I recently posted something that could be interpreted as favorable to Bitcoin Cash and no surprise, got a downvote. At least it didn't seem surprising until I investigated further. What I discovered is that the account appears to be dedicated to downvotes of what appear to be relatively good posts. Do we have a miscreant here?
This person has never posted on the blog or commented so it's impossible to flag the abuse. Those who've been on Steemit for a while know that proper etiquette is if you flag a post, you explain the reasons in the comments. Also the flag was never meant to be used indiscriminately. This account of course is basically a dust account that can't do real damage, nevertheless it points out the vulnerability in the abuse of the flagging system, in that if the account never posts anything, they can't be punished for bad behavior.
We don't really need to worry about such accounts (unless they start numbering into the millions). For the time being, they are largely self punishing.