Hi, Scott. I joined in 1 / 18, & I share a lot of the concerns that you have expressed in this post. I feel exactly the same way. To me? In my words? It's basically like glorified bullying. You know, the whole "down voting" thing just to lower someone's score because you don't share their opinions or you didn't care for how they expressed their opinions. I'm a firm believer, & supporter of freedom of speech. I've said over, & over that while I may not like what someone is saying, OR I may not like how they said it, I DO like the fact that they have the same right to freedom of speech that I do. I fully agree that the ONLY time anyone should utilize the "flag" option on here is if the content was factually abusive / threatening / criminal / blatant factual harassment, those types of things.

I decided to follow your page here because I saw that you know a thing or two about crypto. I confess there is a LOT I do NOT know about it, but I think I get the gist. However, I need some guidance / advice from someone that has been working with it, & I wonder if you would be willing to answer a few questions for me if, & when you could. Would that be possible? I've been hunting, & pecking trying to get specific answers, & I keep coming up with nothing but a headache from all of it.

Oh! Here's a thought. Probably sounds silly, but.... As far as a suggestion to how people could be advised when someone doesn't like their content? Why not just comment that they didn't like it? You know? On the post that they have a "problem" with. Like.... "Hi. I just finished looking over your post, & I want you to know that while it could have been a great post - all the profanity in it was a real turn off for me personally." Something like that? That way, it doesn't hurt the user's reputation score, & the person that didn't like the content gets to politely advise the author directly the REASON they didn't like it. I don't see why that would be such an impossibility. Could even get a dialogue going with the user that way. I don't know. Just a thought.

There's still a lot I'm trying to figure out about Steemit, too, so....

Have a great day.