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This wouldn't work for preventing spammers and plagiarism. Many community members have suggested plausible ideas, but this requires implementation from our devs, a lot of who are busy with other high priority things. In time this will be resolved with code, but for now the Flag Wars continue.
With enough experimentation and delegated voting, we could come up with ways to counter whales without having to gain whale power or rely on waiting for code change.

In my time here of just over 3 weeks I can honestly say I've never needed to flag anyone, I did once by accident cos I wanted to see what would happen haha