Maybe, but it's still an open question as to whether the harm of flag wars outweighs the harm of some percentage of low quality posts earning unjustified rewards.
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Maybe, but it's still an open question as to whether the harm of flag wars outweighs the harm of some percentage of low quality posts earning unjustified rewards.
I'd be ok with getting rid of flagging if there were some other mechanism to deal with plagiarism/abuse, but there isn't an alternative.
I think that being able to remove the financial incentive for plagiarism helps to somewhat keep it down. If you make it so that there is no punishment whatsoever I think people would be encouraged to do it even more than they do now.