Use the flags and defend your posts
I noticed that many newer users avoid flagging.
The most of them consider flagging as something that bad people do, but it's not like that. Flags are here, available to all of us to use, only a few clicks stand between you and someone getting flagged by you. It is our responsibility to keep this platform friendly and positive, we have a few different tools for that. A flag is one of them. Now, I don't say that you should watch for every detail and flag people around the whole day and enjoy it. I don't even say that you should waste your voting power on 100% flags. Flags are not here to harm someone, there are here to warn the others and help them. The most of us can do nothing harmful by flagging someone, those flags are more symbolic and you can just place the flag to show that you noticed something inappropriate and rude, or people who abuse tags and those who get more rewards than they deserve. Let's say few things about reasons for flagging.
When you're about to flag someone, this is the message that you will get:
Flagging a post can remove rewards and make this material less visible. Some common reasons to flag>
Disagreement on rewards
Fraud or Plagiarism
Hate Speech or Internet Trolling
Intentional miss-categorized content or Spam
Disagreement on rewards
This is a kinda personal reason, depends on your opinion, there is no general opinion for what is good content and what is bad content. Flagging someone because of that won't get you anywhere. You won't harm the user, you won't EDUCATE the user by your flag. So avoid to flag people because of this reason, you won't achieve anything with that, you can only make people give revenge flags to you.
Fraud or Plagiarism
Do not hesitate to flag someone when you are sure that you found a plagiarised or a false content. It's your duty to protect the community.
Hate Speech or Internet Trolling
The same as a category before, please flag hate speech when you find it! Worn the community on bad behavior, it's also one of your duties here.
Intentional miss-categorized content or Spam
And finally, the most common flagging reason for me. I hate phishing comments in which shameless people invite me to visit their blog and to upvote them, especially if I noticed that they praise my content but they are very lazy to give an upvote. So I will defend my post from this kind of things, but I will not dare to defend and your post, that's up to you. This category covers and tag abuse. This is a special problem on this platform, you will see that if you open newly generated posts under #steemit tag. Then you see that those posts say nothing about Steemit. Those posts also deserve flags, but this kind of flags will not have any effects. You can flag as much as you want, but people will still use #steemit tag for photos, stories, and pieces of information that have nothing with Steemit.
That's my attitude about flagging, hope that you can see my reasons clearly! Flags are not bad! Use them to defend your own post!
Thank you!!!
I dont see it as a bad thing. We have more spammers here than active users thse days. We need to work together and clean this platform.
My account was stolen two weeks ago which made me notice Hackers as well. Now I am trying my best to hunt both of them and report them to @steemcleaners
I dont flag people for fun or reward, but spammers deserve it.
Yes! That’s the attitude!
I'd love to see more flags given out (for the reasons you listed)! However, I think the main problem is that flags are often seen as a personal attack. This leads to things like "I flag you because you flagged me". Even if the initial flag is based on the reasons you listed above, the counter action often is not. This leads to a culture of flagging only those who can't harm yourself - which is not really what it should be...
I saw many cases you talk about. I saw a David vs Goliat duel where a weaker user flagged a stronger one because of justified reasons, but with those revenge flags, that didn’t end well
That is what I feared, tit for tat flagging. Where smaller guy gets screwed, even thou he is in the right.
I do not flag often but if I see outright hateful or abusive content or comments I will
Plagiarism I generally give a warning to initially but will flag if I see it repeatedly done
It’s about us defending the network. 90% of my flags are educational with 10% of voting power
That’s a good way to do it
Thanks for such post but i don't think @flagging can help someone, only hate speech should be #flagged only everyone make really some hard work to create a post so i don't think flagging is helpful or useful at any cost
So you wouldn’t flag plagiarism? You wouldn’t warn others on copied content, and you probably support those with phishing comments
SWEAR plagiarism Should be flagged but miner plagiarism is common, my dear friend and please don't take it Personal
Thank you for expressing your opinion;)
plagiarism is plagiarism and needs to be challenged. period full stop
I agree fully with you..
It is great weapon, without it the platform will become the biggest recycle bin..
But the sad thing, some of us used it un correctly and selectively..
Thank you my friend. The more new users, the more educational flags are needed
some of us used it un correctly and selectively. this is the main point which harm the power of system
I really hesitate to flag. Maybe a constructive comment instead? I also fear retaliation. I do try hard for my SBDs so I am scared if someone would go and flag my post back to retaliate so I stay away from that.
If you see something wrong and cant flag it, at least report it to @steemcleaners
You can do that anonymously and help the platform :)
Never heard of that before. Thank you! I luckily don't come across things I would feel a need to flag really often.
You will notice them in the future :)
Thanks for the education on flagging. I avoided it for fear of retribution. I see now how you can use it as an education tool.
Yes I agree. I dont use them too often, but I have and will use it when the offence warrants it.