That's ridiculous. Something has to be done to prevent part of this behavior. I have no idea what the solution is, but something's got to give.

While the majority of these users collectively do very little harm to the reward pool, if each of them keeps this up, they will each increase their influence over time, leading to larger and larger amounts of abuse.

The fact that this jackass flagged the post says he knows exactly what he's doing, and knows that people don't agree with it. It may not be written into the rules, but it's certainly unscrupulous....