I haven't checked them - but its not like they are going around manually flagging people - they have a bot running that automatically flags posts that have received a big upvote, they aren't flagging it 100% or 150% of the original vote, just so it drops below the 700 MV threshold.
Let's say votes and flags didn't have transactions and users wouldn't have noticed them going up from 2$ to 20$ but instead only noticed the rewards after the flags which had put it back to 5-6. Do you think they would lose their shit the same way then and complain about something that is happening to everyone on the platform?
What say you? @acidyo