I'm glad to see this is being pursued. Plagiarism seems pretty rife on the site. Am I correct in my understanding that downvoting (I assume this is the same as flagging) only has an effect if the person has lower reputation than you? I have just hit 50 but have seen a few accounts posting plagiarised/racist/generally bad content who are high 50s or even into 60s somehow (I assume they are early adopters/system gamers).
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You can only lower their rep if yours is higher then theirs, but you can lower their reward regardless of your rep.
Sweet info.. thank you for clarifying that for me..
A flag is a downvote... which is confusing because a flag should be 'this is inappropriate'. There are moves to update the code to have a downvote button next to the upvote button. A flag/downvote also takes away from your voting pool, so you basically have to choose to upvote something you like or downvote something you dislike/think is getting more money than it should.
I saw another plan to allocate 10% of everyone's voting power purely to downvoting, which I really liked... it means that if you didn't want to downvote yourself you could donate that 10% to Steemcleaners which would dramatically increase their effect. Not sure if this plan got approved though.
that is a pretty cool idea, where did you see that post at?
https://steemit.com/steem/@transisto/separate-downvoting-power-pool-concept-visualized
It affects their earning relative to your SP regardless of rep I do believe. Take for example Bernie whom has -13 rep but will often delegate 600,000 Sp to himself and can crush accounts based on his SP regardless of his reputation.