I wouldn't say biased, but being involved mostly with the art community here and elsewhere it means that this particular case was more likely to draw my attention and interest. But I've spent a bit of time today reviewing Hivewatchers last monthly report and I have a difficult time finding any "spam" reports that I would classify as such or see any reason for Hivewatchers to get involved. Yes there's people there recycling 4 year old posts and getting "caught." And the last one I looked at the post had earned .51 four years ago from 4 voters and the earnings on the repeat post were from completely different people which speaks to the fact that recycling previous content often puts it in front of a new audience. There are even Actifit users getting warned because they don't use a brand new photo when they pretty up each of their daily step counts.
The "social consensus" that's being placed on HIVE is quite opposite to how 99% of users interact with all other social media (fast, casual, low effort, high frequency, unoriginal content, etc.) and I think that shows in our stagnant userbase. It's also not a one size fits all approach that can and should be enforced across multiple websites and applications that may be designed with very different expectations in mind.
My position is simply that there are infractions that can be agreed upon much more readily. Identity theft, phishing attacks, vote buying schemes, and true spam in the form of automated mass commenting, etc. Those can be considered "laws", and I feel comfortable with a powerful entity like Hivewatchers enforcing them. Social norms should be left to individual communities, apps, and people to influence. In the real world I wouldn't want the police to get involved because I wore the same shirt to work three days in a row.
Lastly, if that no-repost rule is truly a consensus that was reached by the community, then it needs to be revisited at regular intervals because the community is changing and newcomers should be helping to shape the platform rather than be dictated to and told what HIVE is and how it's to be used. What was consensus a year and a half ago might not be now. So discussions (often arising out of complaints of course!) like these should inherently be a part of the platform, however whiny and irritating they may seem!