I think the abuse of others could be handled by each person that is being abused useing their say 1  flag to downvote it  , and have cheetah and steem cleaners take care of it from there ! You shouldnt be allowed to just flag hundreds of times for absolutly no reason , while contributeing 0 to the platform ! There needs to be consequences ! Thnks for replyint!😉👍

>Limiting flags ( negative votes ) : If there was an account that posted abuse under every post, you would want to be able to flag all that abuse, wouldn't you ?

Maybe accounts could be awarded one flag for each reply it gets? I know, it would probably be too complicated to implement, but not a lot of flag would be needed anyway to downvote abuse from another account to the (negative reputation) point of not seeing all of its spam or else. So I would much prefer limiting the number of flags, with still the collective good will to shut down serial abusers, than to see the stigma of flags on exemplary users. And on the other hand, considering the flags as only sucessful or not downvotes nullyfies its purpose of countering abuse, in other words it renders the flag useless (so why not add simple downvotes instead of flags?). Plus taking the position to simply ignore flags from accounts with less power isn't a solution for newcomers.