It wasn't about hiding for me, but more about showing my opinion. Also, it is called flagging, but actually it is a downvoting - the opposite of an upvote, which is nothing more than a disagreement.
And as long as this doesn't remove extreme parts of rewards, I don't see any problems with it.
The fact you cite the "weiss report" as counter-evidence is very telling of your lack of ability to form a reasonable set of answers to his assertions. Go have a look at what other garbage-tier dumpster-fire companies in the corporate world they give A and B ratings to. And you know that downvoting something pushes it down a thread when the user sorts by "trending" (the default on steemit, surprise surprise) because that's just another word for "money value of votes" and removes its immediate visibility, stop making up sorry excuses for why you're scared to let "FUD" as you would call it stand on its own merit in a fucking dmania thread. It's a meme thread and you're scared that people will see a well-reasoned argument? What a fucking joke. Weak shit like this is exactly why no one with any critical thinking sense at all would ever voluntarily join this website if the financial incentive to partake in the trickle of Tether-inflated coins being produced was removed.