Flagging spam, plagiarism and unlawful content - I am all for it.
I have seen, however, downvoting being used inappropriately for simply politically disagreeing with a post. There are serial downvoters who use significant steem power to downvote users en masse without rhyme or reason but political spite.
There is a steemit.chat channel #steemitabuse, where I just today flagged such a user who has been downvoting one of my followers for whatever grudge they hold for days on end. How can we deal more effectively with these type of rogue accounts? It is abuse of the system and doing harm to users for expressing their views, or just for reporting facts. I am subscribing to some users whom I do not agree with politically - yet I am still interested in their thinking. Let's have a debate. Let's exchange ideas. Convince me with facts and logic if you can.
People work hard in many cases. They work for the rewards, for steem power and reputation. Abusing by blanket downvoting is theft.
I think this is a pertinent subject - for who will be next to be abused in such way?
How then do we deal with that?
RE: Let's Have a Discussion on: Self Voting and Flagging