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RE: Why Does Getting Flagged Hurt So Much?
we should all, logically, deal with even unjust flaggings better than we do.
One man's justice is another man's criminal act. A lot of the individual downvoting seems to be spam, f4f, vote for vote, bullshit bot type comments.
Then you have the I am going to create some drama by down voting this really popular person, so that I can make a post bragging about it, so I get a lot of kudo's if I phrase my actions right, and a really really big pay-out on my post.
Then I can make a whiny post about how nobody but me is even trying to do anything about all those meanies stealing from your reward pool, so I can get even more votes and even bigger pay-out for all the drama I created.
And so steem turns the days of our lives.
"Then you have the I am going to create some drama by down voting this really popular person, so that I can make a post bragging about it, so I get a lot of kudo's if I phrase my actions right, and a really really big pay-out on my post.
Then I can make a whiny post about how nobody but me is even trying to do anything about all those meanies stealing from your reward pool, so I can get even more votes and even bigger pay-out for all the drama I created."
Ah, so you did realize the sub-text of what I was talking about!
Let's not forget hive mentality to go with it...
It is an unfortunate truism that people are generally easily swayed collectivist/communist, because thinking is hard.
Popular people will tend to have a whole lot of SP to retaliate with. I recently created a little script that posts an overview of top down others and top downvotees, and appart from the @steemcleaners and likewise actions from the powerfully against plagiarism and silly comment bots, there is actually quite some retaliation going on. A dolphin pissed about a flag by a minnow could totally obitherate that minnow, just like a whale could destroy a dolphin in retaliation without breaking a sweat. So creating drama like this? I'dd rather go to a bar where kickboxing champions hang out and start insulting everyone's mom 😁
Yeah, at least the kick-boxers can't uppercut you in the checking account. At least, not directly.
A small dolphin can do only little against a plankton.
A big dolphin like some witnesses can indeed destroy plankton if he wants it enough.
Remember a downvoter controls only his downvotes and not others' upvotes, so any account can grow while being flagged by a bigger account.
As an example, this post may be flagged by a small dolphin, but it may still cause an overall increase of my reputation and Steem Power.
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