Asher, I know that you are one of the good guys and that you mean well. And I don't think that you are ego driven. But I stand by my opinion that I dislike the idea that anybody has the right to say this is worthy content and this is not. I.e. in my opinion, all the drug war and steem monster posts are spam or irrelevant and not any better than posting a pretty picture from the internet with correct attribution.

I am all for fighting plagiarism. But what is valuable content to one is trash to another. I.e. I have been hated on for promoting Freewrites on Steem and people have been told that their posts are not good enough. But, so many people have found a voice through this exercise, found community, got curie upvotes, and even published books. Still, that person(s) might see flags for that kind of content appropriate.

Also, reading through the convo on this post is only wanting me to run even further from the flagging crowd. Calling someone a bitch, really? From what I am reading, it is a person who is a leader in this flag community. What happened to step away when getting angry. Or to let it go?
This convo makes me doubt that decisions are not biased. What about the guy who runs the contest and got flagged and is now ready to leave steem? Tons of people ask for upvotes and he gave an option to upvote or leave a comment. I thought that was clear. But he got argued into the ground on that one too. And he must have been flagged as well since his responses were hidden.
When I first joined, I read the White Papers and I am pretty sure it said no bots. There are tons of bots. So rules are enforced arbitrarily.
And, in the end, it is the ones with more money who get to push their will on the others.

That said, you do what you feel is right and I will stay as far away from the flag crowd as I possibly can.