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RE: What if someone put a child abuse picture on Steemit
I don't think it can ever be erased, but it seems that even now, certain accounts and their posts are made invisible. I have no idea how that all works
it's the same as reddit, when you flag you are actually downvoting... and when it goes under zero, it's hidden.
Yes, but my understanding is that it's hidden on Steemit. Other sites that are based on the same blockchain may have different rules. In fact, they could decide to to the opposite, they could make a forum where downvote posts are promoted. Although not a very likely application to be created, it's very possible.
Well, the blockchain is basically just the database, and Steemit is the application which fetch data from the database and display it in your web browser. Steemit have computer code that says something in the lines of "when I come across downvoted users or posts, hide that data in the web browser". But other people my chosse to build websites that fetch only those downvoted posts, only posts tagged as "science", or in the worst case, only posts containing childe abuse material.
Thanks for explaining that. I have no clue how all of that works. That is a problem - not that I have no clue, but that others do who might abuse it....
Exactly. For a computer techie it should be easy to develop those type of sites I mentioned.