Flagging: I'm back on the job! And a new criteria for flagging!

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·@neoxian·
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Flagging: I'm back on the job! And a new criteria for flagging!
That's right spammers, beware!  I'm back on the job.  In spite of what I said in https://steemit.com/steemit/@neoxian/welp-i-m-done-flagging I couldn't really give up flagging.  When I'm browsing "bitcoin" and see a story that has nothing to do with "bitcoin", my flagging finger starts to twitch.  

Of course, I'm still going to use the criteria I outlined in https://steemit.com/steemit/@neoxian/what-doyourpart-is-all-about.  There is a new one I'd like to add though.  With the four post limit that was recently added (which is awesome btw!), spammers have adopted a new technique to game the system.  They will post some article on their own blog and then spam out comments pointing back to it all over the place, either randomly, or under popular blogs where they think they'll get more attention.  In this case, it would be very inefficient to try to flag all those comments, I'll burn out my voting power in no time, but rather, I'll just flag the post that all the comments are pointing to, and explain my flag there.

Credit to @pfunk  for performing this type of flag first (or at least, before me).  You can see this flagging work here:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@jillstein2016/steemit-will-be-bigger-than-facebook

The war against spam continues! Pew pew pew!
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