Steemit curating. Dealing with retaliation for flagging plagiarism.

Just a heads up guys! I was curating Russian part of Steemit (#ru) and stumbled upon a blatant plagiarism to the level of spamming.
I flagged it of course: in my mind there's a difference when people use the platform to exercise and develop creativity or share ideas and do crowd funding, and when they copy and paste someone else's post several times! There is a difference.
In response to my flagging I got a message from the flagged account and a mass downvote... wtf?

Steemians, here's the list of the people that went back on my profile (along with that individual) and retaliated against curating. I'm not sure what else can I do at this point except try to give you heads up.

I want to be clear I'm not seeking to get even. Just please be aware of the retaliation. This makes curation very difficult.

EDITED: to add #steemitabuse