Downvote implies content you disagree with. Flag implies content that breaks rules. I say stick with flag.
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or have both. Downvotes is there to represent you disagreeing with rewards or how high it is sorted among comments. Flags are there to report abuse of steemit ToS and when enough people flag a post, it is reviewed to see if the content should be taken down (from steemit, not from the Steem blockchain of course, which is impossible).
No, but I think if downvotes are allowed they shouldn't impact payouts. Flags should though.
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From what I understand of it, the current flag system is to remove rewards from things like spam and plagiarized content, not content you find displeasing. For example, say you have someone posting quality right wing political content and they are voted to nothing because people with opposing opinions want to protest it. From my understanding of Steems rules, this isn't how it's supposed to work. Am I wrong or misunderstanding something?
Disagreement on rewards is the only thing you could argue in your positions favor. However, I interpret that to mean low-quality/low-effort content with big payouts, not disagreements.
Those are listed as "Some common reasons to flag" and typically "I don't like this" could fall under "Disagreement on rewards", as you had mentioned.
If someone thinks the post doesn't deserve rewards at all, then they can flag it as it's a disagreement on rewards. It doesn't require it to be low quality or low effort for someone to disagree on rewards.
But still, those are only listed as some common reasons to flag, as people can flag for any reason. Just like they can upvote without having a specific reason to upvote content.