During these past few days several members of the #minnowsupportproject have been victimized by other users with a much higher SP in retaliation for flagging plagiarised content or for simply asking reasonable questions regarding a questionable endeavor. Their posts have been decreased in value and hidden due to poor ratings. Luckily the minnow support project and it's resident whales and dolphins rallied to their defence and reinstated these posts and increased their values.
We know the flagging system is being abused. Someone once claimed they had 'accidentally' flagged a comment of mine. Of course this is nonsense as when you hit the little flag button this comes up, describing what the feature is to be used for and you have to confirm you really meant to do it.
What this should show minnows is the importance of either picking your fights with caution or keep your head low and avoid the flak altogether. You have little SP to defend yourself against these attacks by unscrupulous users. I fully understand your frustration at seeing questionable content and can sympathise with the righteous indignation you feel when you put your heart and soul into your work, only to see others flaunt the Steemit guidelines.
If your flag attacker has much more power than you, also maybe having a second account with which to back them up, they can wipe your posts from visibility. Eventually your reputation will go down and once that is gone it is very hard to crawl your way back from.
I implore you to use caution and to instead bring these matters to the attention of steemit-abuse in Steemit chat or any dolphin/whale friends you may have. Do not do anything publically, don't draw attention to yourself. It is hard enough to make it here without having to deal with such nonsense.
It may look cowardly to some but think of it as a survival tactic: if you were a rabbit in the wild would you chase down a fox?
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