So first time in a while I am gonna write something not related to Utopian. I keep seeing posts about flagging other posts, from people I respect in this community, but it is really sad to see how their intelligence is wasted in such an unhealthy and counterproductive way!
The Flagging War
So now we have big accounts getting together to downvote bad posts and being proud for that. You are trying to fix a long term problem with a short term solution and well...that's not gonna work.
I Tell You What You Are Going To Produce Instead
You will let the blockchain become a place where people do not want to post for the fear of being downvoted. I know some already.
I have seen quite a few times you are using your voting power to automatically downvote specific accounts. Is this curation?
You are centralising the decision of what's good or bad in the hands of few people !== decentralisation !== good thing.
You will make people working on Steem to improve its value thinking it is not worth it, simply because we are trying to make a decentralised World working on a platform heading to centralisation.
I Tell You What Should Be Done Instead
Stop the voting/downvoting bots completely and force manual curation in this platform OR only allow specific ones based on a consesus of the community. There are many technical ways this can be achieved.
Add a functionality to flag an account.. I have seen scammers simply not using the post functionality so flagging a post is completely useless. What should be implemented is a flagging option ON THE ACCOUNT so when a certain consensus is reached the account will be disabled and the posts hidden automatically. The reputation system in Steemit for now is just a number.
FIX THE CONTENT DISCOVERY ON STEEMIT. Allow people to find good contents EASILY. The frontend and content discovery is a joke for now. This is a social media platform at the end, is not the frontend the most important side of it??
By fixing content discovery and allowing people to find quality contents....YOU WON'T NEED TO FLAG ANYONE SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY WILL STAY IN THE DARK.
USE YOUR VOICE TO MAKE LONG TERM SOLUTIONS HAPPEN!
Use your voice and power to make long term solutions happen on this blockchain by forcing the people behind it in the direction the community wants. Stop wasting your time flagging random people and being proud for that. This is not smart and you are NOT GONNA PRODUCE ANYTHING GOOD!.
Remember my words and good luck with your flagging adventure.