I've been banned from steemit's github
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This is the level of cooperation you should expect when trying to build on steemit if you happen to disagree with an aspect of the software, like its API.
A healthier response might be to ask what's wrong. Oh, by the way, here's my last interaction with anything steem-related on github:
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Somehow, I don't think that was deserving of a ban.
Here are my commits:
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My issues:
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but don't take my word for it!
As you can see I was quite the steem-booster back in the day. I wonder how someone goes from steem-booster to someone who totally loves the ideas behind the site, but cannot really stand to care about it?
Hm. Maybe it's the total hostility.
And yes, I did totally mistake the baroque security setup as a security bug. I should surely be tarred and feathered for that. But since I wasn't banned at that time, well, then-- why? I contribute to a number of open source projects and I've not been banned from any of their githubs. What, pray-tell, was so offensive about asking someone how they built an API?
PS: to steemit admins
The readme I wrote for condenser is out of date, and I can't update it.
back to work on fuz's site.
Update: Please go ahead and resteem/share/what have you.
I would love to read a comment from one of the developers to confirm whether this was done on purpose or whether there was some mistake.
It is really difficult to ban someone from a github repo by mistake. Here's what you need to do to make that happen:
Somehow, I don't think it was a mistake.
Not that I know much about using github, but that doesn't look like a ban, but a temporary glitch on github. Nothing suggests you did anything wrong, all the responses to your commits seem positive, at least by the screengrabs you chose to share.
Should look at my steemit posts.
Anyway-- I didn't do anything wrong on github. Nope, not a temporary issue. Has been like that for about a week. Just became a problem today because there were some questions I wanted to ask.
Here's my github profile:
github.com/faddat
Not having this problem ever, with any other repo I've contributed to.
But does it actually say "banned" anywhere? Maybe you could inquire github support what's going on?
Asking them now. Just for you.
You are doing it for yourself, not for me. ;) I guess you may benefit more if the issue will be resolved.
Oh, I'm asking for you. I'm rather sure of what I'll learn.
There's a small chance I am wrong though.
This is how bans work in social media. One is not told, one is simply banned. Probably they don't like my criticism of their API.
Yea I know, it happens, and github itself is notorious internally for being over sensitive to almost anything they find offensive. But I don't know if mere criticism of an API on a project is enough. Anyway, best to be sure and ask. :)
I don't mean that github banned me.
Steemtit banned me from their github.
No, the user-actions are confidential.
But yes, they've banned me.
That is weird.
Not really, unfortunately.
I haven't been able to make heads or tails of steemit's management since I started steeming. It's still and likely to remain my blog platform of choice. They just won't benefit from my criticism or code, is all.
Oh, and it seems that there's some difficulty processing markdown-formatted image links, too. Of course, it's not like I can do anything about that now.
This is outrageous. I lack words...
@ned, @sneak, @blocktrades surely this is a mistake and not a deliberate action, anybody have any reason as to why contributions from faddat aren't welcomed anymore and how that helps the team?
They think it helps steemit because they think that my commentary about steem's api could somehow damage the price of steem.....
When in fact, it's shit like blocking me from their github, and the generally unpredictable nature of management around here that will--mark my words-- sooner or later, harm steemit's reputation as a decentralized platform for free expression. Open source and the blockchains are (almost) inherently anti-exclusionary. But.... apparently not this blockchain.
Now, owing to no small fault of my own (see my past posts for what I mean) I've been misunderstood. This is an incredible platform, and for me, downright inspiring.
But that "censor" button just gets @sneak's clicking finger all itchy!
Misunderstanding or not, their/whoever-it was-that-banned-you action only created more confusion and then it was obviously the wrong way to go about it.
It comes down to the timeless truth of you reap what you sow I think, and in this case if someone didn't have a valid or good reason to ban you as they didn't express it probably because it wasn't warranted and so then voicing such a reason will of course cause you and others to call it out, they will undoubtedly reap that repercussion.
Nevermind, We R the change we wanna C in this world! https://steemit.com/editor/@technocomanche/flagged-for-being-overrewarded-at-0-00-rewards-inertia
I don't agree with the flags because it's nothing flag worthy but I want to expound on your post.
