Steemit Disturbing 'Trends': Child Pornography or Art (as a community, we will show our true colors)?
So bots are now not only promoting content containing what could be interpreted as child pornography by upvoting and commenting on it yet by also resteeming it ?!!? Is this the direction we would really like to see #steemit take? No warning from anything in the steemit system for the lack of a 'nsfw' tag, no indication that naked children as art is a slippery slope... just support and promotion of said content.
I get some might find the post more humorous than arousing, and yet I don't think it can be denied there are some sick people in the world who would find such things sexually pleasing. I also understand that just because something in my own home country would be considered illegal if found in my possession (and that I would end up in a prison with a line of "Bubbas" outside of my cell, just waiting to get a piece of the pedo-pervert) does not mean that other countries and cultures treat it the same.
Yet I can't help but think about the reasoning behind a steemit bot (or anyone here, for that matter - especially without the 'not safe for work' tag) or algorithm finding such content pleasing enough for a triple affect (upvoted, positively commented on, and resteemed) promotion.
I see "them (bots & whales)" favoring repeat content, I see them ignoring real original content, and now this ?!!?
Give me a break! If we wanted smut and potentially illegal content we all have the rest of the world wide spiderweb to find ourselves caught up in such questionable things.
Let us not allow it to take over (and PROFIT from) here as well.
Just my 2 cents worth. I did not flag it, that is a coward's way to express themselves. Instead I chose to comment my opinion on the post itself, and invite anyone reading this to do the same. Then the cards will fall where they may, and if the community ignores it (or worse, continues to support it) it will be clear that I am the one who does not belong here.
Thank You for your time.
I have never seen such a disgusting post...thank you for mentioning it. I flagged it. I think it's the first downvote I have made in over 8 months.
I told the FBI about it.... but you know, pizzapizzasomethingorother.
Thank You for helping to do something about it as well (after 2 days of contemplation and saying I wouldn't flag it.... I flagged it).