Oh right. Well at present your flag will reduce $2 from the total and use the same of VP as a vote of the same % would.
This is the frustration of a post blown up with all the bots - you'd need 10's of millions of SP to take the damn thing out of trending.
hmm might start doing it anyway, once my last post gets past 7 days lol
lol
And this is the other issue, retaliation. It's an important time for Steem, stuff needs to change for the better or else it could get very quiet here.....