No but I asked around and been told zerohedge isn't asking permission to republish others content, people are mostly grateful to get free press. About 90% of what's on Zerohedge is straight up taken elsewhere sometimes with wrong credit given. The website is infested with the most abusive ads you can find (yes it's their right). I'm spending 1h every day to regularly check and read though ZH about 25 articles to repost what I think is the best stuff and It's not like adapting the content for it to look good on steemit is easy either.
I don't quite understand what your vision of steem is, at a time where most are shamelessly upvoting their own "Hey!" comments I think you should leave some respect the work I do and not bury my content with -100%.
Many of my posts are improved or editorialized to put Steem into context, I'm also posting links to the post in the comments at Zerohedge.com to bring people to come read and participate on the comments on steemit. I'm not sure anymore to what extent I'm just wasting my time if you keep flagging at 100%. Is there something I can improve to make what I do pass your flag sensor ?