RE: Perhaps anarchy already exists and "THE COMMUNITY" is merely the highest manifestation of organized crime.
Do you contend that I think those shitposting golden children shouldn't be flagged?
Perhaps we agree on this specific point, but what we appear to disagree on is slightly more fundamental.
Should any post be downvoted and should downvotes affect ALL posts by the same account that are unrelated to the downvoted post?
You seem to think downvoting is "essential" to "protect" "your" share-of-the-reward-pool-pie.
What makes you think this?
What data are you basing this opinion on?
Wouldn't simply voting for yourself be the best (most efficient) way to insure you get your full share?
Wouldn't "protecting the individual sovereignty" of each account (from coercion, bribes and bullies) be the "best" way to insure "voluntarism" (truly voluntary cooperation) AND a truly FREE-MARKET?
Doesn't the fact that some accounts want to "scam" as much steem as possible actually drive adoption forward and bolster the market-value?
For example, De Beers loves it when movies and television shows and news stories FEATURE diamond thieves!!
Because simply the idea that people are desperate to STEAL their (relatively) worthless rocks makes people think they must be super-valuable!
For example when I first started investigating "the bigger picture" of this steem-economy animal, my first data-point was "which account has the most steem-power". I glossed over steemit's huge stake, thinking "ok, that's probably reserved for the devs" and started looking at @freedom. I thought, rather naively, that somebody had invested millions of dollars into steem and then powered-it-up. They don't post or do any of the "normal" stuff, they just delegate to other accounts that PAY THEM BACK. I thought it was strange that someone with that much money would think steem was their "best investment option". Now I realize that nobody would do that. Those "huge" stakes were "ninja-mined", basically for free, and their "value" would quickly de-materialize if they ever tried to sell it (just like the ridiculous over-supply of diamonds in De Beer's secret vaults).