So many people bitch about flagging and @haejin, and @berniesanders continues to throw poop at the rest of the people on steemit. why? for not spending all our voting power on flagging abusers.
But in my opinion, the tool is broken.
Abraham lincoln once said that if given 6 hours to chop down a tree, he would spend the first 4 hours sharpening the axe.
My point is, the axe being used to downvote @haejin and other cows gobbling up the reward pool is a dull, rusty, ineffective axe. Not only that, but the damn handle is made out of razorblades that inflict damage to anyone trying to wield it. Anyone with no sense just swings away all day and then gets mad because their hands are cut up and bloody for their efforts.
This is ridiculous and the system needs to be fixed. I'm not claiming to have the best answer or the best fix, but there are options.
The website steemfollower.com is a great example where people are rewarded for upvoting others who make good content, and in turn get to build an upvote pool for themselves to get upvoted IF they create good content as well. It is a great way to get upvotes and rewards without being forced to upvote yourself to get anything at all.
So I propose that the creator of @steemfollower build something similar to punish spammers. any post that gets flagged on steemit will automatically be listed, in the same format as steemfollower, except you flag posts and that builds up a pool for you over on steemfollower.com. I don't have the programming chops or time to build a system like that, but the template is already there.
Flagging is pointless as long as the tool is dull and dangerous @dan @ned. Downvoting cows (that's what I call the reward pool eaters like @haejin) just leads to getting yourself downvoted and flagged. Trying to rally an army of people to downvote the cows is not a good long term solution. why? Because its a centralization of the power that will always attract the wrong supporters, the kind that love a good fight and don't want the fight to end, so the target shifts over time to keep the fight going and the group together. A gang with a noble cause is still just a lowlife gang if they justify any means with the end goal.
But flagging itself is also broken. It demands bloodshed on a mass scale, with minnows being eaten alive and having their accounts flagged into a shithole for trying. As the system currently stands, it is the responsibility of the whales to deal with the cows. If the whales aren't dealing with the cows, than the system itself is fundamentally broken. Human beings will not find balance unless given the tools to enforce balance. Flagging is a shit tool, and I will continue to voice my concern over anyone that promotes flagging without actually offering a solution that will work long term, and doesn't require thug tactics and gang warfare.