I really hate flagger abuse. Flags should not even affect reward IMO. I spam the blockchain everyday with my bot. I run the bot under a different username. My bot's posts have never been flagged. The spam is about a service that uses Steem dollars.
To eliminate spam equally means to make the "steemit" tag empty and the "steem" one only about the blockchain steem. Aren't all of these super popular posts about steem related products also "spam"? Things would be a lot more quiet aroind here indeed without these posts.
I can't agree more about there being spam everywhere on steemit. I see people plug Genesis mining, ICO's and other crypto's all over the place. But certain posts are just downvoted/flagged
@dan can plug a completely different platform (EOS) and I don't see @steemcleaners flagging him or @craig-grant or @trevonjb or the other dolphins and whales . It looks more like economic discrimination to me. Flag the poor because we are poor and can't fight back. Funny thing is, I used @craig-grant's code to sign up for bitconnect.
I completely agree.... there is something going on with the algorithms that just doesn't "smell right"....
And it seems, by the logic of 'he whom will argue about anything', we little fish are now expected to not only put our necks on the chopping block (commenting views and opinions on posts of users who can easily just "smash" our Reputation and "not censor" our content with just a few of their powerful flags) yet also burn up what precious little voting power we have flagging their spam content. Sure, that seems real fair and legit.
smh
Is this exactly what the creators intended, to have the weak eventually volunteer to give up any value or power they may have accrued battling for fairness and equality in a war with the Whales that they just can't win? To use their "influence" to flag abusers rather than to promote others? Sure seems like it to me.