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RE: Nobody Reads for Free, The Upvote Problem, Plus, my Most Embarrassing Childhood Moment!
Excellent written article @steemgobling. You are a good storyteller . And coming from a fellow storyteller like myself, I really appreciate that :)
And I totally agree. I cannot understand for the life of me some of the schemes here where organized groups go through a whole Tag and just blindly Upvote everything.( #vincentb is one that comes to mind)
We need to strongly discourage this. Thanks again for the entertaining Post :)
Don't waste your time discouraging anything. Encourage good behavior.
That sounds nice in a fairytale dream. But it's just not reality. Sometimes you have NO choice but to put the brakes on abusers. And then use that example to let others know this is not the path to take .... a.k.a being Discouraging .
Actually Discouraging can be more productive that JUST Encouraging good behavior.
When all you do is JUST encourage good behavior you tend to minimize the damage the abusers are doing.
So you need to address the problem, voice your concerns, rectify it, and Discourage others from doing it. And finally Encourage them to do the right thing.
Pretty simple process, actually :)
We're not talking about people being beaten. There aren't even any "rules" being broken. No one is being coerced into it. So, no, I don't think much discouragement is required. It just brings a lot of negative attention. If what you mean by "discourage" is put up a post calling it out, okay, but what I've seen is downflagging campaigns, which waste voting power that could be used to support better content, with the same effect. And , so you know, that came across as horribly condescending.
Yep, that is exactly what I meant as well discussing it in Comments section.
I don't use the Flagging thing. So I am not talking about that at all
Uhmm.. Writing a Comment congratulating you,complementing you ,and agreeing with you and telling thanks for your post ( as I did) ... only met with this response from you
...could be construed as "condescending" as well ( not horrible though let's don't be a drama queen ;)
People here at Steemit should have a little more humility and graciousness. Not asking for an Upvote or anything but just a simple ' Thanks'. But hey whatever floats your boat. I ain't your mother lol
You know that saying "Do unto other as you want them to do unto you" :)