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RE: Suggestions - Enhancing Flag Functionality on Steemit
At the moment there is far too little flagging, i.e. so much content that is deliberately misleading / spam / hoax or just trash quality and will go through the 7 day period without being sufficiently downvoted. I haven't read your post thoughroughly, but after a brief read the only suggestion that seem practical is "Weighted Ratification of Flags", but that would require more downvoting.
Thank you kindly for the upvote and feedback @guttormf. :c)
I'll need to push back a little here, as while I am not against the concept of flagging deliberately misleading or harmful information, the "hoax" category enters a grey zone where it is simply unfair to label such as simply trash. In such circumstances it is more productive to demonstrate that elements or the entirety of a post is fallacy - than to simply flag it.
I am happy to hear that you found the 'Ratification of Flags' section to be interesting (although I now realize that I never got around to explaining that the 3rd flagging person adds around +18.75% (and a 4th about+ 14%)to all votes concerned, etc.
Some of the above suggestions are designed to work better together. More downvoting isn't bad if its easily accessible.
Thanks again fo the feedback!