Well , that's a relief! I was afraid because one of the whales who's posts you regularly support, punished me by abusing the flag on a completely unrelated post when I flagged a spam comment one of his coordinated efforts left on a project that I support.

I was afraid because you support him, I would be on the MARK by assuming that you support such flag abuse.

To clarify then, you call it coordinated.. I call it non-organic and automated. It's a form of censorship to prevent anyone from promoting anything or any point of view. Calling it spam doesn't get anyone a free pass in my book. One person's spam restricteratornatorfreedom fighter of spam, is another person's terrorist. If the process is proven as transparent, where a post is checked in a transparent and democratic way, then you could begin to call it organic or curation or anything like that. Democracy is very important to many of us. That's why we don't like Google+ or Facebook.

All of my votes are manual.

A flag (downvote) is also a vote. So what you said is not true. You have actually applied votes without reading them. Judging from your frequency of flagging, you seem to prefer downvotes over upvotes too. You also only upvote posts by accounts that you follow. This is fare enough. It's the frequency of the coordinated effort votes that are a concern to a lot of us. I just wanted to get that out in the open.