In my opinion to delete flags completely encourages plagiarism and farming.
The problem of HIVE is that a big part of the downvotes are retaliation, "I don't like your opinion" or "I won't allow you to upvote comments [or anything else] while I myself am a whale and can do automated curation sniping as well as publishing one shit post every day without getting punished."
STEEM is dead apart from the great but very small DU (Deutsch Unplugged) communty of 
RE: Hivechess Tournament Round 7: @tungphong and @zacherybinx were the winners!