I've only been here since November and I've already said it myself more than once that more needs to be done and more people need to step up. I actually saw your post not too long after it got flagged, but I hadn't taken the time to check it out. I was observing bernie's account because let's face it, when it comes to certain...news...you want to check it out to be informed. While I was more interested in what was going on and not the resteem I still noticed. The first thing that came to mind was "Oh wow, there's a casualty of war right there".
We are a community and it is up to us. I am willing to step up, where do I go?
Steemit functions like a business, a decentralized one at that, so flags are important to reallocate rewards. I for one, don't realy like seeing a post I worked on lose reward payout because other people are abusing the rewards pool. If we as a community were to stop the plagiarists abusing upvote bots from making one penny alone our rewards wouldn't dwindle as much. When a big whale upvotes one user 20 times a day it literally reallocates rewards from all over the platform to one person. The same goes for all the every-day all-day trending posts. While many certainly deserve the rewards, flags are intended to not just stop plagiarists from profiting, but to keep certain posts from being ridiculously overpaid.
Not sure what you were at in pay before the flag but with the very creative work I see you've done with the MGT cards, I say you've gotten your worth and then some! I just hope that the unjustified flags cease, however; we must come together as a community and make a decision, or do something. If we don't do something, we are bringing false value to the platform. This is really bad for business. There are so many people taking advantage and cashing out every day.
I understand where you are coming from whole heartedly. Your post about the MGT cards still got buried. It should have been brought back to life. I think it was very clever and creative. I laughed. I also went ahead and gave it an upvote. Maybe it was very risky because of the mentions, but it should not have been flagged regardless. I think others should go upvote it too, if they haven't already. Even if to at least get it to a 10 SBD payout or something, and bring the post back to life. my 0.03 upvote didn't do much, but every little bit counts. I would have really proven a point if my upvote brought it to 0.01 in the positive, but that was hopeful thinking. To me it isn't about what you made here, it's the principle. Your post got buried when it shouldn't have.