Good article! I hope people won't abuse the flagging in the future!
Would be really great with some guide posts to be easier to find for newcomers that are joining daily. I created a few blogposts a couple weeks back that help users know a little bit about general social platform etiquette and the flagging part is an important feature and tool that people should use correctly.
Here is the blogpost I was talking about: https://steemit.com/steemiquettes/@acidyo/steemiquettes-what-the-community-expects-from-you-and-what-you-can-expect-in-return-part-1
Also a post like this one would be really good to have visible easier in either the #introduceyourself tag or #newcomers tag: https://steemit.com/newcomers/@acidyo/what-verifying-your-account-in-introduceyourself-means-and-what-it-doesn-t-necessarily-have-to-mean
"I propose now that any flag that is not, at a minimum, accompanied by a reply in the post with the flagger's reason(s) for his/her downvote should and will subject the flagger's own future postings to being flagged themselves until such abuse by the flagger ends."
This sounds reasonable to me. The abusers become the abused ones until they learn to adapt with the rest. But this has to remain controlled and wouldn't want to see pitchforks out.
Thanks for your efforts to inform on community standards. A version of posts like you have linked above is what I hope will be pinned as a "community rules" easily accessible menu item in the new future. Perhaps you can help write it? Also, my view on solutions for this issue above.
Thanks again.