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YOU ALL NEED TO START USING THE FLAGGING THE FEATURE MORE OFTEN! QUIT BEING SCARED!

I've noticed that people seem so fearful to use the flagging feature. This is absolutely detrimental to the platform as a whole. The feature exists for a reason. There are a few problems here on Steemit that are absolutely plaguing the platform and they are DIRECTLY affecting you, as well as everyone else. YOU can do something about it, but it requires you to quit being a baby and to start responsibly doing your civic duty here of USING THE FLAGGING MECHANISM. As many of you may have noticed, the payout rewards since HF19 have rapidly decreased. The rewards pool is being ravaged by assholes that are worshiping themselves and stealing from you. How are they doing this? By self upvoting every damn thing that they post and not upvoting anyone else. I've seen countless users here that will drop by posts to give you a comment in the form of "lol," "cool," "nice post," "great content, check out my blog and follow/comment/upvote," "this is so funny," and so on and so forth. This would be fine and dandy, but these people are giving these worthless comments their own personal 100% upvote while typically giving you, the content creator, nothing in return. No small vote, no vote at all. These people are PARASITES. They steal from the rewards pool and essentially from you. You see, the rewards pool is not some magical spell of infinite money. Steem has an inflation rate, which is essentially the rewards pool and it is very much finite. If parasites like these continue to get away with this kind of behavior, our payouts will be reduced to pure shit.

So why should I be flagging people that are doing this?

Well, because they suck. And in my eyes, they are absolutely detrimental to the entire platform. Not only are they lazy, but they're robbing the rewards pool, the very thing that pays YOU, the legitimate content creators that are making this platform successful, beautiful, and fruitful for all.

What does flagging actually do?

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXfYNpxwpKzzix35wa7pdYGP7podqGPVxVyVPjqrrRMcR/image.png) ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNnu1xXRko6BUafoJQfWG5PW6UyuPT9oYwcidpdSJMMn6/image.png) When you flag something, you essentially are saying: > *"I do not think that this post is worth what is currently being shown, so I want to remove some of the currently allocated rewards that they are currently being granted from the rewards pool and return them to the rewards pool so that they can be allocated in a more appropriate manner, thus allowing more worthy human beings that are creating great content and helping this platform succeed to get a better, tastier, more delicious piece of the pie as they actually deserve instead of this asshole."*

So who needs flagged!?

1. Rampant self-upvoters. These are the people who are THE WORST. 1. Plagiarizers. These people are stealing content and re-posting it as if it is content that they have created. These people are essentially thieves. 1. People being assholes to people for no reason. 1. People perpetuating hateful ideologies. 1. Fraudsters/scammers/trolls/spammers. 1. Whoever you think needs to be rewarded less for their content. That is your right.

BE VIGILANT!!! SPREAD THE WORD!!!

FLAGGING IS YOUR CIVIC DUTY AS A PARTICIPANT ON THE STEEM PLATFORM! FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT, BE A HERO, AND START FLAGGING THE BAD GUYS! WHEN YOU FLAG PEOPLE WHO DO NOT DESERVE THE REWARD THEY ARE GETTING, YOU ARE RETURNING THAT BACK TO THE REWARDS POOL SO THAT IT CAN BE DISTRIBUTED MORE FAIRLY! SO START DOING IT!

Over and out!!! - @MATT-A / @AGORIC.SYSTEMS PLEASE CONSIDER @AGORIC.SYSTEMS FOR WITNESS ![U5druLRqUt9Nf9pvDSFUtG6xMrc81yt.gif](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXSHJzA5hiA2BhoDkYLa3HMki6LXqZ1whqQuWMYnT29ce/U5druLRqUt9Nf9pvDSFUtG6xMrc81yt.gif)