HF19: Is This What We Want? (Spam Self Vote Galore)

I'll call him out by name.

These are Hive account@crypto-p's claimed rewards from the past 10 days - from self upvoting his substanceless spam comments that he leaves to other people's posts every two minutes:

Claim rewards: 100.261 SBD and 101.675 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 93.881 SBD and 61.966 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 114.597 SBD and 59.280 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 126.366 SBD and 70.936 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 42.876 SBD and 30.884 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 36.504 SBD and 23.790 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 59.849 SBD and 35.815 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 28.944 SBD and 21.992 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 49.565 SBD and 33.901 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 76.583 SBD and 43.263 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 40.702 SBD and 29.675 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 51.114 SBD and 35.546 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 39.983 SBD and 25.718 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 40.902 SBD and 28.607 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 28.715 SBD and 20.457 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 43.122 SBD and 32.906 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 108.656 SBD and 54.516 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 39.344 SBD and 19.980 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 46.914 SBD and 24.084 STEEM POWER
Claim rewards: 71.815 SBD and 39.726 STEEM POWER

They add up to about 1240 SBD and 780 SP in rewards.

Yes, the blockchain allows this.

But it also allows flagging for abuse. Do we, as a community, consider this abuse? Or is this what we want Steemit to be?

I'd be interested to hear.

I'm recharging my voting power at the moment, but once it's filled up, I'm going to be flagging. Even though it will lead to retaliation.

But some of us need to have a set of balls between our legs.