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The people doing the flagging that I've checked out have a range of reps - from 34 to 60 - so way over 25.

And they have wallets from $1000 to $600 000+ so enough power to mess people up.

I didn't think reputation worked that way anyway. If you have a long time account that hasn't been flagged a bunch itself, it can and will do a lot of damage by flagging others because of its higher SP, correct?

Apparently, reputation mainly comes from being upvoted by people with a higher rep. (or downvoted). So I could change yours, but you wouldn't have much power to change mine (I think)

Ahh, okay. I guess that explains why I see people with barely any posts at all that have high reputations. Their posts must be getting upvoted by reputation "whales." :)