The purported purpose of Steem's "proof of brain" was to get cryptocurrency in the hands of the masses. It is been demonstrated well by Facebook and Youtube that you shouldn't stay loyal to a single platform but to post to multiples.
Most of my followers who are on Steem have migrated to Hive and I find I am posting on two chains instead of just one. I never was a big fan of banning and flagging users. This is something that they don't do on Whaleshares.
Some of my views that may get punished here on Hive will still collect votes on Whaleshares and actually convert itself to rewards by those who appreciate my posts. There are others who have been flagged in the past for their views and not for reasons that flags were supposed to be used for.
Now those who are using their monetary savings to powerup a flag enabled system can get their votes essentially neutered for voting on Hive or Steem, and if the dislike that there are forks of Steem, including flagless Blurt and Whaleshares.
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