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MINNOWS GET A ROUGH DEAL ,AND THE PRINCIPLES AND AIMS OF BLOCK CHAIN AND FREEDOM FROM REGULATIONS MAYBE AN ILLUSION

So ive learned a few things on steem                                                              in the short time here , minnows struggle to earn pennies and exposure , while those with the steem power , have an advantage and tend to support each other with upvotes and resteems , minnows are thrown a bone by bots and each other , seems a bit like life , those who have get more those that dont get less , the solution buy your steem , which will help the price on exchanges , 

but some cant afford to drop 500 or 1000 dollars into a crypto , so hope and dream of climbing the ladder by participation , but find even a well written article a set of good photographs will fall down the page into obscurity so fast , its like watching the titanic on fast forwards ,

so i realize the playing field has a slope , and all the minnows at one end clambering over each other , hoping for a pull up by the demi gods sat opposite , just a scap and we are so grateful 

but now a new element appears on the horizon , the demi gods may not give you a hand they may actually push you back , flexing their muscle and steem power , butting into a minnow gathering and laying down the law , despite their own self voting and insider cliques 

  • they can reprimand                                                                     a few minnows  up voting each other in a vain attempt to earn a cent , with a pronouncement that they have worked hard to establish the platform , read income , and voting " shit " posts denigrates the whole , this is of course highly subjective and against any notion of freedom of expression , and what business is of theirs to enter an on going discussion and call it shit , then to my cost i found my steem power stripped away and several of my posts flagged , nice  then as an added insult i was informed what i have done , i can undo , read im on a power trip, you will obey

is the block chain dream just a transfer of wealth and privilege from one group to another and are we about to learn the old maxim ,power corrupts works on all levels ,and like a fellow worker given a promotion to shift supervisor and an extra quid an hour , we will now learn the new boss is not your co worker ,friend or even equal they are your boss ,and you better get that message fast boyo

PS to the bigger fish whose flagging me , dont flag this 

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Great article

I'm not flagging this post, but I WILL bring this to the fore.

The abuse of one of the speakers at SteemFest next month was uncalled for and nasty.

Pull your head from your arse and sort yourself out.

Abuse

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ARE WE TOO SENSITIVE, YET VERY REVENGEFUL DARLING @michelle.gent?.. OR IT IS JUST MY WRONG IMPRESSION OF SOMEONE WHO CLAIMS NON AROGANCE, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, AND BOTTOM LINE OPPOSITE OF NASTY [I MISS THE WORD?..]

SO, YOU BRING ALL THESE ARGUMENTS AGAINST YOUNG DUDE [AT LEAST BY STEEMIT AGE..] WHO BY CHANCE OR PURE INTUITION OF LIGHT WARRIOR DISCOVERED THAT BOT'S ARE NASTY LITTLE SHITS THAT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN, AND BITE YOUR SOUL AWAY...

DID YOU CONSIDER YOU COMMENTARY ABOUT LUCK WHEN SOMEONE BRINGS THEIR OWN VIEWS, YOU AGREE OR NOT, RESPECT OF OTHER OPINIONS IS MANDATORY FOR CIVIL DISCUSION, YET TONE HOW YOU TREAT OTHER HUMAN BEING [HERE I REFER TO @TONYBONEY..] IS BOTTOM LINE ABUSE IN ITSELF... YET, IF YOU LOOK MY POSTS, I SWEAR AND BITCH ONLY ABOUT UNHUMANE BEHAVIOURS and NONHUMAN ENTITIES THAT LIVE IN THESE LINES OF CODES, HERE ON STEEMIT...

SO, HOW MUCH WE HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH ARROGANCE?.. WITH GREED?.. WITH SELF CENTEREDNESS?... YOU CAN ALWAYS BLAME IT ON RO'BOTS, AND ON ONE'S PARENTS FROM TIME TO TIME... BUT TRY TO KEEP IT DOWN WHEN YOU TALKING WITH STRAIT HUMAN AS @TONYBONEY IS...

