I just checked out his blog. I can certainly say this about @dots - whoever they are, they're certainly dedicated to their posting genre. Yeah, it's not great content, but now I'm curious to see how long it'll go on.
Do you consider it to be quality content? A legitimate contribution? Personally it made me laugh, but these are the things that make it harder for serious people to get exposure on genuine content. I hope that makes sense.
I am sorry I must disappoint you: it doesn't make any sense at all. Whether I judge something quality content or not is meaningless in this context.
I just went back and upvoted each and every post @dots dotted in #dots on principle, because @dots should be free to dot dots every day in #dots. And I clicked on follow too, because I want to upvote every dot @dots dots in #dots from now on and until all eternity.
It is not abusive, it doesn't slander, doesn't speak lies, doesn't steal content, doesn't insult and doesn't dot dots in #food or #photography. @dots is filling #dots with dots just as others are filling #introduceyourself with cleavage, which I don't downvote either just because I don't consider it "quality content", and @dots should have every right to do so without harrassment.
The problem is the interface that forces everyone to browse by /new and doesn't allow to filter and to block #dots, for example.
I beg to differ. Could they be performing a social expirement? Sure. But what's to say that a spam link isn't doing the same? Or, someone who can barely put a sentence together making posts that are horrible uncomfortable to read, but they're really trying...? There's a fine line there..
Dots has never made a comment on anyone else's content. Are they free to do so? I suppose, but with that level of uselessness, from a contributory perspective, I downvote it. It totally lacks any effort at all. With that mentality, we better leave a post of a single photo of a cat, whose post title is 'Cat'... I mean, with all due respect here, come on. Steem is in Beta. Wouldn't you prefer to attempt to set a standard for expectations BEFORE there's 20 million people on here with zero understand of things and the feeds are full of spam and posts consisting of dots without explanation?
We have to get realistic somewhere and I think that things such as dots should be downvoted without question. It's a matter of the platform, not PC ethics of things.. And even from an ethical perspective, dots may do no harm but it holds ZERO value whatsoever to any person and to the overall platform.
Here I have one guy jealous because someone is making money with stock photos, and here's you worried about hurting the feelings and/or the morality of downvoting posts containing ZERO effort whatsoever.
"I would like to welcome the 20 million people you speak of to a place of freedom and experiment, not to an authoritarian, ochlocratic system of fear and oppression teeming with thought police."
As if I'm the thought police. My only goal was to help clean up the platform in an effective way. It has nothing to do with censorship so you can save that illustrious idea for someone else.. Maybe we need to see what some of the whales and real thinkers have to say about the validity of the idea.. I'd be curious to know.
Regardless, I believe you make a "valid-enough" point that I believe I should think twice about the dots thing, and focus only on spam and plagiarism. Thanks for your input and for helping me come to this conclusion.
I have an exciting new submission, a user who's sole purpose is to constantly harass, threaten and annoy. Current profile is @feminism. Now he wants to play with @pierce-the-veil. I'm happy to oblige and have already established an energetic contract which I am satisfied will play out after this life.
Time to get the posse together! Lets banhammer this little shit out of existence and move on to more important matters.
Ciao!
I already have friends looking into his ip address to find out just where this rat lives. With a little luck, he'll get a little visit his way from feds soon.
I just checked out his blog. I can certainly say this about @dots - whoever they are, they're certainly dedicated to their posting genre. Yeah, it's not great content, but now I'm curious to see how long it'll go on.
Do you consider it to be quality content? A legitimate contribution? Personally it made me laugh, but these are the things that make it harder for serious people to get exposure on genuine content. I hope that makes sense.
I am sorry I must disappoint you: it doesn't make any sense at all. Whether I judge something quality content or not is meaningless in this context.
I just went back and upvoted each and every post @dots dotted in #dots on principle, because @dots should be free to dot dots every day in #dots. And I clicked on follow too, because I want to upvote every dot @dots dots in #dots from now on and until all eternity.
It is not abusive, it doesn't slander, doesn't speak lies, doesn't steal content, doesn't insult and doesn't dot dots in #food or #photography. @dots is filling #dots with dots just as others are filling #introduceyourself with cleavage, which I don't downvote either just because I don't consider it "quality content", and @dots should have every right to do so without harrassment.
The problem is the interface that forces everyone to browse by /new and doesn't allow to filter and to block #dots, for example.
But @dots has done no harm dotting dots in #dots.
I beg to differ. Could they be performing a social expirement? Sure. But what's to say that a spam link isn't doing the same? Or, someone who can barely put a sentence together making posts that are horrible uncomfortable to read, but they're really trying...? There's a fine line there..
Dots has never made a comment on anyone else's content. Are they free to do so? I suppose, but with that level of uselessness, from a contributory perspective, I downvote it. It totally lacks any effort at all. With that mentality, we better leave a post of a single photo of a cat, whose post title is 'Cat'... I mean, with all due respect here, come on. Steem is in Beta. Wouldn't you prefer to attempt to set a standard for expectations BEFORE there's 20 million people on here with zero understand of things and the feeds are full of spam and posts consisting of dots without explanation?
We have to get realistic somewhere and I think that things such as dots should be downvoted without question. It's a matter of the platform, not PC ethics of things.. And even from an ethical perspective, dots may do no harm but it holds ZERO value whatsoever to any person and to the overall platform.
Here I have one guy jealous because someone is making money with stock photos, and here's you worried about hurting the feelings and/or the morality of downvoting posts containing ZERO effort whatsoever.
As if I'm the thought police. My only goal was to help clean up the platform in an effective way. It has nothing to do with censorship so you can save that illustrious idea for someone else.. Maybe we need to see what some of the whales and real thinkers have to say about the validity of the idea.. I'd be curious to know.
Regardless, I believe you make a "valid-enough" point that I believe I should think twice about the dots thing, and focus only on spam and plagiarism. Thanks for your input and for helping me come to this conclusion.
@pierce-the-veil: Hello @xvickx, it's time for another daily down-vote posthaste. :P
I have an exciting new submission, a user who's sole purpose is to constantly harass, threaten and annoy. Current profile is @feminism. Now he wants to play with @pierce-the-veil. I'm happy to oblige and have already established an energetic contract which I am satisfied will play out after this life.
Time to get the posse together! Lets banhammer this little shit out of existence and move on to more important matters.
Ciao!
I already have friends looking into his ip address to find out just where this rat lives. With a little luck, he'll get a little visit his way from feds soon.