you are suggesting here. I also admit that comments allow other users to flag the bot and so lower it's rep, so it is also strategic.

We've been hearing the critique a lot that the bot is too indiscriminate and needs to be smarter. We're also talking about this and I think it's likely that #projectsmackdown-v2 will be coming in the next few weeks with a revised approach. I think this new approach would be less horrifying for people who don't know the system, and more horrifying for those that do and decide to continue 😼

I'm not sure how I fell aboue randowhale and whaleshare. I need to look into it more. I create a similar bot to that at @treeplanter for @kedjom-keku as a donation service to help save a forest. But whether or not these things are abuse, I think at present that they are not. However the choice is whether or not your want to support a whale further enriching themselves by renting out their SP. I'm not against business, but seeing as the distribution of SP is so skewed to the top, I would not want to personally participate in using such a service.

In the case of @treeplanter the owner is not a whale but has gotten delegated SP from dolphins and orca level SP holders.