You see, @silentscreamer, it's very easy for people like that to tell themselves they did an innocent upvote, or whatever, and triggered @mack-bot.

This is what he did a few months ago. Now, multiply that by at least 100.

As for @patrice not responding, the next most logical step would have been entering @steemcleaner's Discord. But, I guess that's too complicated for us crypto folks.