canceling votes, and downvote the voter... how will that affect on reputation of the author? and I saw many beginner's posts flagged (reputation fell from 25 to -1) in someones first or second day on steemit... is that necessary? can community forgive some beginner's mistakes in first few days of steeming?
@dumar002 Hit up people in steemit chat if this happens. This problem has been acknowledged and addressed by an overwhelming number of users. With regards to most of the community, a sincere apology for bad behavior, or even simply pointing out that someone killed your rep without good cause (accidentally thought you were a bot, etc.) is typically fixed very quickly now.
Because accidents do happen sometimes (especially when people are new) it's been acknowledged that this type of problem can easily drive people away from the platform and was never the intent of the current Rep system in place. The platform is still in beta so most of these problems will be all worked out in good time. ;-)
They can redeem themselves by making contact with the flagger which is a lot easier if the flagger left a comment. The question is how long will it take for people to realise that the behaviour they've become accustomed to on other social media platforms is not the type of behaviour that contributes value to steemit.
There's a lot people will just have to un-learn, and that's going to take some time and personal adjustments.
The system doesn't order to the flagger to leave a comment, but it should. About the behaviour, I've noticed that people adapt pretty fast to steemit. Everybody have problems or questions first few days and there is no need to be strict to them
perhaps the introduction of probationary period