Maybe, but it's still an open question as to whether the harm of flag wars outweighs the harm of some percentage of low quality posts earning unjustified rewards.
RE: Why I am quitting steemit - and you should too
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I'd be ok with getting rid of flagging if there were some other mechanism to deal with plagiarism/abuse, but there isn't an alternative.
I think that being able to remove the financial incentive for plagiarism helps to somewhat keep it down. If you make it so that there is no punishment whatsoever I think people would be encouraged to do it even more than they do now.
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