RE: Where Did My Mango? Combined Freewrite And Comedy Open Mic (Week No. 24)
yeah, and so the most common reply to that is, it's still on the blockchain, so it's not censorship. And generally, the posts are greyed out, so you know they're there, which actually tends to make me more curious what happened, so I end up reading them anyway. The problem becomes, though, doing anything with them, because you end up guilty by association.
This whole deal where you can post and it will only come up greyed out automatically because your Rep is negative is okay for the true spammers, but when it happens to people who got on the wrong side of a higher rep account, for whatever reasons, it's absolutely a misuse of the flag.
It is true. Might makes right on this platform. For something that's suppose to elevate us, it basically runs the same as the outside world. I try to avoid it too, but sometimes it comes looking for me. And really, there is some higher SP out there that you do want to associate with. It's just navigating through the mine-filled waters to get to them that can be a royal pain.
Agreed on all counts. A royal pain is right. It takes forever to wade through and lurk about. All that reading sure is an eye opener though. I arrived in the middle of some flag wars. Spent about six weeks just reading and not saying much. Was very blessed to have met a few good people just to have someone to type with.
The point is new people come in and get scared off immediately. Bet we lose some awesome folks that way.
Not much I can do about any of that stuff. May as well just grow my account best I can and avoid troubles.
I think that's for the best. There's always someone wanting the rest of us to join in and it's like, well, first of all, my SP isn't going to do a whole lot, and second of all everyone has buddies, so even if the account being flagged can't touch my rep, someone else can.
That probably sounds like the coward's way out to some, but frankly, I didn't come here to police everyone else. I found out that was my job after the fact. I'd rather be awarding good content when I see it, and spending my voting power that way. The folks with the big reps and SP can handle the other for now. Directly or indirectly, they're responsible for the accounts doing what they're doing anyway because they refuse to get on board with the changes that will mitigate them, because it will hurt their bottom line. Then fight on! I'm going to go quietly about my business doing what I wanted to do when I came here. :/
Sounds about right to me. Besides that all the chasing down and flagging gets in the way of typing. There really just isn't time to do all of that and still do the daily Steemit stuff.