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RE: Too Much Fluff: flagging and Steemit - What does the community think about my flagging habits?
Do it !
there is no right or wrong, good or bad content, until curators evaluate it.
but keep in mind. flagging has a massiv impact.
You are aiming at very sensitive parameters.
As things will turn emotional, it will be a big task for steemit as a platform to define the feature of flagging in the best interest.
This account (mostly) stays away from flagging for now.
this will change at some point.
For now, the amount of upvotes is already an easy and good parameter to
classify the quality of content.
I would argue that flagging has the same impact as regular upvoting. Sure, every vote we make on this platform is messing with "sensitive parameters".
That said, I agree upvotes are a good metric of quality content. The issues I'm having center around "fluff" content earning large rewards. Even if by principle, I will continue flagging.
as i said. do it.
there is nothing wrong with flagging and it is even better to honestly discuss your intentions !
the difference between upvote and downvote is the like difference between
praise and punishment.
They don't have the same impact even if they seem to be opponents.
You can't measure occurring emotional reactions this way.
So you felt the desire to justify and discuss your flagging habits.
Praising is easy and very understandable, while punishment mostly triggers some emotional and confusing mechanisms.
I would actually argue that praise is the same as punishment. Even if they are "pointed in opposite directions". I have to say I am going to ignore emotions, money is on the table now.
if you look at it from a rational persperctive, they are.
You can understand them as binary possibilities.
But you will see the outcome is not binary explainable.
humans mostly don't react objectively.
Valid points. You can think of my outlook as indifferent to the individual outcomes. The human outcomes are mostly non-important, at least as long as they are not bringing the value of the community down.