I do not know how many pages I have read on this subject, argued by those pro-flagging and those against it and I do not see any of the pro flaggers willing to consider the points made by the other side as only their own point of view is valid...to them. Of course they have the advantage that the same whales who kill Steemit with their stupid posts being rewarded ($1400 for a post with one photo - sorry, not a photo, a stupid snapshot lacking any talent or beauty) are backing the flaggers, since it helps prevent new growth and new whales being created. Can you imagine how bad they would look if whales who have talent came into existence?

I do not say that a plagiarist should be rewarded, what I object to is using bots, which having found similar material elsewhere, punishes by flagging...without it being capable of reading and understanding that the poster has already mentioned that this post is a copy of an article he wrote in his own blog site - or, as I saw recently an article was copied by the poster AFTER he secured permission from the original author.

There is also a difference between flagging and Flagging-en-masse so as to take the poster all the way down to zero rep. That I will always fight against.

At least you argued your case, which is how it should be done, not like that stupid comment by #enforcer who tried to insinuate I have no brain.