Is there any action at all that be taken against the authors of these vexatious claims?
I'd say Opposing the Flags by DT, and maybe excluding the users from their Trust list is enough. They're unimportant to the Trust system.
Thank you Loyce. Great advice as usual.
I made it clear in a post in a different thread I would not be posting in the Bankera scam and Spectrocoin scam threads again as they were being pushed up with every post however when the sock-puppets posted nothing happened, the thread was regularly languishing around pages 4-6 of the listing. I also sent a request to other users to not post in those scam threads again because of the unfortunate side-effect of pushing the scams to page 1 of the listings.
On my part I added all the sock-puppets related to the Spectrocoin scam and the Bankera scam as well as several other scams on my IGNORE list because they were not worth engaging with. Fortunately, now when they post I only see the user name and do not have to read their trash. Sometimes they follow me around and post after me in various threads but at least I do not have to read anything they post.
Unfortunately there's nothing you can do to stop someone from opening a flag on you, but as Loyce pointed out, the flags are of little to no importance thanks to the lack of status of the accounts supporting it. Not much more to be done about Bankera at this point anyway!
I think flags disappear after, what was it? 90 or 180 days without support? But since the flags against us do technically have support, I don't think they're going anywhere, unfortunately...