No, punishing him for writing junk that's been written 200+ times

Have you listened to your own words? However much you are right, I dont think that it is up to you or anyone else to judge this. After all, that it gets popular is mostly due to the followers, right. So they are wrong too. We are all entitled to our views on the subject and can share what we want. You can upvote or flag as anyone else. But the are two problems, as I see it. The reason of flag and your power of a vote (up/down). Flag from whales is devastating and honestly I think there should be an upper limit of aggregation of vote power to avoid the whole situation. The number of posts - increasing day by day - will give numerous examples of "thing being written 100+ times" - this is the curse of blogs - no one can keep track of any thing and new members arriving all the time will believe they have the "new" idea with them. Its a little like trying to hold on to a shooting star. So Bernie - enjoy the community or platform or what you prefer to call Steemit and share YOUR original, non abusive thought with us. Be a nice whale and leave the small fishes alone :-)