Flagging? No problem there... until... krnel flags you for no real reason just to prove a point... then OMFG krnel is such an asshole!!! He complains about flagging then flags people, what a hypocrite !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So... why didn't you care before?
The concentration of power for flagging started because of the concentration of power for regular upvotes. The concentration of power for upvotes was an issue since day #1, but everyone pretty much accepted it. You gained a following, got support, and got rewarded. If you had no whale support, you got nothing pretty much. Oh well, we all just kept trucking along that flawed design because of a "free market" erroneous flawed reasoning.
Those that had whale support, were disliked by some in the community for getting said support, and the flagging for rewards was welcomed against them. Woo0ot, bring on the flags for rewards, it's Tony-the-tiger GREEEEEEEAT!!!!!!!!!
What happened when the whale support left through "no-whale" votes, giving the power back to the regular users... more or less? Some people still got flagged for rewards even though they were on the same level as others with no one getting whale votes... yet... that was fine and dandy for many people... because they weren't getting hit by abusive power playing flaggers. But then I start playing the flag game... and I'm not even a power player. But they got upset now that they were being hit with a measly little flag from me. When other people were getting all their rewards removed, did they care? No.... LOL. But lose a few cents from krnel, and that's a big issue for them.
Did any of the people complaining now about lil 'ol me, krnel, flagging with such small power, care when it was others being flagged and harassed by large power playing abusers? No. @seablue and others are affected, but hey, the concentration of power is great!!! No problems here unless they are affected, like they were when I targeted them.
It seems the only way for people to understand the issue in the Steemit system is for it to directly affect them and then they start talking about it. Until I was affected by the concentration of power to flag, I didn't bother with the concentration of power to vote. But then I was affected, and I learned that the reason some people were fallaciously, irrationally and inconsistently flagging certain users for rewards was because of the underlying concentration of power to upvote int he first place. So I targeted the whole Steemit system and the concentration of power as the root cause of the Steemit woes.
But, unless it affected others, they didn't really seem to care to understand the problem... Some want to actively ignore the problems of the concentration of power, either in votes or flags, because I benefited from it like others, or now I started to flag to prove the problem with the flag... Just rotate around those things I did/do, and you can simply ignore the reality of the problem and keep pointing fingers at me instead! Wonderful idea!
So lets just keep ignoring the issue because I didn't talk about it before the flagging issue showed it's ugly head, right? Because I benefited from the concentration of power before in upvotes, now apparently I can't show the demonstrable reality of the flawed concentration of power and how it manifests to create the disempowerment, disillusionment and disenfranchisement of user on Steemit.com... LOL. That's some real "logic" used by my opponents to try to silence my objections to the failures of Steemit. Nice try...
So everyone, just flag those who make the most on their posts, and show the platform how "great" flagging is.
Flagging is FUN now!
Don't you know?
Do what the cool guy bernie does, he leads the way to Steemit's ultimate success!
After all, flagging is such a "wise" tool to promote development of a social networking community!!!!!!!!! Right? Lets show the world how great flagging is when used willy nilly by power players to flag people they don't like or posts that make more rewards than others!!!!! AWESOME!!!!!!!