Everybody here and there have to survive a flag, and it's an essential fact of life with some jealousy and butthead users will always be around. In general, the flagging isn't a problem. As to hard to use, ok there will likely be more and better features in the future. However, it is a blogging platform. It does take some common sense to navigate, not any 'average person' will just start making $$$'s from posts right away. However any 'average person' that makes the concerted effort, to learn the community, and to better themselves a little each day as a blogger –The platform is available to all. Trolls are part of life, privacy is kinda tough luck, make an anon profile ... that's the whole point, you can with just an email address and a SIM card....

it is a question as to how Steemit will ever handle takedown requests, when posts written to the blockchain cannot ever be changed, this is an interesting topic.