RE: ❓Answering Common Questions: Can I vote for Myself?
Personally, I only tag for abuse...it's rare that I flag for disagreement on rewards and never simply because someone holds a different opinion than me.
Abuse in this case is defined for things like plagiarism, spam, tag spam, etc. Though I do tend to give an explicit warning to somebody first (though most people never heed that, or just respond with a big FU.)
The only time I've flagged outside of this was when somebody was saying that my trivia giveaway nights were just a ploy to get upvotes from minnows (which was all around ridiculous, and easily proven incorrect idea.) I work hard to keep my actual reputation of honesty (not just the rep # on here) intact...so when that person didn't update their slander, I threw out some flags.
Much like my 'mod powers' in general chat...I really prefer to not have to use flags.
I agree, I just had to downvote someone's post who just spammed that link underneath my recent post. Feels bad when people are just using the copy paste spam. :( I also think if folks are trying to without a reason attack you on a personal level (when it's not based on any truth) You should be able to defend your reputation like you said. And knowing you, I think you were right to do so.
You are helping so many people with a kind of energy I could never put forth.
t.