Everyone around here will have the ability to flag stuff they think sucks.

And that is the problem with the steemit flag system. If and when the flagging system is ever fixed, I may or may not choose to finally participate in flags.

• Disagreement on rewards

That is the very first thing on the why to flag short list. No flag will ever fix that problem until they fix the flag problem. Vote Bots exist, if people did not want them around they would flag each and every post/comment a vote bot makes. People don't.

Flags are nothing more than a tool to continue to repress people and to prevent alternative views from being rewarded.

An author of a post has very little control over who votes for their post unless they are buying votes. If they bot votes and people believe that it is over valued, then yes the mental anguish/pain, monetary hit, and destruction of a carefully built up Steemit Reputation should go on the buyer.

If an Authors post is selected by several curation groups and people decide the post is over valued, tell me exactly why their steemit reputation should be trashed by down votes. Why they should have to suffer the mental anguish/pain caused by the down vote. The value can be removed from a post with a fix to the down vote system, but it will not be fixed it will always be a broken system that favors the large investor.

Simple fix: Down vote flag button is pushed, choose post or vote to down vote. If post then comment why and push enter. If vote; pick vote to trash, push enter, the voter has no need of knowing who down voted his overly generous gift. Reward removed, Authors reputation remains intact, and the overly zealous voter reputation may or may not take a hit.