but humanly they hurt more than I expected.

No humans here, just us greedy crabs.
While I was crab fishing off the coast of mexico, one day we caught this big fella, he was easily 1.5x everybody else and had this move where he was efficiently breaking off the claws of the other crabs in the bucket.
I should have dropped him back in to make more like him, but it was the other guy's daily bread, so he wasn't as emotionally impacted about the situation.

Let 'the ant' know it's nothing personal, just business.
Cutthroat crapitalism at its finest.
Money from nothing.
Nothing escapes for free.

I'd add a reputation check, lowered reps nearly always have a legitimate reason.
As for finding quality, you will have to whitelist the ones not deserving of a blacklist and bias curation towards them.
It'll give the ant something to do.
Learning the crowd is where the efficiency is.
Knowing who is putting out vetted 'good' content would be valuable info to have.

Having a word length parameter is just bot fodder.
Memes cannot have their visual impact on the conversation measured by word counts.
Maybe in comments received, but even then, many of us have been here for many years and have said what we need to say to our friends and simply vote them, no comment needed.
Ergo, learn the crowd.

There aren't that many of us, atp.
The quicker the restivus can learn the crowd, the faster we can counter whatever it may be that the crowd wants to see changed.
Learning who is who is an unlikely event for most of the introverts.
A vetted whitelist would help with that.

You might want to check the spaminator list against the hivewatcher's list, they may be the same.
Marky's list is his own.

Freebornsociety flags to find the mythical 'abused by downvotes' authors.
That has been it's main function for years.
It follows almost all of the flaggers I become aware of.
IF you see one it's not following, lmk.

Unicorns are more likely, at this point, to be found before the anti-abuse crowd is proven to be flagging users over content ideology.
Not all flaggers are anti-abuse crowd, some are independent/haven't been doing it for years.
IF you come across somebody that is truly undeserving of their flags, sound off, eh?
It's likely that they do deserve it and you simply aren't privy to the why of the situation.

IF you see somebody flagging content for its ideology, let me know that, too.

Revenge flagging is also an issue.
It generally denotes an anger management issue.