Great idea, I think cross checking all comments would be too much, but I could start doing that if the commenters' score reached say -20. then as you say see how many of their past, say, 100 comments, repeat. If too many do, blacklist.
A problem with warning them is, my own bot will get flagged by itself, lol. This means that there are other bots out there that will get caught up. Maybe I could just have an exemption list. But would probably need to manually do that
I just saw an account that was posting variations of a comment saying 'nice post/picture/video...', but not actually voting. They would be a candidate for a flag. You wouldn't have to see many of their comments to detect this.
The bot getting flagged could be a issue. The wording of the warning will be important. I think it should try to be helpful rather than antagonistic. I can see it's a tricky line to tread
completely agree @steevc flagging is a tricky touchy subject. The instant reaction is to retaliate as there is an attack on your freedom on Steemit.
I don't agree with downvoting at all, as it allows a type of censorship, and ends with a war of flagging which in turn becomes just as vicious circle and there are no winners, just wasted time, energy and a lot of ill will towards Steemit. Ill will towards Steemit is not good, when people a p!ssed they tend to tell more people....
I think there are legitimate uses for flagging. We need it to deal with spam and abuse as we don't want that here. There's no central moderation, so users have to do it
yea that's one reason I am hesitant, but if done right no 'normal' poster should get flagged