Hello @themarkymark, I very well acknowledge the usefulness of your Global Blacklist API as it will prevent abuse and fraud on the Steem blockchain. It's a noble project which should be supported by as many people as possible who have the interest of Steem at heart.

However, there a few persons on your blacklist whose reason for being on that blacklist has become quite irrelevant and now deserve a review. How do I mean? Permit me to explain.

There are a few persons on your Blacklist API who got there in the days of the old steem for bot abuse. They were, at that time, added for the right reason - as the blacklist prevented such persons from using your bot, Buildawhale.

Now, we are in the days of the New Steem where downvotes exist to fight bot abuse, where even the use of bots have become very unfashionable if not moribund. This keeps me wondering why those whom you blacklisted in those days for bot abuse still remain on the Global Blacklist API. Can they still abuse the bots now given the downvotes army in town? The answer is NO and rightly so. Therefore, it is only fair to grant amnesty to such affected users. By so doing, your Global Blacklist API will get the much needed credibility. In this case, my good friend @Majes.tytyty is a victim alongside several others.

You could mandate the victims to burn some amount of Steem as a fine for getting on the blacklist in the first place. That should be fair enough, portraying your blacklist API as just, fair, reasonable, and credible, which I believe are your intentions.

Ps: I am not speaking for fraudsters, for plagiarists, spammers, etc but erstwhile bot abusers. If the very creators of the bots, such as yourself, are walking free (even as witnesses) then every other person who interacted with it deserves to live as free men too.

Thanks sir.