I definitely don't follow any downvote trails, and I definitely won't consider joining any. I am well aware that many innocent accounts get caught up in the crossfire of the anti-spam efforts, and I want no part of that.

As for spam farms, it's a debated topic.
My account @freedumbnews was flagged as a spam farm and now gets downvotes on any post.
It's a news curation project that I've been running on twitter since like 2010, but apparently that kind of content is not allowed here on HIVE (says the authoritarian post-police). In reality, embracing all types of content creation (even short form / link posting) is what's needed to take HIVE to greater heights.

Plagiarists on the other hand, deserve the DVs. Does @cheetah still go around flagging potential stolen content with comment links to the source? Haven't seen that cat around in a while.