Sadly I think your using a screw driver to hammer a nail. I up voted you because it is obvious you want to do good things for Steemit. There really is only a few ways to fix the stupid flagging. All must actually move steemit in the direction of equality of opportunity and not equality of outcome.
Looking at steemit like you would any society using human behavior as a method for gluing it together and letting time turn that glue into cement. What does every member of any society want? Liberty and freedom, which require certain protection from tyranny.
All who are sane (not psychopaths or sociopaths) want fair, just moral rules that everyone be equal in things like speech and property. Flagging is like the second amendment with out the need to justify pulling the trigger. It is also rewarding actions that resemble theft. So much so does flagging resemble theft that users who could be increasing the value are even now helping in steemit's destruction.
Flagging is a lazy way to react to your inner voice and devalues post with no logic or reason. It is like someone shooting another person cause they got mad the poor baby. It is extremely bad for a platform that claims it wants decentralization, because it is creating oligarchies which 100 percent of the time historically has resulted in tyranny.
As a result of this Steemit is being attacked by agencies that don't want to decentralized. Yeah it is obvious divide and concur strategy. In fact Steemit is a perfect virtual world for psychopaths and social paths. In my view it is naive to think that psychopaths and social paths can be automated away from steemit.
The short term solution is to allow all down votes equal power or to suspend down voting altogether. The only other possibility I can think of is to hide who the down voter is. This would merely prevent retaliatory down voting. It would also make it almost impossible to misuse down voting as a organized oligarchy.
What do you think about my rant? LOL