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RE: NEW PEOPLE: How to deal with jerks that love to censor ideas they dislike...
I hear about down voting a lot. I'm mean I'm a bit new here but I also know that the use of some bots is allowed. My thing is isn't that like a contradiction...A lot of invisible rules here on STEEM but yet publicly I see people speaking on things that have me like..."wait...isn't that cheating?" It's a bit confusing.
You can't block certain things with code. This include bots. Bots just mimic a person there is no true way to detect them, trying to do so would false flag a lot of real people. Bots are built to just do the steps a person would do.
Is it cheating? Some people may say yes. Since we can't beat it with code we have to just as a community not support such people, and support those we see as doing good acts for steemit. Some bad things will happen. Humanity has not solved "cheating" in any endeavor in history. Humans will find a way to cheat. So does it happen here? Yes. It does however seem to be much less than other places. The down vote is also used much less here than places like Reddit. Yet when it is used due to potential loss of rewards it feels a lot more like an attack. Yet this is a personal perception and WE can control our personal perceptions as long as we've learned to recognize them.
Great post once again pa dwin, Flagging is an issue, and will always be an issue as long as humans are behind the keys of any account. I believe the keynote to take awy from all these is to be moderate. A certain person which I do not wish to name(someone mention him a littledown) has quite some bots and a number of accounts on steemit, and he holds no bars when it comes to flagging. Then again, I believe using bots is cheating, though depending on the context. Ive found the use and help from minnowsupport and randowhale immerse, but there are bots out there that basically do nothing but cheat the system. I do understand that the blockchain is free for all, but when steemit grows ti a very large number, little problems like these could become major issues.
just like youtube and reddit.
I don't think it'll ever be as bad as youtube and reddit.
Jerks quickly stop making money and don't do as well here so while it happens I've also encountered people that are "admitted" trolls on every other platform that are not one here. So it'll never get as bad as those places.
With that said if they believe everyone should not be interested in the same things they are not interested in and they want to force it upon all of us and they happen to be VERY powerful then our support or lack of support becomes meaningless.
I only know of one person that seems to have been consistently like that, but I don't know if he still is. I think he may have focused his energies elsewhere. Though I can't really tell you as he has a great many accounts and a ton of power.
We can't make it go away completely, just like you can't make people like that go away in any other thing in real life... not just social media.