Many people are sad. SBD is low (as it should be). STEEM is low. And as a result rewards on curation and posts are low as well. I am here to tell you that the low prices hold a bit of a blessing in them for us and for the platform.
The platform has abuse issues. There are crap posts that get self-upvotes and proxied self-upvotes (through bidbots), not only raping the reward pool. People using dozens of pay-bots to get upvotes and interaction on their posts to artificially boost their reputation and then there are those annoying spam comments. We can always ofcause flag abusers, but as doing so will cut into our curation rewards, very few of us actually do so.
When the payout on curation is high, so is the cost of casting a downvote, of giving a flag and helping to clean up the platform. Today the curation rewards are low. As such though, so, implicitly, the cost of casting a downvote has come down to a real low.
So what I would like to propose: Forget about upvotes for a day, maybe two, find yourself the worst abuser of the platform you can find who has a lower rep than you have and start flagging. Start flagging and don't stop before you have exhausted at least 50% of your Voting Power. See if you can flag yourself into the flagwar stats top flagger or top downvoter list.
Just think about it. What better way to use your Voting Power today while curation rewards are this low anyway. Flags have rarely been this cheap. Find yourself an abuser today and flood him/her with 50% of your VP. You can miss those two and a half days of curation rewards, right? Oh, and don't upvote this post either, resteem it instead. Don't waste your cheap VP on upvoting my post when you could be using it to downvote some asswipe platform abuser.
Oh, just in case you still do decide to upvote this post (if you have the balls to go flagging abusers, please do that instead), I'll delegate whatever this post ends up making to @pibarabot. I have some ideas for a simple low-powered bot that could go around doing some clean-up down-voting.