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RE: No Vote Lists, Brute-Force Flagging & DownVoting: Gagging Kills Meritocracy
gave upvote, great post.
we all need to come together, our numbers have way more power then some stupid whales. maby set up a walk out for 2 days if we could get enough people to join. let the whales see what happens when they abuse their power to much and how steemit will die if all the minnows leave. they seem to think their steem power comes even close to the power of the actual users in mass. we control this site not them.
Thanks, much appreciated.
You are right, these are dangerous days - yourself and @officialfuzzy below as well - this maturing period, before sufficient diffusion of power, where people's hearts will either be filled with a zealot's love for the thing, or they walk away feeling outcast and hateful. Philosophical / Spiritual Leadership is helpful in the formation period - not just "sink or swim baby!" .. The greatest tool one can have in building this thing up, is STEEM Power - if used as an architect and artist, or it can be used to destroy if wielded (or withheld) as a territorial street thug.
Anyway, we hope everyone finds their better nature, in these days ahead, and that very much includes myself! I have sometimes behaved like a right ahole. :-)
behaving like an asshole is your right imo. censoring others is not.
i support you acting like an ass if you choose to. xD
everyone keeps telling me that freedom of speech does not mean freedom of conaquences. i accept that. i say bring on the concequences as long as they aren't censorship. call me an asshole, point out where im wrong, cuss me out. i love it. the second you try to stop me from saying or thinking something is when their is a problem. i will support anyone and everyone even if i disagree with them when it comes to free speech.
the right to free speech is the right to offend. #istandwithhatespeech
we the minnows with our numbers have the power on steemit, not the minority of whales. we leave the whales die. simple as that. i think they are to arrogant to realize it right now though. it would be best for them to try to help out and fix the problem if they want to actually make money off their investment.
if at worse just go to sealion.club it is real free speech. only rule is no child porn.
we have a mute button on steemit but for some reason people forgot about it and feel they have the duty to police people based on their own opinions. actions like that will kill steemit before it gets out of beta. the word is already getting around about this site and truth is it does not have a good review by the people that have tried it and left the same day. it is a lot of people that are never going to join because of it and alot are quitting fast because of it.
truth is im just here to watch it burn to the ground. i honestly don't have faith in the community anymore. their are a lot of people that care and i respect them for it but the majority o the users are not only happy flagging people out of opinion they are actually proud of it.
i cnt even count how many times i have heard someone say "this is not what we want steemit to become" like the one person that disagrees with something just thinks everyone agrees like a hive mind machine. normalcy bias is strong with a lot of steemit users.
sorry bout the long reply.
Remember that front ends can be built that completely redo the reputations system. Or front end versions that get rid of flagging. These things are possible. I am just hoping some of my ideas can be built to help prove it to others. I thik you will see content creation guilds that upvote one another as well as allies eith their guilds. Some will require a minimum of sp, others will not bu what will happen is that guilds of strong content creators will support one another and weed out those who cannot keep the guild brand strong.
Then i think you will also see people making their own websites have steemit as the backend. And these content creators running the website will ask for upvotes and come up with new incentives for people to upvote them instead of donating to and buying from them
yeah, I post links to steemit on other sites so most the people that see my stuff cant upvote it anyways. lol