Dude, I couldn't agree more. I'm putting together something for tonight that I witnessed last night. This person commented literally a hundred times and sent .01 SBD to the @minnowbooster bot for self-votes. The votes got him 20 cents a pop. Do that a couple hundred times and . . . well, you get the idea.

It is our civic duty. I have only recently begun to flag these people. And seriously, I feel good about doing it. Many of us work our butts off to get a 10 dollar post, a 5 dollar post, etc . . . I understand using the bots to get more exposure, but some of the ways they are being used now is malicious to the platform.

Like you said, "Rampant self-upvoters. These are the people who are THE WORST.
Plagiarizers. These people are stealing content and re-posting it as if it is content that they have created. These people are essentially thieves."

Yep . .