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RE: A Steem Island Adventure: How the King of the Ocean @dantheman destroyed my Fishing Boat
It is tough being a whale.... you try so to make friends and keep the bad guys at bay.
The good news is that every day is a new day, and today you earned my vote.
@dantheman I understand that you try your best to protect steem with flagging for tag abuse, but currently especially with the new reputation system this creates a lot of collateral damage.
Many newbies come, post something with wrong tags, get hidden by a whale for it and then happen to be invisible though the new reputation system.
I would suggest to let people simply vote what tags are right or wrong like other platforms do.
What also could help is some kind of yellow card, that warns a user of his wrongdoing. A yellow card can reduce the payout, maybe not that drastically like a flag, but is not counted for the reputation score.
What would help greatly is having clear Rules, expectations and the social contract pinned very prominently on the menu bar. Right now I don't see a place where newbies can get oriented with the community rules quickly, right at the start, and review those rules if any doubts.
I strongly agree! Especially in tiny foreign language speaking communities, this can be devastating. To quote myself:
"The german speaking steem community so far is so tiny that yesterday a whale megadownvote of one of its members by an english speaking whale had eradicated quite a proportion of it and caused a certain stirr, with other german speaking steemers posting the letter of the downvoted guy in solidarity and protests of censorship on Steemit risking to go viral in Germany before Steemit had even got viral itself!"
https://steemit.com/steemit/@fabio/speaking-of-ants-the-germants-are-endangered-here
Inspired by this article and out of my own experience helping the ¨sunken ships¨I summarized some suggestions how we could evolve further. Hope you enjoy: ¨Tagging and Flaggin¨ hope you enyog: https://steemit.com/steemit/@arcurus/tagging-and-flagging-hidden-by-a-whale-how-to-evolve-further
Now I've got Townshend stuck in my head:
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
No one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be fated
And now you do too!
You do a great job Dan but the current impact of flags on newbies is a huge problem
https://steemit.com/steemit/@august-newbie/flag-abuse-or-how-to-kill-the-steemit-community
(Though I'm now thinking that I shouldn't have used the word abuse -- it was inspired by the fact that a low reputation individual was able to exile a newbie when we didn't see a problem with the post. With @smooth's flag -- and explanation of the flag -- and, hopefully, the future now-that-the-point-has-been-made removal of his flag, it clearly wasn't abuse, though it remains drastically excessive and likely to lose the community many newbies).
Thank you for taking the time to read through my funny story and comment. I appreciate it. And I can imagine that life as a whale is hard! Afterall you are just trying to do your job, and I know that. All the best.
👍wow amazing adventure @sirwinchester