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RE: You are all a bunch of cowards!
Abuse would possibly be rampant. It's hard to gauge how this kind of situation should truly be handled.. I'm at a loss myself, but I'm also just a newcomer just starting out the passed week and a half.
It definitely is the system that's the problem, and not the users. People are people and you're not going to change people's underlying flaws.
Everyone always focuses on "how can we make flagging easier and more rewarding" instead of addressing the fact that upvoting good content is not nearly as rewarding as posting the content, and that is a vicious cycle that ends up raping the reward pool as whales game the system, which hurts the majority of those posting good content and takes away the reward for upvoting other people, at least without using something like steemfollower.com to at least get votes back for upvoting other people's content.
Steem Media Tokens are coming, and you can be sure that there will be tokens created to reward people for finding spam and flagging it. That is the solution in my mind, because every other solution I can think of has a loophole, and if you tighten down the system with restrictions, the platform loses it's proverbial soul. If you give people a separate pool for flagging, it will be abused in ways that would be terrible (think racism, bigotry, bullying, etc).
Then the solution for our situation is to make an upper limit for rewards you can have in a day/week/month and there will be no problem
unless someone makes a pile of alt accounts and spreads the reward between them all... yeah loopholes and more loopholes.
I get your point but what can we do about it then? You can't just sit and watch because they are when you think better stealing your money too
Honestly, steemfollower.com uses a model that Steemit itself could adopt on mass scale, and it would solve so many problems with reward pool rape that it's not funny. Not a perfect solution, but as long as people have to game the system to get as much as they give, there will be loopholes that asshats will abuse. I dunno, I think if those able to change the system refuse to, then let the system run its course. Steem won't die, it will simply reach a point where action is necessary. The vast majority of people using Steemit cannot even make a dent against abusers, simply because most of the steem power is controlled by the few, and the few couldn't care less if their holdings dropped to nothing before they could power down... they would just pump the price back up and restart the cycle.