Actually I totally agree with what you are pointing out @steveblack, unfortunately during these flag wars some innocent crossfire casualties happened.
There are some new minnows who started out (with good content) and hoping to catch up with everyone / intermediate minnows who just so happened ran out of VP and would like to bless a writer (of good content) using the bot service; unfortunately were one of those casualties.
So even during flag wars, those who fired the bullets (of downvotes) blindly and targeted everyone as a whole to me isn't the wisest way to do and deem it as "collateral damage".
My point is, having bot services such as these are actually both handy and disastrous; depending how it is used / vandalized. If there is a way a bot service could actually identify (maybe work with original works / cheetah) good / horrible contents, maybe that would make minnows lives better and also at the same time, teach and guide them to post here correctly and also learn to commune with everyone else.
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