Recently I saw a bot spamming a photo blog a minute and I flagged it because it was placing an annoying paragraph on 10% or more of new posts. Muting would do the same except that each user would have to see it, be annoyed by it, and then mute it..which isn't good for business either. I'm with you on not wanting sensorship. I like your option of making down votes worth a negative medium upvote.
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Bots certainly suck, but again they are an annoyance rather than censorship.
Very true. But imagine a new user making their first blog and then one minute later they see 100 responses, but all are bots. Why would the user ever try again? Should he try to mute all of them? Why would he do that instead of just spending his time elsewhere on the internet? That's my only point. Another point is that it may be impossible to have true zero censorship. Bots are not the only reason to flag. What if someone puts child porn on here? Fixing the flagging system seems a lot better to me and I also am not sure that there is a way to make the system fully satisfy everyone...but it can be made better.
Good points, but this is not what the flagging system is mostly being used for - and if mark suckerberg wanted to post child porn (or more likely, pro-vax propaganda) with say a $10 million wallet, who would flag him?
True. That's one thing.. I wish they would make reputation score, not Steem Power count toward flag power.