youre certainly entitled to your opinion. I think downvotes are just as much a part of the market as upvotes. You provide no evidence to back the notion that BS's use of a flag was abuse. There is nothing in the tos or anywhere else that backs up this belief.
The entirety of your point seems to be that people should be entitled to their vote, as long as they use it the same way you do. I disagree.
Most of the voting shares cast for TDV came from outside the free market, just like Bernies and other whale votes opposed to basically running steemit entirely to give tens of thousands of dollars to TDV and his friends.