I just posted an unintended negative effect of the balancing flags. If your reputation is higher than the person you are flagging to balance it can bash their reputation, AND it can actually hide their post.
It might have been good to temporarily disable the reputation system during this test. Perhaps you guys can double check the effect of your flags and get a group of people able to counteract the reputation ding to follow behind you.
EDIT: I am not against the experiment. It is worth testing, but a little planning could have helped a bit here I think.