"What? How are comments not the best place to do so, like we are doing right now?"

Technically, there's little difference between posts and comments on the blockchain. I do however think she should have refused payout on those posts. I should have done so with mine, too.

"Then write in the comments that don't get automatically upvoted by bots."

When bernie decided to bury me, he downbotted all my comments too. So... that can go either way but I do agree that as soon as conversation was started, there was really no need for more public posts that are not in some way a contribution to the discussion on the topic of reward pool distribution. It sounds like transisto was willing to talk, but I think the talking should have happened before flagging took place.

I would very much like to point out that I did not mean to call any actual person or user a self-entitled creep, but rather an imaginary rich customer. Also, I think that metaphor for away from us.

Bottom line is - the flagging / downvoting mechanism is broken and unclear to your average steemian, and so flagging can feel like public flogging and not just in the financial sense.