grumpycat isn't flagging those who disagree, he is flagging those who flag him for taking too much from the reward pool.

I've heard otherwise, from a few concerned individuals with enough power to get their voice heard. But i'm in no position to debate that.

This is a very large social experiment and is only just starting.

true, and I do love being on the cutting ed

Check what is happening in the real world. Masses support that.

your not wrong. But I'm not sure that the masses are given an opportunity to hear what should be heard.

Take for example the 200 girls kidnapped in Chibok. What is crazy about this is that before this they where sending the girls home, telling them not to study western thought. But the boys? they killed the boys. There was intense outrage at the girls being kidnapped, but complete silence on the killing of the boys.

I'm positive the outrage would have been similiar had the media reported it, but it is not reported. In fact I found myself searching for 'the red pill movie' after I'd seen it on steemit and found it very difficult to find. I could find other articles published in the last day, but not that one. I finally used peekier.com and found it. So it isn't just not reported, it is actively being censored.

What I am saying is the masses are uninformed by the royality that exists today (they don't go by those names anymore, but they are) and I have interest in preventing such things from happening here. Already if one of these whales doesn't like what you have to say they can downvote you to a insanely low reputation, not based on truth, but vendette and I think that should be consider a problem.

There are many (including me at times) who wants something a certain way without thinking through all of the knock-on consequences.

Indeed, I agree with you. But I don't think that keeping people from being overpowered is ever going to fall under that category.

It really is all very interesting to be a part of and has an exciting future ahead.

yes it is. I just hope that this issue is addressed, not that there won't be more, but I see this as being a major issue that will destroy steemit's small voices.