I would be interested in why you feel this is needed on chain. I don't see the value that HiveWatchers brings to the table when spam is limited by a users Resource Credits and the community at large has free downvotes to curate with.
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@patrickulrish Its not just about spam. Plagiarism, ID theft and other seriously harmful actions are taking place everyday. Downvotes are free, yes but not everybody can use them without fear of getting downvoted back from those people who has hundreds of accounts. And not everybody have enough time to investigate those posts everyday. Most of the users in Hive are content creators. They are spending their time on creating content. Fighting with abuse is a hard job that not everybody can do. But everybody should be careful of what content they are voting. There are bigger issues about mass abuse. I believe what Hive Watchers doing is necessary but needs improvements.
The problem is they don't specialize in those fields nor maintain different lists to my knowledge. That means I have to judge their list at it's lowest denominator of abuse reasoning and thus I judge it by their attacks on "spam". That being said even that determination is becoming very questionable based on events like this one where they simply didn't like the effort a user was placing.
That subjectiveness is the most fertile breeding ground for tyranny I've seen on this chain. The community gives them trust to fight actual abuse and they're terrorising users for posting pictures that have near no rewards. Where are they on whales with self described shitposts? This group remains silent and does nothing. If they are attacking small content creators but leaving big "low effort" posts alone then are they really doing anything to help the band of small users?
The ID theft lists are maintained on a separate list based on input from more than HiveWatchers is my understanding. If I am off base here I would love to know what HiveWatchers contributes to these lists. I'd also love to see some for of their documentation as you described for what this group considers spam and abuse. I've requested that multiple times in their Discord with no response.
Most importantly I hope condenser operators are recognizing the poor judgement of groups like HiveWatchers and makes these kinds of blacklist opt-in by end users. There's no reason I should be forced to be influenced by one small subgroup of user's interpretation of what is supposed to be on a censorship resistant chain. Instead allow blacklist markets to form and users can follow lists that actually do the things you described above instead of going after people like you'll see in any number of their appeals channel.