I agree that forcing people to have to put money where their mouth is does tend to weed out the chaf. But I have personally had at least one argument with a whale one time and got to experience a 300 USD downvote. I can only pray to god this guy was not vindictive enough to follow every one of my posts. I could have been rekt really badly lol.
I cant even remember what the topic was. I think that it was about EOS centrality. Its not like I was trolling the guy either.
Geeez that’s so crazy. 😬 Also impressive that you had a $300 post to downvote - back in the good old days probably when Steem was a couple bucks. 😅
But yes to your point there is an ugly, terrible side to flagging.
He nuked my zero value post into oblivion lol
It was scary though, I cant explain how nerve wracking it was to log on the next day worried that this guy would have been following me around. If it were certain other whales I would have been forced off the platform.