Read on, and I end this by stating the balance of my reasons why this account, post and mandate is offensive in many reasons. I did not have to dignify this with a reply, I chose to.
I supported this community bot initiative actually for many of the reasons you named in your post about valid, reasoned, and rational ideas why this would support the greater good.
It keeps new people encouraged when they see votes. I was new once, so I know how that feels.
I also cannot be on Steemit as much as I would like anymore, but I have put in the work.
I am well over 6500 posts on here, made a ton of blogs and useful content and am and have been trying to provide good content to people.
I am on here all the time, encouraging people.
I have put in a lot of time and effort on here and not seen much in the way of payouts in the average month, being on here since August.
This bot supports several things I believe are important to this community, which clearly has issues like any community.
That last point ties to this one --- you are never going to please everyone, so you need to pick some battles.
Do I have issues with bots on here and even the bot that I allowed my name to be tied to? Yes. But for me, the Community good outweighs the bad by margin of more than 2-1. And I want to support the community...especially since I cannot be on here as much due to my personal circumstances now after being run over by a car and disabled in every area of my life.
Your opinion is not the only one, and it is that -- an opinion. It does not contain all the FACTS -- and your opinion is not the only one.
I flagged this and I never flag anything for lots of reasons here from the choice of the user name you picked, to what that user name stands for in life which is offensive at best, to showing complete lack of sensitivity as such for real world people and problems, to hate speech, to threatening people who made a decision that is different than your self imposed policing on here, which lets face it -- has not worked out for anyone so far who chooses to act like this.
RE: Punisher #1: The issue with the 1% votes...