Imaging if a "Flag" cost Steem Dollars. I can understand 'down voting' (though I've never participated this way) ... Just move on is my motto. To plant a flag is to make a "statement". (Ps. I've never flagged) Promoting cost SD's, anti-promotion "costs nothing". Just thinking, it's late and I have to 'stoke' the wood-stove. ~Peace All! (;
It essentially does. When someone with my SP places a vote it consumes scarce voting power worth what could be a few dollars in curation rewards if used to upvote something else.