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RE: A lot of Plagiarism on Steemit
What exactly "flag" means and does?
I tried to upvote some new posts. It feels that some of them are automatically created because text is not corresponds with picture, has errors and authors does not reply to comments...
Flag is just an upvote but the other way around ;-)
Being serious now, under the hood it looks like this:
Every user has their own Steem Power which determines impact on post's potential payout.
You can decide to apply that with range from -100% to +100%.
On a web page, for beginners, it's usually limited to simply upvote is +100% vote, flag is -100% vote
Users with bigger amounts of Steem Power can fine-tune those amounts (i.e. give +1% vote which I'm going to do with your comment just now)
So upvote is karma "+" and flag is karma "-". I like systems with ability to "unlike". So hips of garbage can be filtered and hidden by hive mind. And we can end up reading reasonable comments/posts.
But how it works with rewards? Person getting the flag loses some steem power or not?
Person flagging content temporary loses 1% of voting power similar to upvoting?
Flagging is same as voting in matter of using your voting power.
No, downvoted (aka flagged) person doesn't lose anything that they already have except of reputation)
So if Alice flags Bob's post, the potential payout for that post is decreased (proportionally to Alice voting/steem power.) but in worst case it would be $0 potential payout.
thanks for explanation I didn't realized that :)