Today I flagged for the first time. The Introduce Yourself feed is crammed with people who are well past introduction territory and the actual new people are getting completely lost in there.

So I posted saying that if you wanted to fish for followers in the IY section, at least do these people the courtesy of actually reading their posts and giving them a thoughtful comment (thanks @shayne) and within minutes I had a bunch of "Welcome to Steemit" comments with flashing neon "Follow ME!" signs from people who clearly hadn't read the post at all. Irony.

So I spent awhile flagging and letting people know why and I took down the flag for anyone who removed the tag. I don't think I have much power in my flag, lol, but the comments helped and several removed the tags so I found today that it can be effective when done politely.