The initial phase of the campaign is only awareness building. The kitty does have to be delegated power to be able to vote often enough, but she should be able to flag 2500 posts a day, at least, at 1%, leaving red flags on all of them. So far this looks like it will be feasible, and we will be monitoring her.
It is probable that people will deliberately make bogus comments just to self upvote 1%, but this is going to cost them their bandwidth allocation, and all who can help, who want to add to her capacity to deal with this kind of retaliation and keep the red flags coming, will be able to increase her vote power, and we probably can lower her vote strength to the minimum the network will allow.
Note that we are also pocking sticks at steemit.com's refusal to allow a distinction between downvoting and flagging. The interface shows a flag. At reddit, it would be a down arrow and other sites I have seen like stackexchange and others, it can be thumbs up thumbs down.
In all seriousness, the flagging function should not be on chain, but a secondary database that steemit.com also makes available to other systems if they want to use it. Downvoting should not be equated with marking content as plagiarism or any other type of abuse. It's a complex issue that does really need to be addressed and the bot will really bring this to the fore.
Looking at engagement levels on this post (50 comments already), I wonder if my post has helped in the initial phase of your @smackdown.kitty campaign. If you think it has, I would request you to please resteem it. I was hesitating to request that but I thought I should convey my request. Thank you. :)
My apologies. absolutely resteeming your post because you really nail the essential reason why it is not good.
Thank you so much. I see that you posted some more proposals. I'll read them now.
Yes, the bot will need some support to start with and also regular monitoring.
I think if there's a downvote button, it may be used unfairly. Flagging is something users will only do when extremely necessary. I do not see a downvote and only see a flag so all I do is either upvote or not vote at all depending on post quality.
I joined in 3 weeks ago and all I want is to be able to vote generously and to get fair reward for the value I add. I hope Steemit becomes better as a platform. Thank you for your efforts.