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RE: Russia Today News Now Posting Content On The Steem Blockchain.
Almost as bad as Faux News. Why they attack Del Bigtree? RT just pushing the narrative.
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Almost as bad as Faux News. Why they attack Del Bigtree? RT just pushing the narrative.
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That is why the Steem blockchain is so good. It does not matter what our personal agenda is.
It still does matter because someone speaking truth that is disagreeable will still be blackholed. There are bots that act erroneously claiming plagiarism upon a person's own content. I fear that without a broader base of people this DPOS is not as decentralized as is claimed.
The rep number holds no meaning.
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You're both right and wrong. I have seen accounts flagged into the dust and rise again, repeatedly, despite ongoing enmity from a whale suffering from entitlement complex. It proved to me that it is practically impossible to be flagged into a black hole.
However, the recent censorship of accounts under the control of FTG is a mechanism that can blackhole accounts. While the spam FTG inflicted on the blockchain, UX's and bloggers was intolerable, the cure, IMHO, is far worse than the disease. The blockchain itself is not censored, however, and even though Steemit and Steempeak (and perhaps other UIs) do censor them, the actual information is stored on the blockchain.
Even if hostile censoring corporations or governments gain control of UIs and seek to suppress certain information, Steem will enable folks that want it to get it. This is a novel and remarkable feature of the blockchain, and it is also worth noting that Steem never claimed to be censorship proof, merely resistant.
Actual complete black holing can be done, but it would take a HF to do it. There would be some significant resistance from witnesses that could only be overcome with money (buy enough Steem, and like @pumpkin or @freedom, you can choose who the witnesses are).
This is exactly why Steem and DPOS is not as decentralized as people think it is. Absent changes, the trend presently is that decentralization is growing. Significant inflows of capital (for Steem) would be necessary to change that, or there are other mechanisms that could compromise individual witnesses or whales that would be less apparent while being undertaken. Nothing is guaranteed, after all, but Steem is remarkably censorship resistant relative to historical mechanisms, or present venues.
You're right about rep. Plenty of folks just bought it. I reckon that's why UA was created. While Steemit and other UIs presently use rep, there's nothing that says other UIs need to, and not use UA instead. I expect that soon there will be UIs that use UA instead of rep, and that will be a good thing.
I went and tried Minds and MeWe, and nothing compares to here. Maybe one day there will be something better. For now though this place combined with GINAbot make it easy for me to find the content I want to read and the people I want to interact with very easy.
The flagging system is definitely not perfect, but I prefer it over the disgusting things Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms have been doing at least. At least here I am not talking to myself when I post. Google was suppressing all of my liberty related content.
My friends there were just talking to ourselves even though the posts were public.
Heck, I cannot even talk freely on Facebook, or I risk jail or ban. It is easy for people like us to be banned there. I despise the place and look forward to it going the way of Myspace.
The reputation system does bother me a little, but I don't mind my slow growing reputation. All it really affects for me is being put lower down the list of replies, and I'll self vote to get past the bots and scammers as necessary.
Apparently the whales here have no interest in my expertise, but a few people like @hilarski, @canadian-coconut, and @grow-pro have helped me a ton to get started and grow.
Like I believe Hilarski said, this place is a bit of a popularity contest. If you're not popular with the "in crowd," your reputation won't shoot up real quickly without some serious bot abuse. :)