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RE: All you have to do is UPVOTE CONTENT YOU THINK IS WORTHY
Why does the flagging system even exist in the first place. Being able to hit someones bottom line for espousing political beliefs you disagree with means Steemit will NEVER be a platform for people to post opinions. Its going to end up being limited to extremely sterilized content.
That could indeed be the end result. The flag was originally for plagiarism, spam, other issues. Then it was adopted to rewards... and anyone using it for whatever reason. There are no rules on Steemit, which is why there are many problems because everyone just does whatever they want with the features like the flag... especially if they have the power to do it because thats the way the system was originally designed. I'm trying to work towards changing that by addressing this centralization of power.
It would be better to apply a tag to posts and show a number of votes by others who agree.
Then provide options for all users to hide show and find these types of posts as they wish.