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RE: Steemit Is Ruled By A Communist Party - Flags Wars Look Worse To Investors Than The Rampant Abuse They Claim To "Fight"
Man this is so spot on, this little war has been so toxic to the platform. Its at the top of trending everyday. People really love control and right now it's easy to have control if you have a lot of SP. I'm not sure what could be done to alleviate the issues, but I think some action needs to be taken to squash this kind of useless behavior. We need to brainstorm possible solutions! This platform needs to stay alive, it has so much potential
This is the only solution I know of, short of the extreme that some other users are attempting of starting their own fork of Steem:
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/279
The flaggers oppose this solution, as it would allow their power to be neutered.
As Dan said:
bytemaster commented on Dec 27, 2016
"I still think that the first principles are right on this concept. Unfortunately, having logical first principles and appealing to the masses are two entirely different things."
Of course they do... they want that power to control
That was a great read, looks like Dan has already put some thought into this haha, hopefully this can be implemented and function well. I'm not sure I followed all of his logic, seemed like he was saying one user could cancel another user out, but what if one user was more active than another.
I read quick, but I'll take another look later, tanks for the reply
Yes, precisely. This would even work to help the flaggers in their stated goal, but of course, if their stated goal was their true goal they would not act the way they do.
With vote cancellation, they could simply neutralize the stake of the voter they feel is over-rewarding content, rather than attacking an author with flags simply for receiving votes, then falling back on a Marxist cry of "he's getting too much!" when confronted.
These damn haijins are trying to take our jobs!
Ahh I see, so a whale could cancel a whale on single posts and comments, that sounds really doable actually.
I wish you massive suckouts in this here poker game
disclaimer: there were jokes in this comment, bad jokes, but jokes
"I wish you massive suckouts in this here poker game"
I've been getting my fair share of those lately!
Ah, they weren't so bad...I just didn't come back and see the comment until now.
Why should it stay alive, it's not even technically a good platform, and the content is mediocre - well guess why. I would expect that steemit will serve as an example for better future platforms I'm eagerly awaiting. They will have to be moderated ones as the human primate is clearly incapable of self-regulation without pre-established hierarchy - as an anarchic sort of hierarchy will then establish itself instead. This is all so dreary...
What would I want to stay on steemit for except just to see posts from about five people, which is exctly why I came here ? Ah wait, to earn money - that exactly is the one and only reason and it will stay this way.
So steemit is stuck with the hopeful money-earners, and you can see how that works out. Circle closed.
Hell, I would even have to PAY to post here if I just wanted to take part in any sensible discussion, they only allow tow or three comments a day ?
I can do that way better on other platforms, and steemit won't see a single penny from me.
"They will have to be moderated ones as the human primate is clearly incapable of self-regulation without pre-established hierarchy "
It's funny that we continue to need examples of this, despite all of human history clearly implying that some degree of rule of law is almost always preferable.
Anarchists just can't give up trying to go Galt.
"Hell, I would even have to PAY to post here if I just wanted to take part in any sensible discussion, they only allow tow or three comments a day ?"
If you're referring to bandwidth restrictions, you don't need hardly any SP to get enough bandwidth to post pretty much all day. Point well taken, however.