I dont understand....EVERYONE does it though, you can look at everything posted on trending and hot and every single one of them when the post was first put on.... they all had 1 vote...from the original poster....
I dont think theres anything wrong with it
If there IS or WILL BE then i think a lot of people will begin to leave the platform, so far its been pretty open and a care free place, but once too many rules come into play people lose interest
I think the issue is everybody associates a flag with having "broken the rules" which is somewhat problematic since there are no official rules. However each individual has their own standards of what they deem valuable or potentially damaging to the network. It's only human nature to react emotionally when somebody expresses that what you're doing is "abusive" or "bad" or even "unintentionally harmful". But we have a system where I believe we need to be free to express that when we feel it.
Otherwise people just leave quietly (and many people have).