RE: Do Steemians approve of righteoushitting?
Thanks for the feedback. Appreciated.
When you enter a platform there are some rules that you kind of accept. One of that is that anyone can comment under the article and write short or long answers. This isn't "stalking" - even if someone goes around and follows you in all your threads and do the same.
I think the solution to this is to form like-minded coteries where those who offend your devoted followers are no longer visible. They are still on the blockchain, but the followers have chosen to erase the negativity from their feeds. I have an idea for an algorithm to accomplish this. Fully optional of course and at the discretion of every user how they view the data from the blockchain (a free market with unbounded degrees-of-freedom).
There is no benefit for us to have trolls in our coteries. Constructive criticism yes. Incessant trolling no.
But even if you hadn't, most people would say that you give too much importance to something that is not very important. At least from a third-party perspective.
How is someone stalking and destroying the comment threads in all your blog posts (if it comes to that, which it appeared it was with 3 blog posts of stalking) not very important? At that point, you'd might as well just give up, because everytime you blog post, you know that same stalker is going to come in and berate you. You'd rather go some where else.
From what I'm seeing you sorted the issue.
Yes only because I put my foot down. But I think also because @arhag played the role of mediator to give an excuse to deescalate. And also I should acknowledge that he also became more fair in his assessment. I tried to go easy on him in the first few exchanges in Part 1 and from my perspective he kept escalating. So when it followed me to my next blog and then again to blog Part 2, I escalated it all the way, to make it stop.
At age 51, I don't need that kind of strife and stress in my life. I am trying to cure from a chronic illness and I have enough stress just trying to do my work.
The first line of "downvoting" and "concealing" one's answers is in your mind. You are not forced to take anyone seriously or even read what they write.
If there's too much trolling on threads, and this becomes a serial problem, then the person involved is simply putting at stake his reputation due to fear of multiple downvotes. And if most devoted members see this as a problem, it is kind of certain that he will get them sooner or later. So the problem can already be solved with the downvotes/flagging if the behavior is not right (as it is perceived by most people involved in the thread)
@alexgr, I think a private messaging feature could have helped @sigmajin and I work out our misunderstanding more easily. The problem was when all our discussion was public, it became a reputation content. And it became noisy for readers.
Disagree when it impacts our reputation and thus our following and earnings.
Again I think I may have algorithmic idea for a solution. And as in most of my ideas, I don't favor a globalized metric, as that can become censorship.
Not always. Because people are conflicted about creating global censorship wars which drag everyone down into the gutter.
Globalized metrics really don't work because they lack sufficient degrees-of-freedom. And IMO that is precisely what the problem is with Steem as currently designed.