Why the shit award is unbalanced and what could be done about it

!metashit There is no rdrama award that is even comparable in its potential to be abused to the shit award. All others are either: merely cosmetic, positive, or too expensive to practically spam(like the ban, hieroglyphs and grass awards), and all have completely temporary effects. Meanwhile the shit award is extremely cheap (250 coins but practically 150 since it steals 100 DC), and can be effectively used to make sure that an user always has a negative amount of DC(therefore rendering them unable to use the lottershe, grass award and awards in general unless they paypig), and that there is always a price to pay for posting in a hole someone doesn't like for some reason, and all of this just for the low price of the monthly paypig rewards for a couple bucks a month.(with even some to spare for other posts one doesn't like, as can be seen from the Bank Statement of someone who uses all of his in-site currency for shit awards due to the reasons above)

Exhibit A: Since it's creation the majority of posts on /h/soy have been shit awarded and a lot of those that haven't are those made by an alt created specifically to shield users from them: !soyteens

Exhibit B: Seeing that I had obtained a considerable amount of coins due to a stroke of luck and carp's generosity(the MB in the screenshot is unrelated to the issue and was given to me for the creation of ping groups and transferred like that to avoid them getting spent on football betting) @Brevis-Kong, who has been personally upset at me since I opened /h/soy and asked him to stop doing this, first tested to see whether I had a deflector award on and then shit-awarded me more than 100 times. For the last two months he has constantly shit-awarded my posts and comments, always making sure he was using the right amount of them to make sure I was below the 0 DC line.

There is currently no effective way to deal with this; becoming a payping, constantly shit-awarding him back, and asking other soyteens to join in on this, although tempting and doable, is not guaranteed to make him stop. The deflector award is completely ineffective due to its deflection being a moot point as explained earlier and it being pretty expensive and only lasting 10 hours, meaning that all someone as obsessed as him has to do is just wait 10 hours. And as can be seen in an earlier /h/meta thread about this he can't be reasoned into just leaving me alone. Therefore I propose a few ways in which this issue could be fixed.

• Making the Shit Award only effective on users who aren't blocking you. This would leave it pretty much unchanged, and there would still be random in good fun,shit-awardings just now with the fact that you'd have to consider the possibility of being blocked before repeatedly pulling these kinds of stunts on the same users and holes.

• Making the Defclector award so cheap and long lasting that it's an effective tool in preventing this. If the Deflector lasted for, let's say, a few days and costed as much as a shit award, it would be viable and worth it to constantly use it if you know that you're going to be in this circumstance.

• Making the Shit award cosmetic-only again This idea is drastic and doesn't need to be explained further but that's how it used to work previously and there is some support for it.

Exhibit C:

• Adding some sort of anti-shit award that is cheap and long-lasting but only works against shit awards. This is similar to the second idea on the list but without changing the existing prices and balances of the other awards.

• Add some sort of award like the Unpausable one that makes you permanently immune to shit awards

• Something else. In his book on game design Tynan Sylvester makes the point that users are much better as noticing problems than in coming up with solutions to them so maybe there something that would work well that just didn't come to my mind.