I agree they should change the voting system to either up or down voting and forget about flagging. Flagging sounds so offensive and puts people on the defensive and problems start. It looses some of the negativity when you say down vote rather than flagging.

I've never flagged anyone since I've joined a few months ago and I don't think that I've been flagged either, but it would be nice to know why you are being flagged. You can't change a behavior if you don't know what the behavior is, right? 
I'd love it if everyone that read my posts left a comment to let me know if there is anything else they'd like to see in my posts, anything they think would improve my posts, constructive criticism is always helpful, especially for people that are new to blogging, like myself. I think a simple comment like "your punctuation needs work" or " your posts are too long/short" or "you're post was not under the right tag, try using this tag instead" or whatever, just to give people ideas on how to improve. I think it would make a huge difference in some posts and improve the content of others, it never hurts to improve ourselves. :D

I have seen a lot of _hub-bub_ lately on steemit about down voting and flagging. Some of the comments are getting a little personal. 

I have not down voted a post or comment, nor had any down voted (at least not that I know of) but I do know on the esteem app, the flag could easily be hit by mistake.

Ad I agree with the explanation as to why a down vote was given. This could or would create less drama... perhaps

I'm just a small fry and don't log in every day. I think there is a place for both. I agree with most of your reasons for up or down voting. I also think 'flagging' or whatever you decide to call it is needed for obvious spammers and these using SteemIt for nefarious reasons. I like to read various articles and some comments. But I lose interest fast when I see comment after comment that are just worthless.

So if you don't like it don't read it.......simple as that just like crappy tv shows. You don't sit there and watch the whole show then complain because you didn't like it.

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YES for the love of all that is good in the world YES! Where's that resteem button now?

I've mentioned it more than once - the concept of "flag" is offensive. A "downvote" is something we all know from just about digital service we use - from the app store to reddit to bloody Amazon product review ranks.

I'm still pretty new to this so I don't really have a dog in this fight, yet. I know I don't 'flag' anyone, because there's just so much content that is great. I don't waste my time flagging bad stuff.
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