Yes, it's sad to see all these personal vendettas being carried out with flagging and bots...

But that's a problem with the game rules and not a problem with flagging as a tool. There are many legitimate uses for a "downvote"!

The problem in these quarrels lies in 2 aspects (imho):

• power distribution and the idea of a trickle down economy
• the way the site steemit.com handles reputation and post visibility

those are systemic issues that need to be discussed.

But that's nothing Hive account@sherlockholmes will pay much attention to, I am looking for genuine scammers and cheaters!