PLEASE READ MY POSTS, OR BETTER HEAR MY VIDEOS, I WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO HEAR HONEST AND DIRECT COMENTARY FROM FELLOW WRITER, WHO IS HUMAN AS WELL..

SO STAY WELL, WATCH YOUR HEALTH, AND IF NEED ANY ASSISTANCE ALL YOU NEED IS TO ASK... OR VISIT: http://www.creationlightship.com/ RON HAS HEALINGS FOR EVERY SINGLE DISORDER... BLESSINGS... PSG..

He joined Steemit at the same time as I joined...

What's your point?

so if i have this right you feel your actions were justified by the fact i signed up a year ago ? but have only been posting for a few weeks , i was encouraged to try posting by jerry banfields enthusiasm on youtube , basically you are imposing YOUR rules on those your BOUGHT steem can punish , i was minding my own business being satirical and having a laugh when you crashed into my life , despite the fact i had never approached you on the cadge for up votes or following , and you imposed a character upon me that is as fictional as a character in one of your "books" , describing me as a knuckle dragging monobrow , who was out witted and taught a lesson by your BOUGHT steem , you are showing your self as the self righteous control freak you are , the whole notion of free speech is its free and if its shit as you put it it will just wither away with out your intervention , how many are there really working the platform with shit posts earning huge amounts yet you dont mention them , , because you are not clever enough to ,well ill tell what i think you are awful
and your a mean gossip and busybody

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Dude I am giving you a follow I think you are hilarious. My only advice would be to knock off the "I will upvote you if you upvote me" / upvote for upvote / follow for follow is the fast road to absolutely nowhere in the best case scenario, and the road to getting flagged down to oblivion the rest of the time.

Stick to writing hilarious things, upvote other people's posts if you like the post and the rest will come. Cheers and good luck. I am also going to introduce my friend @beelzebub to you.

thank you for your advice , and encouragement , some of the posts for free steem ect were more satire but i understand my sense of humour is not always understood , ;-)
cheers tony

Yeah I got that myself, and thought you were being pretty funny in the way you worded them, but Steemit is so clogged with people posting begs for upvotes / follows that I think your intention is likely to be lost on folks. BTW if you make what you consider to be a good post, feel free to drop the link in the comments here at my (tongue in cheek) "Free upvote and resteem service". I read any post linked there and will give you honest feedback (as well as my meager upvote if it is original material).

Cheers - Carl

thank you Carl thats very decent of you , nice to meet a real person ,
cheers tony

@carlgnash - Hi, Carl! It's me again. You found me wandering like a waif on @militarymemes and encouraged me to "introduce myself." Still haven't quite gotten around to that because exploring the Steemit forest is an indescribable through-the-looking-glass-and-down-the-rabbit-hole experience. There's a wonderful scene in the original Disney animated film as Alice begins her tumble and conveniently falls into a chair that is floating down the rabbit hole just below her. This allows her to sit back and enjoy her journey to the center of the earth. As I recall it, as soon as she feels a bit thirsty, she passes a pitcher of water and a glass on a table, reaches out and doesn't miss.

Well, just as I begin to ponder the problem of bot voting, I suddenly find myself in your part of the forest again. Voila! And when I open the door to peek inside this tree trunk, what do I see but The Mad Hatter (michelle.gent) and The March Hare (toneyboney) throwing china tea cups at each other. Weren't we just having that conversation when I was the naïve waif replying to your comment @militarymemes? Wasn't I so pleased to have left all of that behind at The YouTube Troll Center? But now, even here in the utopia of free-Steem-speech, it looks as if all the cups and saucers might be smashed before we can drink our tea.

