Yes they do go in the reward pool, but also create hatred, demotivation and disappointment in the community, leading to some whales cashing out their SP, which in turn leads to steem price getting lower. And then some whales like fuzzy sponsor various projects and contests and if they get downvoted, then they have less to share. So yes, you do get affected, you want or not!!!!
As they say all actions in the universe affect us, no matter how much unrelated they seem! :)
If I had something like this happen, I'd ask what it was that caused the flag and what I can change to get the flagging person's buy in, or ask for an alternative proposal.
I have yet to see that mentioned anywhere else in all of this.
Oh ok. I would like to reply for your comment there. See to you it seems that this is a personal matter between 2 adults and we should not interfere. Also you said that we are aligning towards the parties which we are slightly acquainted with and does more harm than good. For this I would just like to say again, that these were not the personal posts of fuzzy which were downvoted. If it had been that way, then it be a different story. Then fuzzy wouldn't have got so much support. In fact fuzzy himself declines the post payouts on his personal posts!!! The reason for all this hand wringing and lamentations is that we the minnows and other common steemians are affected by this. Some of these downvoted posts were contest posts, where downvotes can't be justified. I might not get my rewards for the participation, should I not cry for that! Then there were posts of hangouts, the very hangouts where a year before now, the idea of Steemit was conceived. Perhaps you are underestimating fuzzy's contributions to the steemit. Even Bitshares was developed because of fuzzy and coming soon proper payment app for Steemit is also coming with support of Fuzzy. If you really can't support a guy who is only doing good for the steemit community, just because you weren't flagged down, then it's a bit selfish (saying in general and not to you). It could be that you have not understood Fuzzy's project completely. You should visit this discord server: https://discord.gg/B9BWJT9 . You will see the what I see!!! :-)
I am totally unaffected by flag wars.
In fact, if there are whales flagging each other's posts into oblivion, those rewards should go back into the pool shouldn't they?
Yes they do go in the reward pool, but also create hatred, demotivation and disappointment in the community, leading to some whales cashing out their SP, which in turn leads to steem price getting lower. And then some whales like fuzzy sponsor various projects and contests and if they get downvoted, then they have less to share. So yes, you do get affected, you want or not!!!!
As they say all actions in the universe affect us, no matter how much unrelated they seem! :)
Which is why I made this comment on another post.
I have yet to see that mentioned anywhere else in all of this.
But what do I know?
Could you please link this post of yours? Or was it the sweetsssj one only?
It was only a comment on this post:
https://steemit.com/community/@eirik/the-person-you-should-know-officialfuzzy#@theblindsquirl/re-whatsup-re-theblindsquirl-re-eirik-the-person-you-should-know-officialfuzzy-20170803t172508124z
Oh ok. I would like to reply for your comment there. See to you it seems that this is a personal matter between 2 adults and we should not interfere. Also you said that we are aligning towards the parties which we are slightly acquainted with and does more harm than good. For this I would just like to say again, that these were not the personal posts of fuzzy which were downvoted. If it had been that way, then it be a different story. Then fuzzy wouldn't have got so much support. In fact fuzzy himself declines the post payouts on his personal posts!!! The reason for all this hand wringing and lamentations is that we the minnows and other common steemians are affected by this. Some of these downvoted posts were contest posts, where downvotes can't be justified. I might not get my rewards for the participation, should I not cry for that! Then there were posts of hangouts, the very hangouts where a year before now, the idea of Steemit was conceived. Perhaps you are underestimating fuzzy's contributions to the steemit. Even Bitshares was developed because of fuzzy and coming soon proper payment app for Steemit is also coming with support of Fuzzy. If you really can't support a guy who is only doing good for the steemit community, just because you weren't flagged down, then it's a bit selfish (saying in general and not to you). It could be that you have not understood Fuzzy's project completely. You should visit this discord server: https://discord.gg/B9BWJT9 . You will see the what I see!!! :-)