Since there are so many policing groups on Steemit, why don't we have a flag police? If you flag someone, they look into it and if you had no good reason to flag, they flag you til it does 10x the damage you inflicted with your trolling. Checks and balances are needed.
As one that is highly active in anti-abuse groups, I can see how something like this could be helpful. I will caveat by stating that those that understand the purpose and utility of flags also are subject to many vindictive counter flags by scammers. It happens. Still yet, there is a place for good flags in the ecosystem, I dare say, even good flag wars.
Take what happened with Haejin. He used to be incredibly selfish with his stake and the community, led by the example of good whales like witness @fulltimegeek, engaged in prolonged campaign to address this. Now we can readily observe the change in his voting behavior. Down to 68% Self Vote CSI on Steemworld. (I haven't checked out Rancho, tho)
With the reduction of spam due to HF 20, we now are able to tackle different forms of abuse. I think our next ambition will be to take down abuse caused by irresponsible botting such is the case with @emperorofnaps I found recently. Anyways, I think the flag police is a good idea. We have our mods at @steemflagrewards review flags and another thing is we make it abundantly clear why we flag via our categorization system. It's quite novel I will say. We are also open source. I try to be a good ambassador for flagging when I can so thought I should mention it.
As for people unfollowing because you were powering down, well that's messed up. I think following a person should be about their content and showing support. Yes, it's great when our friends power up and can hook it up with some nice upvotes but sometimes folks need to eat so I understand if my friends power down.
Great and thoughtful comment!