So not a positive upvote to promote what people like or support of certain information getting out, but just popular posts win out because they have the most views? Those that don't have the views get downvoted because the supporters aren't allowed to positively affect what they want to be seen or rewarded? 

So those who have the most SP get to decide in a negative way and deny what the others want to support, rather than positively affirming support for the content they do want to support more of. There isn't a positive affirmation to denote competition. Competition and stake influence -- that is often promoted as the basis for Steemit -- is suppressed by those who don't want that content to be promoted, as it's not in the direction they have for Steemit, not in their view as you say. You don't see a problem with that? Just because it's not the content you like, you get to deny the voter support to allocate rewards as per their stake. So then it becomes about a flagging game where the only way to even out supporters of one content flagging down others posts is to do the same...

And that means 1 post in a day or in a week it doesn't matter, all that matters is that it's not the content someone wants on Steemit, so they are justified in flagging/downvoting.

> The corruption of our world is unfathomable unfortunately and the cycle of abuse never ends... I have to either know someone or play political games or buy my way up to get noticed...

And so it will be here? That if you don't have the matching SP support from others to counter flags, then those who don't want certain content to be popularized get to downvote as they like...

The moment you turned up and started flagging the trending page I thought things were going to be looking up for steemit.  I'm not advocating for "equality" but I do believe every token is more valuable when spread out and I see the same users getting thousands per day as a flaw that holds back the price.

I also appreciated @smooth and @abit's efforts with the experiment but saw their system as robotic and flawed but they must have seen it as a temporary solution that didn't target any specific authors.  I didn't see the point in countering a whale vote if it was on content that doesn't always get high rewards.  I had wished they would take the approach of just flagging those who were on the trending page every day, to give those who don't always make it a chance of exposure.  There is very little space up there at the top and those who make it every day just continue to get more and more supporters while others don't get the chance.

I'd like to see the flag normalised but also think it will never really happen as long as there are new people coming.  People were getting flagged when I first joined 11 months ago but even after I came to terms with it when I actually got one it was an emotional rollercoaster.

Sent you an email, last night, which I see you replied, thanks :). Sent you another  for meeting later.

If anyone else wants to contact me: steemit.quality@gmail.com

or join discord @ https://discord.gg/bJCnv5j and send me a message there.

Thanks.

Me too