You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: What does flagging do exactly?
A flag is simply a "downvote", they are one in the same. The downvote shows up next to the post as a "flag" basically keeping count of all the downvotes on that post. A downvote counters an upvote with the same SP (and voted at the same percentage). These downvotes (flags) by asshole and blacklist are being done at 1% voting strength and the accounts themselves have very little SP. Which means these downvotes (flags) will have basically no effect on a post in terms of the rewards it makes. It is annoying yes, but really shouldn't effect anything. The ironic part is that if everyone gets flagged, in essence, no one gets flagged... not sure what their goal is here?
Thanks, that was comprehensive.
Any way to deal with those accounts?Maybe they're trying to see how much they can fuck with the system.
Also: where do you get this info, so I don't have to ask in the future?
That is a good question! Most of the basic info about the site comes from the whitepaper, which is linked in the drop-down menu in the upper right side of your screen (3rd option down). However, much of that info has since changed. The best thing to do is follow the steemitblog account (https://steemit.com/@steemitblog) which posts updates to the site from time to time.
Nice. Thank you!