RE: Why I Avoid "HF21 Flagging" So Far.
Yeah, I heard about that, I'm glad they've been putting in effort to quickly solve it though. This isn't so much about the down vote pool or that flags will reduce rewards as much as who to flag though, because I can seriously not understand how this would work long term under these circumstances.
We need clearer instructions and/or guidelines to follow, otherwise, this will continue and quickly become a large pile of bs. And I have already seen some signs of that.
Also, due to the new reward changes, any flag I do, will benefit the already large accounts even more, as it will basically free up more rewards they can earn for their content instead... And, it could ultimately cost me even more in the long haul, due to potential retaliation flags from authors I have flagged.
So, under these given circumstances...
Nope. I'm not likely to flag anything.
And because of this no big account that probably does deserve to be flagged ever will be in any sort of meaningful capacity.
My exact thoughts. It's easy to go after smaller accounts, that doesn't hurt the wallets as much... And the funny thing is, that fulltimegeek amongst only a handful of other people flagged people before HF21, and they sacrificed their own rewards by doing that...
Now, when people suddenly have free downvotes, people are more interested to "change" things. Honestly speaking, free downvotes feels like the perfect thing to add along with the reward changes, as larger accounts will have even more to win.
Not saying it's the reason for these two things to come in at the same time though... But it feels pretty logical to me.
People did not follow the steemit guidelines for down votes prior to the free down votes, I really do not understand how they think anyone would follow guidelines just because of the free down votes.
I think in the two years I have down voted twice, both for plagiarism. I don't see my habits changing at this point.