I've been on that side of it as well when a lot of us were flagging his crap last year.
You went after him without free flags – that's honorable!
but with the hardfork it's great to see larger accounts getting involved to try and clean up the abusers and hopefully the curation accounts will do the same.
Yup, even bidbots are now downvoting, so are curation efforts like @curangel where delegators can suggest users to downvote.
What can I say. I was young and naive. Full of youthful enthusiasm and paid the price for it. Need to be done though.
Gotta do what you think is right :)