Here's an interesting insight into the power of actual reputation over a Steem profile reputation. As michelle.gent and toneyboney continued their quarrel, I noticed that your response (at reputation 55) was more influential (with me) than that of michelle.gent (at reputation 73). Why? Well, partly because I did not know the two contenders but had already had a very positive encounter with you. Therefore your support for toneyboney won my support as well. Isn't that an interesting lesson in human behavior?

While I was living in Luddite-land (on the planet Lud, which I think may be my introduction eventually),
I dismissed social media platforms as inauthentic because human interaction requires eye contact, body language, the full engagement of the senses in full response to the presence, feelings, and behavior of another human being. Or so I thought. But the ferocious contention between michelle.gent and toneyboney is proving me wrong. In the absence of a physical presence, the heart, mind, and spirit are more clearly visible. And this is true regardless of proficiency in language, grammar, or writing skills.

There is a new user group for minnows that I have not yet decided to join because in reading the description of purpose, I sense in the "heart, mind, and spirit" of the group, an "energy" of the same authoritarian censorship and control that lies at the core of the conflict between michelle.gent and toneyboney. Which seems to suggest that the circular debate between free speech and censorship occurs at every "social level" and is in no way a class issue.

Yes, Carl, this self-guided tour through Steem-ville is very interesting, very interesting indeed. And now that I have written this "purely original content," please do with it as you see fit. I trust you. In fact, if you think this conversation may interest the "human" Steemit community, feel free to change names to protect the (innocent/guilty) and add artwork. Since you were my first Steemian friend, I consider you a mentor. Much love.

You are keeping me busy today! I love it! Fully agree that human interaction is completely possible in the absence of actual physical contact. I believe we have had several such interactions ourselves! I would love to hear more about Planet Lud, I have a lot of respect for Luddites although I am a hopeless tech head myself. RE this particular internet squabble, I want to mention that I don't necessarily condone some of @toneyboney's responses to @michelle.gent, but more importantly to me, I felt that they arose out of a reaction to an unjustified flagging and I can certainly understand this generating some anger. I personally try to never do anything in anger, preferring to wait until I cool down and re-evaluate, and at that point taking any necessary action in a spirit of calmness... but I don't hold other people to this code of conduct and realize that anger and angry reactions are a normal human thing.

RE this particular flag, I agree with the general principle of flagging posts/comments that are nothing but a beg for upvotes/follows/resteems without adding content... but I disagree that this applied to @toneyboney's post. He has a funny way with words and I found the flagged post amusing and to me it qualified as original content. I ran into Toney when he left a relevant and original reply to a song I posted, and I was curious why he had such a low rep when he was obviously capable of genuine human interaction.

RE a new user group for Minnows - I do not know which particular group you are referring to, but I would personally highly recommend the Minnow Support Project (MSP) and the associated PAL (Peace Abundance and Liberty) chat on Discord chat. If you are curious, @juliakponsford's illustrated step-by-step tutorial on joining MSP is great, although you really only have to follow the tutorial up to the point of registering your account with the MSP bots (the following Steemvoter steps are not necessary) and Julia is a peach as well (really terrific supporter and curator of the arts here on Steemit, check out her curation posts and contest posts if you have not already).

If you join MSP you gain access to an upvote service that you can use twice a day (once every 12 hours maximum) - you can use this to upvote other people's posts or your own, you use the upvote service by visiting the #upvote channel in PAL Discord chat (the invite to join the chat is one of the first steps of the tutorial) and (ONLY IN THE #UPVOTE CHANNEL) typing the command

$upvote POSTURL

Where "POSTURL" is the full URL of the post you are trying to upvote.

There is no hidden agenda in MSP - no requirements made of members, absolutely no wiff of censorship. As someone who is enjoying browsing around on Steemit but has very little Steem power yourself, joining this community would give you the ability to give a nice little upvote bump to deserving posts you encounter.

Cheers - Carl

You raise a lot of valid points here. I'm going to go have a look at your older post. I hate to think that the dolphins and 🐋 s here are that snooty but we all are after all still opinionated. I'm going to follow your upcoming post as well.

