I must first admit that this is not a popular or comfortable topic to talk about. In addition, I am not qualified to talk about this. That said, someone must say this, so I am saying it. This post is not meant to be an encyclopedia of abuse that is visible on social blockchain like ours. There were some comprehensive posts written by 
Back in the steem blockchain, these are the abuse types that were considered in scope for 
Times have changed since that post above have published. Bid-bots are practically a thing of the past. Although some still exists, not exactly thriving, but they are out there. We have made and are making quite a lot of progress.
I like all that and appreciate the facts. However, at the same time I do not think we have addressed all kind of abuse of this blockchain with the list above. So I like add to that list:
These are beyond the capabilities of standard rule based abuse fighting systems. So of it was address by SFR, now Hive-DR. However, many of these are quite controversial and dare I say, political.
Now the relevant people this post is directed towards, they all understand what this previous bullets mean. Also I do not want to make this post an 'encyclopedia of abuse'. I am neither capable nor interested to write such a post.
First of all, we must talk about 
As you can see, that our first line of defense is seriously under-funded. There used to be 1M plus delegation into these accounts. There amount of spam these accounts handle, this amount of funding is not nearly good enough.
Remedy:
@guiltyparties)@hivewatchers can use the idle downvote power of multiple community membersOption - 1 is difficult to accomplish for most users, as
Option - 2, if implemented can be much more useful, as I know for a fact that majority of communities downvote power remains idle (this includes me, although I feel, that I use it a lot)
I know back in the steem days Anthony's SFR was quite effective, especially against the bid-bots, so was OCDB. I think both lost some amount of delegation and are in the process of reorganizing, but they remain active and quite effective. There are a group of individuals who rally around these projects and downvote any individual who bought bid-bot votes. There is a recent revival in the form of a program called x30 and the account called 
Then we have 
And me of course. We as community members are the last line of defense against abusers. Unfortunately, we are significantly underused. Last I saw a statistics during the steem days, that only about 7% of the stake is used for downvoting. Likely that number is lower now. Perhaps 
Only thing I can say about that, is have no fear. There are a huge number of large stakeholder that is out there who can hear a retaliatory downvote. There are excellent examples out there right now in the form of serial abusers who tried retaliatory downvotes to random minnow accounts. Well you can imagine what happened there.
Today there is a serious price jump on Hive. I expect this is probably a precursor of many such price jumps in future. As this new project gains momentum, we can, and we will potentially see higher prices. Higher the price, higher the incentive for abuse. Therefore, it is our duty as a community member to step up. But I will end with a deep thought from a friend of mine. Abuse fighting is not easy, and it can get very thankless, dark and lonely. But again: "it's necessary!"
Friedrich Nietzsche said:
Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.
PS: None of the projects asked me to write this. These are my personal thoughts.
