I agree that flagging comments does not make much sense, as your are wasting your precious Voting Power and your approach makes much more sense as users who take their time to involve in a discussion do actually benefit from it.
I was always curious though, what role does a rating play on this, does it have any restrictions on posting if the rating of a user goes negative?
Low ratings means less money and less reputation, gradually. Posts and comments with lowered ratings or upvotes or likes are given less money and and reputation begins to decline too. My reputation score is 51 right now. We tend to start with a 25 REP. Some will have a 7 or maybe a negative number as they are flagged.
Oh, my bad wording. I meant how does low reputation of account influence posts payouts etc?
If you are a 5, then I am less likely going to vote for you. If you have a 72 reputation score, then more people may upvote your posts and comments. As far as I know, low reputation does not influence post payouts directly apart from simply getting less upvotes. People will trust you more and read you more and watch you more and follow you more and interact with you more and upvote and like you more and pay you more money when you are more, when you have more money, when you have a higher reputation score.
Ok , i see, thanks :)
Reputation is a vanity metric, it doesn't influence payouts.
Thanks for elaborating that, as i was thinking should we include this to our platform when connecting to steem BC. Looks like here is no point.
I was also thinking we should simply hide flagged comments to avoid the problem you have pointed out, but then again.. it would be censoring somebody's opinion if a single guy with high SP simply does not like it.