RE: The Dwin fallacy(In defense of the flag part II)
I finally looked issue 215 and its interesting. Regarding what you brought up... the flag/downvote seperation issue... I don't really see why we need a flag at all. The downvote does everything we need it to do. Besides the fact that we elect to call it a flag, theres nothing about it thats different than a downvote would be.
Renaming it from "flag" to "downvote" does go a long ways towards resolving it. Maybe it is all that is needed (along with the other changes being proposed in 932).
As far as the reason to have two separate options though - I think the idea is that the community would want a way to tell if users are being actually abusive vs. just posting posts that people thought were too highly paid.
In a future state of Steemit where there is a marketplace - I would have concerns about doing business with someone who had 500 flags, but if a flag and a downvote meant the same thing - then I would have no 'warning' for someone who actually did something worthy of 500 'flags'.
Yeah, i see your point. That said, i suspect the 500 flags guy probably makes a new account to use on the marketplace, unless hes both dishonest and stupid.
I think a marketplace would be a great developement, and i can even see it happening, but if it does, there is going to have to be some marketplace-specific reputation/fb system. The current rep system we use (including upvotes. downvotes on posts and reputation score) is insufficient to handle actual commerce.