I think flags are vital to Steem sustainability. I just think they cause a lot of damage because of the lack of education about them in the UI space as well as general lack of education how steem works, why it's decentralized, who runs it. and so on and so fourth. This user shared steemit to millions of followers on mainstream platform Russia Today, Yet was flagged off the platform over a simple misunderstanding about when to enable rewards and what content is acceptable to whom (he shared a youtuber's video with a comment about it) @keiserreport
One thought, how do we mitigate the damage done to steem by the flags? If that's hiding flags from UI, removing rewards($ and numbers) from UI for posts (only show votes) or other measures. I would probably be in favor of those measures if taken by front ends. At least as an experimental test.