I agree that flaggers should give a clear reason why they flag a post. (Personally I've only flagged bots). A compulsory comment to me will not work since people will literally type "blablabla" and than flag. (unless if hat comment itself would be subject to flagging).
Hiding is only possible for people with very low reputation. The way the system works, a flag of someone with a lower reputation than you can't harm your reputation.
The pay-out can be harmed ofcourse, but we all saw the dollarvigilante post trending happily on, making a couple thousand $ despite the 100 flags.
Flagging etiquette is something this community will have to learn, and like all things, the system might need toget tweaked left and right.
I feel that flagging should never be because you do not agree with a post, but because it is abusive/illegal/plagiarising,...
Isn't it ironic that I've just got my first flag lol. Rep 7 so I guess you're right it won't have much affect. But there have been lots of cases where a dolphin has flagged content that was doing well without leaving a comment only to apologise after the payout for making a mistake in flagging it.
I don't mind so much the harm that a flag does to the payout. My concern is with this dilluted form of censorship. Of course it's not really censorship, but if you're unlucky, your post sinks through the cracks from a flag and those that might have liked to read it just don't come across it.
Flagging etiquette is indeed important, but as steemit expands to the masses I'm not convinced the newbies are going to understand its importance.
GREAT POST..THANK YOU...but here are two BULLIES Abusing the flag feature to try to control what THEY want you to say and do....that is called Fascism..
Community Needs to Gang up and FLAG Everything "Bacchist and BestOfTheRest" are Thugs and Bullies
"Bacchist" and "Bestoftherest" are users in Steemit and are whales where these two have decided to control the community, what they say and post. They are flagging everything they disagree with and trying to crush users.
The reality check is this activity is nothing more than what THUGS and Fascists do in a community. They have abused their trust in the community and it is time that users strike back and stop this flagging and crushing users whom they have posted they want to send a message to. DO not have free speech. Do not post what they disagree with. Do not post anything that questions Steem or Bitcoin - ever. Do not post anything that is Anti-Socialist or Pro-American.Fight back, track this user down and whack the bastard and this gang. Over one article, they suddenly removed my funds, removed the article, and then removed other articles not even related to Steem.
They then downgraded my Credibility rating from 40 to 6 in 2 hours. Guys, too bad many of you do not know about world history, but this activity is exactly the type of thing the NAZIS did to everyone in 1930 - 1933 when the NAZIS did not like what they said....they then beat people up...then they had them jailed..then killed....is Steemit a free and open community or is is controlled by these Bullies and Thugs which I just proved exist....
...send a message back to these two guys and crush these Bullies and flag their ass to zero to say STOP this...stop the hate and BS....or people like this will crash the community and Steem very soon....frankly for what I see, Steemit business model needs to be changed and fast before people like this destroy it.
Community Needs to Gang up and FLAG Everything "Bacchist" Has as a Thug and Bully....he is trying to beat up everyone who he disagrees with and he is flagging the same people over and over 24/7 like some nut case...