I highly agree with the first one. But I think the assumption that people almost always use flagging to improve the platform is wrong. Many only use it as a power tool to pressure others to act the way they like. In cases like this it is mandatory for negative power to be small so only a crowd can use it for applying pressure. Even so, it's still prune to abuse to power groups in the community.

If we are going to make a mature product we shouldn't rely on manual reporting like down-votes anymore. There should be better ways to approach the problem.