I see you feel strongly about this, but I hope you will still consider my perspective.

Defending myself does equate to downvoting his content, because that leverages his concern for his own earnings to motivate him to stop spamming. If I didn't do that, he would still be spamming me. You also seem unmoved by the fact that when I was flagged by @fulltimegeek for illegitimate reasons, he was not scolded or punished, and nobody would help me. Why should it be different this time?

I will eventually remove the flags btw, I am just making sure he's done spamming. If you have a better idea for how to deal with abusive spammers in the future, I'd like to hear it.