I'll tell you that as a novelist just arriving here looking for less censorship and more opportunity, the fact that this is the first "fiction" tagged post I found is less than encouraging.
If downvoting and flagging are used as a cudgel here I can always try something else. I don't see how setting this kind of a tone helps Steemit.
If Steemit intends to be a place where content drives value, this is a very poor market strategy from an investing point of view.