Who are you to decide who to upvote? Who put you in charge to decide who should get rewards? Same problem just in reverse.
Everyone one here should be flagging content that should not receive rewards. It is the only way we can prevent steem becoming $0. Yet there are always people like you that use flags as a weapon to harass and troll people rather than what is good for the platform.
I generally only flag the worse cases of abuse. It’s my right as a stake holder. I don’t flag people willy nilly, I flag people posting 50+ times a day, plagiarizing images and text, and copying other people’s work. I flag really bad cases of reward disagreement but I generally don’t do much in that department as it is very subjective but what I do flag is clearly shit content.
You want to chat about it, hit me up on steemchat or discord. Without flags we will have people shit posting 10 times a day with no one challenging it. There will be zero distribution and just account preservation posts like many did in hf20 and earlier.
There is a vast difference between my flags and yours and Haejins.
It isn't really for anyone to tell another what they should flag though. Boosta bought his SP and it comes with an upvote and a downvote. Its a matter of personal preference, I wish the downvote button didn't exist, but it does so that means we all have the right to do what we want with it.
Is the steemit userbase growing now?
No
Is there some active discussion on how to attract new users?
And if there is, can you provide a link for me?
This seems like it should be priority A number 1!
There are many discussions on it. Most are in private channels, dms, and discord. There are many on chain as well.
https://steemit.com/ethics/@logiczombie/how-to-fix-steemit
For what it's worth...