Flags are great to keep the spam posts out. If people shit post and get rewarded, they'll keep shit posting. Eventually they'll give up and go away. I don't agree with what happened in your example and it sucks that they didn't get a payout for their post because it was a quality post but if you attack someone, especially someone with a lot of power, they will mess you up. Just think of some of these whales as kim jong il.