RE: Will Flagging Ultimately End up Killing the Steemit Platform?
Sometimes wealthy Steemians will wage their influence in order to stymie access to information that they don't agree with.
For the most part, people are flagged so that they won't earn money for their shitposts, and hopefully eventually stop shitposting. Your "apparently" is intentionally obtuse and misleading.
Imagine, if you will, a busker whose been hard at work performing music for several hours on any given day. The busker sees that he now has just enough to rent that motel room, and purchase a little food, and right as he is packing up his musical instrument; someone walks up, pours gasoline in his tip jar, and then sets it aflame.
Well that's very similar to downvoting (or flagging) on Steemit, and maybe that's been Steemit's plan all along in order to thwart hyperinflation... Who knows?
You seem to be confused. The money a post earns isn't the author's until the voting is entirely complete, flags included. It does not belong to the author until all the votes are cast.
It's not similar at all. Flagging can't take anything away from you.
If you want an analogy, it would be like believing you won an election when the votes are only halfway counted.
the way in which Steemit has implemented it, it allows wealthy people to destroy value
Wrong again. The rewards are distributed to other authors and curators—just not the shitposter who got flagged.
For the most part, people are flagged so that they won't earn money for their shitposts, and hopefully eventually stop shitposting. Your "apparently" is intentionally obtuse and misleading. - @sneakOkay, so if I am to understand you correctly, you soft-censored my comments because you thought they were shit? And you are a Steemit developer? Why the hell do you encourage people to come to this platform and share content if you are going to be like that?
Dude, we got Facebook and YouTube for those kinds of shenanigans. Why do you think we left those platforms? You sir, you are single-handedly putting yourself out of a job, and you don't even realize it yet. You are going to destroy the reputation of the platform, you are going to destroy the platform itself.
You seem to be confused. The money a post earns isn't the author's until the voting is entirely complete, flags included. It does not belong to the author until all the votes are cast. It's not similar at all. Flagging can't take anything away from you. If you want an analogy, it would be like believing you won an election when the votes are only halfway counted. -@sneakFlagging collapses the comment and dithers it, which makes it barely visible, or practically invisible, unless and until you hover over it, and click reveal. This is a form of soft-censorship, you should be ashamed of yourself.
It also redirects rewards that other Steemians have attempted to allocate to me based on the merit of my post. Why is your opinion to soft-censor and divert the rewards from my comments, so much more important than 7 other people?
Do you really think, just because you have the Steem power, that that makes it right for you to be able to soft-censor and divert the potential rewards that i would have earned had you not done so? Do you even value freedom of speech on Steem?
I mean what is your agenda as a Steemit employee, do you want to drive people away from the platform. Or do you desire to modify people's posting behavior? Do you like the idea of controlling what people can say?
At the very top you said: "hopefully (people will) eventually stop shitposting". Well I can assure you that I don't think that my thoughts and ideas are shit, and you know; it sounds as if what you want to do, is control my behavior, so that I will only say things that you do not disapprove of.
Your reputation is gone dude, you've got to back down before you are done. You are just destroying yourself. I keep trying to get you to understand but it's like you cannot comprehend.
Butterfly Effect: Steemit's Resident Troll @sneak Soft-Censored Me Today
You get my first downvote ever @sneak, congrats. This topic is real and the worst aspect of steemit in my mind and your lack of this understanding the issue does not bode well for the platform, especially if you are a developer.
WHO MADE YOU the CENSOR MASTER of STEEMIT? What makes your word and comments the law here on Steemit? Where do you get off in censoring others and making their comments and posts disappear? I don't see any insults in these comments or improper attributes in the targets of your downvoted posts.
I'm downvoting your censorships in disagreement! Shame on you as a Steemit DEVELOPER acting so HITLER!
What is the difference between you and BernieSanders the thug of Steemit?
I will also reverse your downvotes on which I disagree!
Thank you kindly for your support @haejin.
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