Partially market value, and partially because the post was flagged down by a whale who is jealous of my increasing success who seems to have a disagreement with myself and several other users I know who got into a bit of an argument with him about his treatment of women on Steemit, which was abusive. When we defended some of the women he harrassed by flagging his comments, he flagged our posts and it has damaged my income on several of them because of his voting "weight".

Be nice always. I did the right thing, and I am now going to just accept the losses from his rage flagging and hope that eventually he gets bored and goes away.

Don't let that discourage you. There will always be trolls and bullies on social networks and they will always be jealous of those of us with integrity, backbones and some popularity. I guess you could say, being attacked by a troll is a form of flattery and a proof I am doing something right? :)