RE: Some info about my activity and my stance on flags
I commented on this topic just today.
I’m one of those who see the value in flagging blatant stealing or those purely operating in lust for SBD (like how it happened on this very post here).
When it comes to disagreement on reward or on topic? Well. I don’t feel I’m one to judge. I can disagree but that usually results in me skipping onto a piece I do want to read about or simply bypassing upvote. It’s helped in part by keeping a nice follow list too.
The example I cited was how Steemit recently acquired a YouTube personality that I have only tended to see showcasing rants about “SJW”. Now, I usually take that as a big red warning sign to start with. That entire debacle is currently playing out over on twitter and it’s ugly, toxic, fosters a culture of daily pointscoring (as if any one user has got the successful final word in that wins the war). So yeah, I find it adds little value and actually adds a negative value to a community. Yet there are those who value it, and the work has obviously taken time to bring to the table. A significant such, I just pass it by.
I’ve not got the weight to police things but I don’t think I should. It’s a terrific grey area and I don’t doubt I’d get it hideously wrong as we’re all prone to subjectivity.
But all the noise, the desperate three minute grabs for attention and that upvote button, all clogging and obscuring the good work done on here, happy to have an effect on that.