Huh, why did you flag your own post? Flags are not positive! It's not a "star" or "favs" or "like" like on other media.
A flag means you find it offensive, stolen/plagiarism, your have whatever else bad feeling about that and you want to express a negative vote for that post. In terms of 'vote $', a 'flag' also means lowering the payout, but that's the least problem here - many flags also lower your reputation score, and so on, you get the idea.
See it here in action:
https://steemd.com/elegance/@jeremyray/designing-a-large-banner-for-public-display
- open w/w
- click 'advanced mode'
- scroll down to the bottom
- click "vote details"
- see how your vote gives negative value, and my vote adds positive value
You can still retract that flag, just click on it again, although I'm not sure if the penalty will be removed.
That was a mistake, thanks for the heads up and clarification. I simply wanted to remove the post but I assume that's not possible.
Yeah, I don't know of any way of really removing. Once it's sent to blockchain, it stays there. However, you can still "edit" it. Once you edit it, the API is smart enough to now show the previous versions (unless someone specifically digs in for that). That way, I think the 'deletion
is currently handled by manually editing the post, removing all content, and changing the title to "deleted".. so far, I've not seen a better option than this.