I hope this gets more eyes on it.

that's very good of you , i hope i don't cause any offence , i have a dry sense of humour and an irreverence that has served me well in educating me to the point of truther , silver stacker crypto nut oh and heretical Christian
cheers tony

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@TONYBONEY..

BRILLIANT DEPICTION OF CLASS OF ONCE CRACK POTS, BECOME A CENSOR JUDGES and POWER ABUSERS... USING A RO'BOTS TO CONTROL MASSES OF DISRESPECTFUL and NON OBEDIENT WRITERS...

HOW COME THAT USING BOTS JUSTIFY MEANS TO FLAG SOMEONE, AND IF YOU COMPLAIN, SAME BOT PUT YOU IN QUARANTINE, SO YOU BECOME INVISIBLE TO MOST...

AND.. AND IF YOU DARE TO SEND THIS CROWD OF PRINCE'S AND PRINCESSES A DIRECT MESSAGE, WITH WELL SUGGESTED @SOANDSOOFIMPOTRANCE , THEY WILL CLAIM IT IS A SPAM.. SO DARE TO COMPLAIN, DARE TO BRING EQUALITY AS IT WAS STATED IN THE WHITE PAPER [CAN ANYONE FIND RECENT ONE?... HEHE...] OF STEEMIT...

DOES ANYONE DARE TO STOP THIS SHIT OF BOTS THAT TOTALLY CONTROL AND CENSOR WHO CAN AND WILL BE UPVOTED, WITHOUT READING OR LISTENING, YET BRINGING ONE DOWN, EVEN BEFORE ONE CAN LIFT HIS ORGANIC HEAD FOR A BIT HIGHER ASPIRATIONS... LIKE MORE VOTES BASED ON CONTENT OR EFFORT PUTTING VIDEOS, PHOTOS AND REAL ARTICLES?...

WHO THE FUCK IS @CHEETAH THAT SAME SECOND I POST ANYTHING FLAGS MY SHIT AS PLAGIARISM AND SPAM... SO I HAVE TO BEG IT TO REMOVE ME FROM THE LIST?.. WTF?... I KNOW WHAT THIS LITTLE SHIT IS... IT WAS JUST RHETORICAL BOT JOKE..

DID WE FELL SO LOW AGAINST MACHINES, THAT WE HAVE NO HUMAN VOICE ANY LONGER?.. I STAND TALL WITH YOU DEAR @TONEYBONEY AND IF YOU LIKE TO JOIN US IN THE FIGHT AGAINST MACHINES AND CORUPTED HOMO-ROBOTICUS COME HERE: https://www.minds.com/groups/profile/741017851225186304/activity OR SEE ME AT DTUBE...

TO LET YOU KNOW, THIS IS NOT MY FIRST TAKE AGAINST DARK AI THAT CONTROLS MAJORITY OF OLD AND SOME VERY NEW PLATFORMS [GOO'GLE, FAKE'BOKS, EMPOWR, LINKEDIN, AND MY FAVORITE THEIR'TUBE... ] WHILE PRESENTLY WORKING ON TWITTER AND STEEMIT TO ATTEMPT TO REJUVENATE THE PLATFORMS, AND TO RETURN THEM TO RIGHTFUL OWNERS: CREATORS OF CONTENT, HUMAN VIEWERS..

BLESSINGS TO YOU, AND THANK YOU FOR COURAGE STATING TRUTHS SO OPENLY.. PSG...

thank you , and it good to know that the human spirit of defiance is strong and growing , stepping up , fuck the machine weather metal or flesh , im not a dog that can be trained with threats and treats
cheers tony

KEEP KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD.. OR IN TO THE SPACE... OR SIMPLY OUT OF THIS ONCE BEAUTIFUL WORLD... THANK YOU FOR BEING HUMAN... CIAO... PSG..

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