These days I learned about the use and abuse of steem flags. One of the people I follow, made a post
on the use of flags and a kind of debate was opened on this subject. I must admit that until now I was ignorant of this matter and even a little naive. I knew that flags were placed on plagiarized posts or spam comments. From that discussion I learned that many times this mechanism is used as a weapon of revenge, not because the material is bad or is a plagiarism, but because there is something against who writes the post. In the same way, I knew that some people with a lot of power and reputation can use this resource to crush other minors.
I think it's important to know about this issue because you don't know when you can be a victim of this outrage, or on the contrary, realize that by a bad action within the Steemit community you can earn a flag.
In my case, I think that sometimes we misunderstand the remedy of punishment. Sometimes punishing someone and making the punishment public can be a lesson to you and others. But it can also be a psychological outrage against the other person. There are levels of misdemeanor that deserve levels of punishment. I think there are a lot of people out there, because they have power (there are even presidents) over the others without any consideration. And this is also seen in Steem. Greetings and thanks.