It does make one truly cautious to attempt to flag a post because of the angry village mob mentality. A truly frightening concept.
Maybe flagging should only be able to be used for calling out such things as abusive or indecent content, and another means of 'disliking' someone's post invented. Personally, I just prefer to walk away quietly.
I also believe the majority of users here would much prefer to find quality content to read rather than quantity. Otherwise it really does begin to seem spammy, and milking the system. Such a shame for the rest of us who really do strive to make engaging, thoughtful or entertaining (sans memes) posts.
In the end I guess all we can do is what feels right for each of us. :)
Maybe a majority would prefer quality over quantity but the problem is that some people who make true money do not care about quality because they dont need to. The circle-jerk of upvotes is enough for them because every post they post gets upvoted to 200 SBD. Why should they make 1 quality post and earn 400 SBD if they can spam out 8 and earn 200 SBD on each one.