We have all seen flagging being used abusively against some people by some cliques to hurt them just because they disagree, and evidently not everyone is able to respect that which they disagree with. I don't think it is about the price to pay. Just in principle, when users focus on the positive in a constructive way I think that's a better practice than taking away something from someone by flagging. Sure, it will not be ideal, but such is life in general. They have it set up so people can flag items for not being original content, but users are able to abuse this without accountability. If we are going to do this policing here, there ought to have been another layer of a larger number of users to review the flags and in turn affect their reputation on that basis. That would make it multiples harder to organize the sort of abuse we have been observing.
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