As most of you may know, when you vote something up, you get a curation reward, and depending on your timing and the success of the post, this reward could be quite good. Just yesterday I voted up a post that was about an hour old, it had made 2 cents, my vote put it at around 40 cents, and then it got noticed later and ended up at around 2000$ ! My reward for that was about 15 Steem, not too shabby for just one mouse click.
On the other side of the coin, flagging something earns you exactly zero, other than a reduction in voting power.
Something happened today that demonstrates perfectly what I'm talking about. 
Hive account@kental messages me on steemit chat asking me to vote on his post about bees: https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@kental/kiss-a-bee-bee-garden-on-steemit-honey-pumping-joyfull-weekend-how-to-be-a-beekeeper . I have nothing against Hive account@kental and his post, it was actually very good. I could have gotten in on the ground floor and voted on it, but I noticed it wasn't tagged right. So, like a douchebag, I tell him 'no sorry I won't vote on it because of tags', and what do you know? It goes on to make at least 800$. If I had just voted on it, I could have made probably 2 Steem or so, but instead I got 0.
And then I went on a very unproductive flagging session which ended in a flame/flag war which burned away a good chunk of my voting power and I won't have much to show for it, trust me. Plus that made me miss out of 
Hive account@dantheman 's post too.
And Hive account@kental, do you think he's going to give a rat's ass about tags in the future? Hell no, the system paid him $800. He has every reason to keep doing what he's doing. And there is little reason for me to try to stop it, indeed, the system would have rewarded me for helping him spam (again, I think his post is good).
One of the worst parts is that I can't afford to mute Hive account@kental. He is a good poster and might be a success again. If i mute him, I'll be missing out. I can't afford to mute anyone really because you never know when a post might go viral.
I'm going to have to deal with this chaotic system.
Edit: I did vote on his post after all and will get a small curation.
