I totally agree @laconicflow. The community here rocks and I am all in, but the money thing is seriously in the way. May we both be impressed with the way the community develops instead of leaving with a rant in the oven. Crossing fingers. ;)

Not at all.

It's not jealousy because every user is sharing the daily reward pool so it's in our interest to divvy up the pot as we see fit. For most users their downvote doesn't  even affect the payout of a post appreciably, but if they feel a post is getting more than it deserves, then there should be a way of reducing it.

Also, there are posts where someone is posting something harmful to society at large. Once again it's a pool of rewards and thus we have a say in how our reward pool should be shared and with whatever influence you have earned by your SPower you should be able to wield it.

We can only hope that people will use their influence judiciously and not out of spite, envy or some other abusive way. Flagging is more than just for "abuse", just most users here don't know that. Sadly there _still_ isn't a best practices faq or something of that sort for everyone to read that can really explain how things like this work. There is a wiki though that is very informative. Steemwiki.com

You don't understand how the system on Steemit works. It's nothing against you, it's just not explained well at all. 

It's a pie of rewards that we all have the potential of profiting from based on votes. If you vote up one person you are taking some small amount of the finite daily pie to give to that one person. That's the simplest way of explaining it and I guarantee you that less than 50% of the users here understand that. They think the money per post is just given freely, but it's not.

Therefore we all should have say about how the money is divvied up. When the rewards are disproportionate for what that user feels they are worth, there is no reason  they can't try to dial that back.

As far as envy is concerned. If the real reason someone is flagging is due to envy then that isn't a good reason. If you have been on this site as long as I have you certainly know that there are many many articles that get rewards disproportionate to their contents value. There are many many more that get no reward for excellent well thought out content that took many many hours to prepare. To overcompensate the rewards on a top trending post, that was likely colluded in to trending in the first place, to the detriment of all of the rest of the users is criminal and ultimately detrimental to the site as a whole. 

I could go on and on about this topic. 

Cheers

@stellabelle you have a lot of pull here.  Perhaps you could propose it in a post?  I've tried writing a few things on this topic but I don't think they get "heard" if you know what I mean.

I agree.  For those trying to game the curation system they'd still be able to use the number of votes, but it might be less obnoxious than those four-digit payouts for low quality posts.