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<center><h3>A short illustrated guide on revenge flagging and why you shouldn't do it!</h3></center>
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So you've just finished thieving a bunch of well written content or photos from some website and proudly cobble up some barely passable wordy bits at the top to hopefully fool folks into thinking you've written the article. As you hit the post button on Steemit your lazy, scam filled heart hopes some god-whale such as @berniesanders upvotes you so you can continue to ride out your sad little life not really doing much nor contributing to anything...

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<center><h3>In strides the untold heroes of our story!</h3></center>

A mysterious team of users work together to help protect Steemit from foolish content thieves trying to reap profits off of other folks hard work. This team of unsung heroes comes from a diverse background and from all walks of life. It's made up entirely of the community, you're actually part of this team already!

<h3>Would-be scammers get justice they deserve in the form of heavy flaggings!</h3>

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<h3>Some thieves that get flagged for content theft do the right thing afterwards.. </h3>

They apologize to those they've stolen content from, the people who were forced to flag them and the community for being such a shady character. I've seen a handful of plagurist / content thieves get caught, denounce their scammy ways and go on to create great content. If you believe you've been wrongly flagged check out https://steemit.chat/channel/steemitabuse-appeals 

Sadly and far more troubling... is when the recently caught thieves take a different approach and lash out, casting hateful words, threatening users and sending revenge flags onto our noble heroes original content...

<h3>What they fail to realize is that the hate and revenge flagging is <b>FUTILE</b>.</h3>

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<h3>But WHY is all of the content thieves hate and revenge flagging futile?</h3>

The answer lies hidden within the recently implemented reputation system which @dantheman has created for Steemit using his "highly erotic" code wizardry. In some cases after a content thief has been spotted, had his stolen content and account "flag nuked" into oblivion and had their reputation left highly damaged they proceed to cast flags on all users involved in heroically smiting their scammy selves. Unfortunately for the content thieves (and fortunately for our heroes) they are unable to flag with any sort of effect due to their now heavily tarnished reputations. This however doesn't seem to stop people from engaging in the childish behaviour we know around here on Steemit as revenge flagging.

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<center><h3>Once you've been caught thieving.. bow your head and apologize.</h3><h3>Getting upset and childish after being caught only makes you look guilty.</h3><h3>Once your account reputation is hurt, your flags do very little.</h3><h3>Push yourself to be a better person if you're caught up in plagiarizing. </h3><h3>Thank you for reading this article. I hoped you learned something! </h3></center>