Why aren't all votes worth the same.
It's about the incentive of holding SP and therefore not devaluing liquid steem and in turn bringing the price down to the bottom, into the ground.
Next, if everyone has the same influence then the sibyl attacks are going to be a very real problem as it takes no effort to create a swarm of accounts and use them to bring down the community.
The postponing of the flatter reward curve from HF 17 is not well received and the experiment ran by @abit and @smooth is a direct result of that, and having achieved the goals set out of diminishing whale reward distribution from the reward pool and also empowering everyone else by a substantial factor, some have said 8x more voting influence as a result and I too have seen this. At first I was not aware of exactly what the experiment was and next was perturbed seeing smooth upvote his own auto-comments by 1 cent but having understood that it was about removing whale influence over the distribution of rewards and seeing that the comment voting was what I believe a natural and deserved consequence of @htooms flagging smooth's comments I have since come to praise abit and smooth for what is ultimately a self sacrifice and a truly laudable effort of magnitudes that I don't believe this community has had the opportunity of experiencing yet.
So in closing, don't falter and give those flags too much worry, they haven't done it maliciously but probably out of sheer lackluster to break down the problems with your solution and assuming that you had already known about those issues that your solution will undoubtebly bring if adapted.
This post is definitely one of the most interesting ones I have seen in a long time. 79 views and only 1 vote which is a flag of @fyrstikken, which I don't agree on either! Upvoted IT. This topic needs a real discussion IMHO.
Maybe try to Post IT as a New Post #steemit #discussion #thebenefitsofequalvotepower
Seems you are getting swarmed by flags, why is that? Go to chat though because you are awfully close to being nuked and commenting will invite them to finish you off.
No Matter if Above Or Underground, Truth will allways Prevail!
But thanx 4 caring! ;)
Not necessarily, there have been numerous instances in history where a new language was developed simply to hide the truth, and truth died in obscurity, other times book burning erased entire treasure troves of knowledge, and then truth burned at the stake to the cheers of the crowd sometimes.
The idiom of truth will always prevail is not correct. The Buddha is attested to saying that three things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon and the truth of the noble eight fold path. Truth though is far greater than the truth of dukkha and I think he chose his words carefully with that, as lies obscure truth, and living in today's age we can feel the effects of propaganda all around us, truth not so much.
What I want to say is this:
I see you have made enemies of the people that basically keep trolls and plagiarists and spammers at bay. If your objective is to troll, to spam or to copupastu then you won't find much motivation doing those things here. If you are advocating truth, you must align with it first and I have to point out something:
This isn't facebook, this isn't twitter, this isn't linkedin, this isn't instagram, this isn't youtube. Going to each of those websites you can see the vitriol that is alive and well in the communities that seek to uncover the numerous conspiracies that are perpetrated against the public, because infiltrators are free to reign from the top down. This isn't fakebook, this isn't snarltube, this isn't mockedin, this isn't your typical website period for the matter of fact.
There is no admins. Let me repeat that once more. There are no figures that act as all powerful arbiters or ultimate deciders. This is not the internet like many know it. To equate this to the internet would be akin to saying the flea market is a glitzy mall. They are two different things, entirely, granted they both deal with goods and services of the same comparable nature, the method that they are implemented in is vastly different.
I want to give you two bits of advice in steem, if you're open, generally the golden rule is the utmost principle you should ascribe to, generally, as there are always exceptions. Next, whatever your convictions might be, you get what you sow. If you sow discord and negativity, intolerance and ill will, don't expect anything else to sprout out as they all bear the fruits of those seeds.
Truth is all encompassing, and not necessarily resilient or evident which nullifies it substantially, but things like the virtues of honesty, compassion, meekness and humility, and the courage to stand up for what is right and therefore against what is wrong and the love of truth are infallible in their scope and they cannot be obscured and are always self evident. Those are the tools of building and protecting ones mind, they are timeless and won't ever be driven to obscurity. Heed this quote:
Physicians heal thyself first!