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RE: The Problem With Flags - Educational Post
You see I wouldn't consider it involuntary redistribution because when I arrived I was always aware that the rewards are not actually mine until after the payout. Until then they are part of the pool and the distribution is still being decided.
I've often had a post go from something like $90 down to $80 not because of any flags but because the whales woke up and just started upvoting other things.
Thank you for the comment and resteem :)
This is true, yet the argument for the downvote that is often used is exactly for redistribution. The person did not agree that someone else up voted the post to make a certain amount, so they choose to vote to redistribute some of that.
That is involuntary.
I don't know about you, but a big part of the appeal of steem power and accumulating it is the ability to reward people more. If someone with more power on a WHIM because they do not like something, disagree with it, or think it has no value can flag it and thus NEGATE my interest then that is involuntarily stating that my interest did not exist, and that my steem power had no value.
Any redistribution where the person that has the redistribution applied to them without them agreeing is involuntary. If I instead provide my steem power to a pool, that is voluntary.
It is basically the difference between me deciding to donate to a charity, or volunteer to assist in a project, and people forcefully taking my income and spending it where they like (such as wars of aggression). I freely admit I am an anarchist (or if you prefer Libertarian) so I am very anti-involuntary redistribution. I see it as no different than theft. Sure it was POTENTIAL earnings, but those earnings can be potential due to steem value fluctuating, and the overall distribution of the pool. Those things happen without someone negating my vote for something that was my interest. It is suddenly as if my interest in something no longer existed. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LIKE SUCH THINGS HERE.
Hey @beanz
Paying The Goons to Hit on some Account ????
It was meant to be satirical. They buy votes, so do I but they chose upvotes to redistribute, I chose down votes to redistribute. Only one person got the joke it seems.
I leave you alone for now.
Is not my business.
Will let you do the Fat Trimming.
I am now mainly catching the syndicate , stop giving to the wrong accounts.