This sounds like an interesting project. It will be interesting to see your definition of abuse.

Since HIVE offers rewards to writers, the platform needs a vigorous debate about what is and is not abuse.

I like #hivewatchers . I think they have good intent in protecting against copyright violations and spam. There are spam accounts that need to be downvoted to a negative reputation.

Unfortunately #hivewatchers has history of piling on and destroying the accounts for relatively minor transgressions. Even worse, they often fail to remove people from their DV list after they correct the error.

#hivewatchers should always communicate the reason for the downvote. Most people will comply.

I think HIVE benefits from a vigorous debate about what is and is not abuse.

BTW: I think that #tagspam is a serious problem. Many people list every money producing tag on every posts. Tag spam ends up creating a great deal of irrelevant posts for a given tag and it abuses the reward pools for the tags.

I understand that Leo Finance is aggressive about DVing people who post articles unrelated to cryptofinance using their tags.

People who want to defend a tag from spam need to discuss the issue before launching in on a DV war.