Spam, scams, and plagiarism aren't matters of how we feel, but matters of fact.
In my experience and from reading, 70% of the time, decisions are emotional and not logical. Logic comes out after the decision has been made to defend or justify an emotional response. You have to implement measures, techniques and use tools to avoid biasing from built in filters.
If someone's posting is an issue then call them out publicly. That way, we can all learn from the process and not have to depend on Whales to be the protector of the ecosystem. Rich people with power are often the destroyer of systems. Elon Musk and twitter comes to mind.
Hive is a pure plutocracy. You take the words out of my mouth.
100% of the time, 70% of the time spam, scams, and plagiarism are matters of fact, and our incompetence to tolerate them isn't a matter of how we feel about them. The platform has become unusable because of spam in the past. Phishing and other scams are constant attacks on our number. I have personally lost ~400 of my tokens to someone that got my key. Plagiarism cannot be allowed on a social media platform. It's actually illegal to help people profit from stealing other people's stuff, not to mention it replaces society with cuckoos.
It may rustle our jimmies, but that's not why these problems have to be prevented. They literally destroy the platform regardless of how we feel.