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RE: Steemit Flag Wars: You don't have to flag anyone if you don't want to. Help the Steem community to survive by using your power to HEAL.
hey @phgnomo - very good post, straight to the topic. I think a lot of users out here just keep silence as they fear to get between the frontlines... I saw it right in the beginning when Tuck of @SPL criticised what was going on around here and for this very posts got all his other posts which were founding the Steemit Poker League( @SPL) got flagged down. THat in fact almost killed the complete communiy with an instance... I don´t think that this really is what this platform should be alike... and this exaple showed pretty much that even smallest critism of a neutral person will not be tollerated.
I believe something has to be done, however I can totally understand most the minnows having fear getting involved in here.
Lots of users i know have opinions, on both sides, but they just dont say anything, because they dont have any power.
I saw good people getting flags on both sides.
The thing about flags is that everyone may use them as they want, and there is no problem with that.
The problem begins when people start to get flagged because of their opinions. This is the same effect as someone with a huge power in the "real world" use this power to control everyone.
People should use their flags as they wanted, but we need some balance on the system, or else everything will fall appart, and all those STEEM will be worth less than a Bitconnect Coin.
That´s what I´m saying ... if one cannot stand up onto his/her opinion no more because of fear of those kind of users then the entire community here at STEEMIT is at risk & a lot of new people who just joined in will most likely not stay here for long...
If one opinion mustn´t be outspoken no more we are here already on the way to a monopolistic structure/ dictatorship.
Indeed. But Steemit is a decentralized platform. There is no one taking care of what is just or unjust. This is up to the community.
But the problem start when a part of the community that have enough power to do anything just stay on the sideline caring only about their own money.
The flags have its reason to exist, and they are useful, but they may also be used in a bad way, and some people see them as aggression.
Don't want to use them? fine, no problem, but at least try to care about the community in another way.
That is the beatiful part of Steemit: Its pretty hard to achieve a full dictator status, because of the power distribution, but if part of the community don't stand on the way of someone trying to do it, i may start to become easy to do so.
I suppose most of the minnows don't know because this has grown too large.
However, it's humans acting here. Not a perfect society. Just my two cents.