Great article, I like the picture!
"I want Steem be a healthy, vibrant community with engaging discussions from people with all points of view. " Yes this is great and sometimes I can´t understand why people are flagging some posts. Look at this introduction of @julia26 for example, it was her first correct article and I know her personally, so I can´t understand why people are flagging it, becuase they think she is not a real person: https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@julia26/vorstellung-zu-meiner-person The funny thing is, that the flaggers are anonym, so they don´t have a reason to distrust people with a real introduction and a picture. ^^
Xeroc, whom I trust, downvoted it and gave his reasons. The post is not in english, uses excessive font size and bold lettering. It is clear to me why it doesn't add value to most readers.
Not adding value means not getting upvoted. Flagging it seems extremely harsh.
Do we want steemit to be welcoming only to native english speakers?
would easily be fixed with a simple language filter
They are not anonymous. In the url for the blog post change the steemit.com part of the address to steemd.com. That page will show you the name of every person that up voted and down voted. I give a visual example and some other tips like this in a guide I wrote the other day.