"What is the bot going to do waste their downvotes on you?"
Absolutely, and profitably. Downvotes are going to be free. Won't cost them anything to protect their businesses from downvotes by hordes of minnows (if any are so foolish as to try to), and their stakes will enable them to conduct retaliatory flagging campaigns that will soon make examples that others will learn from.
No one rational without massive stake will be flagging whales with their free downvotes. Free downvotes will likely only be used to conduct censorship without cost or retaliatory flags to crush any who dare to oppose profiteering. The downvote pool will not somehow induce tens of thousands of minnows to act in concert, and that's what would be necessary to successfully defend against whale flags.
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Wow, that is a good point I never thought of.
As you can observe, I am familiar with how downvotes are deployed by stakeholders.
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