Yep, flagging/downvoting needs to be fixed before this community hits anything close to a critical mass. The ability for anyone with enough investment to censor not only an author but take away the authors' supporters upvotes is very problematic in my opinion. No one should be able to take away what someone else has earned.

Imagine a community forming around a popular and controversial topic like abortion. A respected author who's earned upvotes on their content should not be worried about the other side taking away what they've rightfully earned and others have given.