Now people take it way too personal, believing 'their (!) money' has been 'taken away' and they start doing crazy stuff because they're so angry.

I think there are different kinds of flags.

• Flags against spam or plagiarism are naturally justified.
• 'Redistributing' flags are a matter of taste because most of the time they depend on a subjective point of view (is a post overvalued or not?).
  Actually they can make sense, and I guess you are adressing these kinds of flags which you think shouldn't be taken personal. Right, I agree that there need not always be a personal aspect when flagging someone.
• The third kind of flags is meant 'personal' for sure. Their only reason is to intimidate people, take all their rewards and destroy their accounts (in some cases the 'attacker' explicitly states that aim).
  Then there is no reasonable reaction than taking these flags the way they are intended: personal.

I'd like to think that the Tribes are solving this in part :-) Better trending pages and overall better categorized content. Not perfect yet, but getting there.

It is really difficult to convince investors of investing in STEEM. And I doubt that enough people will invest in all these hundreds of different tokens (without noteworthy value) as long as STEEM(it) doesen't work. I think people from outside the cryptoverse just have not enough time and interest to check all the different tribes. They want to see STEEM work - but just lets wait and see ...

Heck, @theycallmedan has offered to do this before with @curatorhulk, but I'm sort of assuming it wasn't used that much.

The stake should come from Steemit, Inc.. One cannot expect from a single individual to sacrifice his time and money for doing that alone (and also deciding alone which flags to counter or not).
I think it should be an elected committee ot trustworthy Steemians, like you for example. :)

And thanks for discussing!

You are very welcome, thank you too! :)