Well said, thank you. Especially while the network is young we need to make sure to keep it pointed in the direction we want it to grow. Whatever is rewarded we'll get more of, so downvoting spam and upvoting quality content is the only way to give it a chance to grow.
Personally I'm a horribly slow writer and pretty self-critical. I try to post when I have something I think is important to say, but I do a lot more silent curation.
Firstly I would like to thank you for all the love you gave us here! We all appreciate it greatly! Secondly I absolutely agree with you on the downvoting/flagging thing, the problem is that people are somewhat afraid of downvoting, because if you enter a flagwar with a SP rich individual, it might get pretty ugly.
I also would like to encourage you to write more! I really think that the more you practice, the easier it gets. I have posts, which I have written for more than 4-5 hours, but lately it is getting easier. ( I am also a slow-writer and English is my third language, so I use a lot of help for my grammar, which obviously is not perfect) I believe a person like you can contribute greatly to our cause here.
Also if you are interested you can check out @pawsdog's blog and especially his shitty post series.
I certainly understand the fear of engaging in vote wars, especially as a small stakeholder. Ideally I think that fear shouldn't stop people though. If we can't trust the rest of the community to defend small stakeholders who are abusively downvoted, then the network may not have a future anyway and finding that out sooner is better than later. As long as the downvotes are soundly defensible and the downvoter has enough followers to notice an abusive counterattack and raise the alarm I think enough of us here will stand up for each other. If that stops being true, the only real solution is to fork the network and remove some abusive stakeholders, but things would have to get pretty bad for that to be supported.
I appreciate the encouragement. I am working on it, but of course progress is slow.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm already following @pawsdog (which is how I discovered you and this post). I met him in some of my counter-abuse efforts and saw your post when he resteemed it. That's also inspired me to use resteeming more, since it's a very effective way to accelerate the development of a healthy and densely linked social network.
You are 100% correct! . I personally don't have a problem with downvoting and am ready to accept the "risk".
You know what they say - "A thousand miles journey, starts with one step".
Thanks for re-steeming.