Fair play for taking on one of the worst abusers of the whole blockchain. Everybody knows about him and yet very few would stand up to him.
I've been on that side of it as well when a lot of us were flagging his crap last year. Unfortunatly i don't have huge stake for doing this but there were plenty combining to wipe out his rewards. After that he would go back for the full 7 days to wipe out any rewards for each account that had dared to stand against him.
It didn't really bother me as I don't earn much anyway but with the hardfork it's great to see larger accounts getting involved to try and clean up the abusers and hopefully the curation accounts will do the same. Well done.
You went after him without free flags – that's honorable!
Yup, even bidbots are now downvoting, so are curation efforts like @curangel where delegators can suggest users to downvote.
What can I say. I was young and naive. Full of youthful enthusiasm and paid the price for it. Need to be done though.
Gotta do what you think is right :)