RE: ChillQuill Lights Up The Quill Grill ... "QuillFire Roast or Toast" Contest (Daughter's Edition ... My 1st Steemit Post)
Katie, I am so sorry that your introduction to Steemit has been marred in this way. What a baptism of fire.
I am apalled at the spat that MarkyMark ( I am deliberately not tagging any of the culprits) has started and at the profanity (to use Quill's word). "Bernie Sanders" stopped by one of my posts via instagram yesterday and this is what transpired:
I think I should go back and flag those comments.
I am by no means a prude and can, at times have a foul mouth, but I pick my moments and if on a public platform, I pick my targets carefully. Profanity has no place in what should be an adult argument. They are behaving worse than school boy bullies who must take their fights behind the bicycle sheds.
Not wanting profanity is not about censorship. It's about manners and common decency, not to mention respect for one's fellow human being.
I am not going to weigh in on the governance issues - I am on the same page as @quillfire and a few others. I have also had my say on bullies and their behaviour, in comments on various posts, and which is unnecessary, and a whole lot more hurtful than they like to think. Or perhaps it's what they want and they get some sort of masochistic pleasure out of being just nasty.
Anyhow, again, I am sorry Katie, and I hope that this does not deter you from a potentially fun time on Steemit.
Fiona
@fionasfavourites,
Thanks Fiona.
I could not believe my eyes as I read through this stupidity. These are Whales and Witnesses ... the guys running the show. To be honest, I'm not sure who started what and what this latest war is about. But this kind of childish behavior is what I've been writing about.
We need Rules of Conduct and mechanisms for their enforcement.
We bust our asses trying to elevate Steemit in the eyes of the world .... but this is what people are exposed to when they arrive to see what we're talking about. And yet their Voices mean a million times more than yours and mine combined ... just because they have a fistful of pesos.
Spare me.
Quill
I know, @quillfire. It is exactly this kind of conduct and comments (not bot spam) I have seen that have added to my wanting to write about bullying. It's a work in progress. It might now become 2 posts. I weighed in on this in the PHC Discord channel with @nickyhavey and @wales. Will leave it at that for the moment. Oh, and one of the individuals concerned has lost my witness vote.
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@fionasfavourites,
The blockchain DOES NOT belong to them. It belongs to us. The code's only value is its ability to connect one human being with another. It will require a fight to make Steemit what it ought to be, but all things in life worth having require that you fight for them.
Nothing is free.
BTW, good for you for having the guts to stand up and speak your mind. A Culture of Cowardice has overtaken Steemit and that is enabling these shenanigans. Thankfully, courage is contagious.
Quill
@quillfire
Again, I agree. Let's see how courageous I end up being. Having been bullied - that's part of the post(s), and as I said in the off-steemit discussion, I shun confrontation. I have grown into som big-girl panties through my last major contract in my old day job.
That said, I have a looong history of advocating for the underdog and apparent lost causes. Because, of course, I don't believe they are.
Being a glass half full (of wine) versus a glass half empty girl.
PS - you need to go and check you my broomstick. Your apology to Princess Pearli was graciously accetped.
On that score, good evening. Time to do supper. ;)
@fionasfavourites,
Courage is not the absence of fear, it is one's manner of comportment in spite of it.
Quill