Who are @blacklist and @blacklist-a? And why they're flagging my posts?
Since two days ago I've been receiving flags from @blacklist, @blacklist-a and also this user @johnthehoan. The reason? I have no clue.
Since these users started flagging me I noticed a lot of users stopped auto-voting my posts. Actually, that's what @blacklist-a says in its account information:
There's no explanation why I ended up in a blacklist. What did I do? I'm worry that my rewards and reputation get affected negatively because of this. That's the LEAST I want right now, seriously.
So, how do I get out of this blacklist?
According to this pastebin, @blacklist has to review my account to see if I qualify to be removed from the list. But that will happen only if I send 40 STEEM to that account, with no guarantee that this will be the case.
Of course I won't do such thing because this is unfair and I didn't do anything wrong to be blacklisted in the first place.
I'm not alone
I've been reading reports from some renowned users experiencing the same situation. Unlike the controversial @asshole who was flagging every single post on Steemit, @blacklist flags not just plagiarists, but also "certain" users. You can check the pattern of his flags here. It's a short list and I have no clue why I'm in.
Speculations
I'm not really sure why the name of @fyrstikken highlights when it comes to the @blacklist account, but I hope this is not the case. I respect this guy, I voted for him as a witness and I'm following him. Why he would've added my account to a blacklist? I'm not alleging anything, I'm just looking for answers.
Flags without my consent
Today @beanz reached me at steemit.chat and asked me why I was flagging some posts and her comments. I didn't know what she was talking about, I wasn't aware of that. But yeah, there were a couple of flags to both @sirlunchthehost and @beanz. Those flags were performed without my consent. I was following 5 trails on Streemian: xeroc, ats-david, curie, instructor2121 and anyx. Seems like one of them was the responsible of this misunderstanding.
I hope I wasn't blacklisted because of this. But now I've decided to go manual definitely. I revoked post permission to Streemian and I want to ask @fyrstikken to remove me from his upvote guild. Don't take it personally please, I think going manual is the best right now.
I'm not here to support a side or another. I'm here just to have a great time with the whole community and be part of a bright future!
I really hope things here get better soon with the next hardfork and all the drama about flag wars and disagreements get to an end once and for all. Right now, Steemit is helping me A LOT to survive in the real world and this situation with @blacklist is affecting me so bad because it's preventing other users from support my posts and that's ruining my experience here.
I'll appreciate any suggestion and I hope you can help me find a solution to this situation.
Since I am mentioned in this post
Why are you on the blacklist... I don´t know, but my guess is that you or someone who controls your posting-key has abused your posting key to target people and flagging them on your behalf. Do you belong to a so called "guild" except for the Winfrey Guild, or do you vote all this over-voting by yourself?
Your Voting-Power is far down the red-zone.
As I said, I was following 5 trails on Streemian and at the same time your upvote guild, the winfrey. All that over-voting wasn't done by myself.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe most of those upvotes were performed by your upvote guild, they all are at 1%, in Streemian I was using 100%.
I've already changed my password to avoid future problems.
Good idea, it will take you a few days to recover. 5 trails must be a bit much with 100% but the worst part that they have used your power to downvote users, and by doing so caused you problems. @beanz may investigating this case as @surpassinggoogle also has a similar story and I bet there are others as well.
I'm not doing any investigating I already know @ass-david is responsible as others I notified were only following his trail.
Some of these bots are fucking retarded and way worse than Facebook. It's really fucking up the enjoyment on here for some members because whoever runs this bot is fucking biased.
How fucking stupid this bullshit is getting, @blacklist-a, fucking ridiculous. Because of this fucking steemit cop, I lost some earnings because he decided to be biased and is fucking with me.
Change your posting key https://steemit.com/@revostrike/permissions. This is actually old news. Don't worry about getting flagged by him. I hope the flagging will stop soon.
Thanks for bringing attention to the trail abuse. I agree, keeping your keys and voting manually seems like the best thing for everyone.
If you joined my trail on Streemian, then you'll need to opt-out of any voting that you don't want to follow, such as comments or flags. There are settings that you can adjust for any trail that you follow.
The flags that were given out by me were for trolling and personal attacks, in case you were wondering. Some people are calling my flagging "abuse." But I see the repeated trolling and personal attacks of me as actual abuse. If they don't want to receive flags, they can simply stop the trolling and attacking. If you don't want to follow the flags on my trail, please opt out of that on Streemian.com.
As far as "blacklist" is concerned - keep in mind that this is an attempted extortion scheme and the people commenting here and trying to cast themselves as your friends and helpers are actually the ones who support it. Please don't be fooled by their crusade against me. If you'd like more info about any of this, please contact me on Steemit.chat: ats.david