Not exactly the same effect. For me, as a user, a post with 100 upvotes is not a post with 1 upvote. How else can I tell if content is worth reading? The payout? Hardly. The game is rigged in favor of whoever finds a smarter way to abuse the system. That's more than obvious at this point.
I thought the idea of flagging was to prevent plagiarism, hate speech and spam from getting visibility on steemit. Sounded logical to me.
Apparently, that's not what it's for and I was silly to assume it was.
The flagging feature is a weapon for the strong to use against the weak. Like I said, you might as well change the dialog text, to avoid confusion. Some people might actually believe flagging is used to reduce the visibility of spam or hate speech, rather than bully people and silence opinions.
There is no way to prevent any user from having multiple accounts on any decentralized, permissionless system.
Yes there is. There are more than one, in fact. People who make accounts through Steemit to get the delegated SP, so they can vote, provide a phone number, and those that do this to create botnets use fake, temporary numbers.
2FA ends both creating accounts this way, and having more bots than you have phones.
Anothe mechanism, which I personally detest, is captchas, at least a temporary fix, until AI gets smart enough to beat them.
You're smarter than me, and can prolly come up with even more.
Then how do you propose to deal with one bully with lots of power hurting the whole community? Because now that he's done with me, he's targeting utopian-io.
Actually, you’re wrong because he can have a normal conversation unlike some random (self-proclaimed) slut. GFY - flagging you at -5% is no skin off my back.
I'm not sure what power you think he has, beyond the ability to inflate the vote count numbers, which is the same power that anyone has (anyone can create as many accounts as they wish).
You're seriously implying that trashing someones rep, and attacking their rewards, doesn't even exist?
That's ridiculous, and insuperable. Perhaps you could enlighten me, if I've misunderstood your coment.