I said:

It would be very, very easy to program this process to do it nearly instantly.

You said:

That's not true. Because I actually was just saluting each individual in person, using a coustomized sign for each one, that took my own time to create. A bot can't do that. Bot's are pre-programed.

I don't care enough to write you a bot which could inject into an image the author name of an introduction post, dynamically create an image, and post it, but trust me (or do the research yourself), it is certainly true and possible.

As to your larger concerns about the network and how you were treated by Smooth as an individual, I recommend taking it up with that individual in chat.

From your perspective, you were providing a valuable service to new users. From other's perspective, you were adding spam to the network. Since we're talking about subjective value, who gets to decide who is right and what process do they use to do that?

For the record, I don't agree with the site completely hiding all comments from those negative reputations. I think there should still be an option to see them, for those who want to, much like the "show" button does for reputations between (0 and 25).