I am so sad that you are starting to go that way as well. All that valuable voting power could be used to support people who actually produce good content on the blockchain.
I am so against this flagging business and find it very ego driven and hurtful to the community. Hundreds of good content creators leave because they are not seeing their posts rewarded.
I very much believe that we grow the things we put energy toward. The flagging community is growing the problem of lousy content by diverting their valuable possible upvotes for good content. I truly hope that you reconsider that move.
And no matter how "experienced" the people are that decide who gets a downvote - it is still censorship.
Anyway, as I am writing this I feel myself getting more and more annoyed and I don't want to start my day that way.
But honestly, initiatives like that have made me consider more than once to give up on Steem.
@mariannewest
It might surprise you. but we want to see good content creators get more rewards too.
Something you might be overlooking, is: when an abuser DOESN'T get a reward for their useless content, the rewards of other content creators increases. That's how the reward pool works. It distributes a more or less fixed amount of STEEM, between those with a positive pending payout on their posts. So the less STEEM abusers get, the more high quality content creators such as yourself earn.
For instance the whale-no-voting experiment started by @abit two years ago, increased the voting power of every minnow by a significant sum. In other words, less posts with pending payouts, a higher payout for the remaining posts.
Regarding whether this is censorship or not: even when a post reaches 0.00$ payout, it's not hidden from the various Steem UI (steemit, steempeak, etc'). Everyone can still access it, and be exposed to the content of the post(no matter how useless it is). The word you're looking for is demonetization, which means, making certain types of content\activity unprofitable; i.e posting random images from the internet to upvote them for 2$, each.
People can post whatever they want to Steem. But it doesn't mean they should necessarily earn from it
@mariannewest, we are revising the SFR system so that credits are issued and can instead be used by content creators on quality contributions to this chain. (Instead of generic follow on flag comments.)
I think flagging is often a thankless job but someone has gotta do it. We are trying to give something back to help keep your platform clean.
@steemflagrewards fysa
Hi @mariannewest, thank you for the comment.
I'm on my phone at the moment and so cannot give you the response your comment deserves, I will reply with more when I get home.
My posts were recently flagged by @spaminator without explanation and 36 hours later have received no response as to why. It's discouraging and will result in my powering down and leaving the platform.
https://steemit.com/contest/@votum/contests-flagged
I see you are asking for upvotes, this is listed as spam/abuse in the FAQs.
There are many contests that run the same way, and so it's unfortunate you have been 'targeted'.
You are mistaken @abh12345 my contests do not ask for upvotes they inform contestants of the option to upvote or comment.
“Predict the winner by voting my comment or posting a comment to share 100% of liquid rewards...”
Upvotes are not required to receive rewards. There are no other contests that run the same way as mine. Most of them require an upvote to participate and it's unexplained why mine were selectively persecuted. I'm not interested in being coerced and bullied into how I post or use my voting stake, so I will simply power down and move on to more fruitful activities.
Totally don't need upvotes there. /s
issa option lmao
The logical connector OR indicates that either statement is an option. Voting a comment is an option the same as posting a comment is an option. Do you understand?
Do you know how to read subscripts?
Sign up for Bitconnect, or not. It's an option, but I would really like you to do it. lol
Many contestants chose not to upvote and received prizes for correct predictions. I don't understand your point.
That's too bad.