No Abuse?

So, the three other accounts that voted up your comments would be able to get to the trending page too? Don't you think that is gaming the system as well?

I think this is a hard problem.

The Tragedy of the Commons

Many users do not know what is considered wrong behavior for the platform. There is a tragedy of the commons problem where every user can get more utility by up-voting themselves (either directly or through alt-accounts). We would benefit more as a group in finding better content if we all would vote articles according to article quality. Those that do not vote for themselves are fools that get less and less utility and thus become poorer and poorer.

Flagging people with very large stakes to that vote themselves have problems

How do you know how to map accounts to people? (An answer bittrex memo codes). Votes can be bought and so how do you determine which were bought when votes can be bought (out of band: another altcoin, or fiat)

Flagging can also be abuse

Is it right to flag all of the posts because of what a user wrote in one? This is flag abuse. Or flagged because she is the wife of Jerry Banfield.