RE: As Steem grows, so does the presence of the trolls
That would be nice, but the problem is that even if you could get the competent people, and enough of them, you couldn't get the funding for it, and then you would have to deal with issues of corruption or otherwise bias.
The people that police the site for awful content are the people that pollute the site with awful content, and everyone else. The community polices itself.
You, among others, believe that terms like "malicious assault" give your story more credibility and importance, but it doesn't, you were flagged, by the community, and more precisely, your content, the content you authored was flagged by the community. There was no boogieman on the internet, who assaulted you, as much as you like to equate it to such, it was simply people curating content, or better yet, people speaking their minds.
Like the troll that now tags along everywhere I go, you are affected by words on a screen that strangers type up. I am not saying that those things don't affect people, or they shouldn't, I am simply drawing attention to that fact, that is usually equated to what you eat I don't shit. What they think of you, what they comment, is not what you must think or what is true, it's simply what they think of you. I am not saying that don't care about what people say or think about you at all, because I think everything catering for considerable should be considered so that excludes considering insulting remarks, or blatant lies, but not a reasoned insult pertaining to what we were discussing.
I agree with most of your comment. However, I was not flagged it was the post put out about me which was flagged. The 'Police' did their job well in my case. I am sorry they have not in others. I really appreciate the dialogue and time you have taken to explain things to me. X
I understand and I am happy people stepped in and dealt with the content and hopefully they were reasonable and considerate in their response because there's always a line between necessary and unnecessary that easily gets crossed and could ruin any good that was done, but even if it wasn't a flag attack and it was a character attack, that still doesn't mean malicious attack is a better and more accurate description than something along the lines of someone made a [adjective for bad] post about me [my character] in that situation. There's no doubt that many will agree with you that it was indeed a malicious attack, but people in the community by and large are thoughtful and considerate people and will happily hear you out and join in if the words you use sharp, or are in line with what you're describing and aren't used as a megaphone to draw attention.
You are very kind and understanding, thank you. You put things very well. X