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RE: OPEN LETTER TO STEEMIT INC., THE WITNESSES, AND THE WHALES

in #abuse7 years ago

My recollection is that Steemit is touted as 'censorship-resistant', rather than immune to it.

Ultimately, I completely agree regarding @sneak.

This is exactly why appealing to devs and whales to fix the problem is like asking a firing squad to set you free. @sneak is a senior dev, and Stinc serves the whales as the vast majority of Steem is in their hands, and thus Stinc is dependent on them for it's profitability.

You and I have also been graced by flags from @blacklist-a as a result of @sneak invoking it on us with his flags. This is a mechanism that prevents an army of upvoting bots from doling out rewards, which is a means of encouraging accounts 'approved' by @sneak and his cohort. If it's any consolation, @ned and @dan are both also blacklisted =p

I also note that @dan left because of the issue, I think (it's what I've heard from them as claim to know), and I like his proposal to counter stake, rather than limit such interactions to votes on posts and comments. @bloom (who describes himself as a 'professional flagger'), for example posts but little, hardly even comments, leaving a tiny window for his victims to fight back. Since he is funded offchain, he isn't dependent on upvotes to be able to fly his flags here. As an aside, @bloom should alarm folks interested in free speech, as he exemplifies a mechanism whereby hostile parties can suppress Steemers from without, for whatever purposes they choose.

Folks don't need to open an account on Steemit to promulgate their views, or suppress voices they don't like. They can just fund @bloom to censor for them, and if he doesn't post, there's no way to fight back directly. The hospitality industry probably funds @sweetsssj in a complementary advertising initiative (just my private speculation, but a valid potential mechanism that may well be far more widely undertaken on Steemit than we might suspect, as propagandists are going to seek influence here, just as they have flooded 4chan, Twatter, and ZeroHedge).

Being able to counter stake instead of flags would neutralize the ability to censor, prevent flags from crushing rep, as has been done repeatedly to @skeptic, as @dan did to @berniesanders himself, and more recently @sneak has done to @iamstan, and also enable folks to counter abusive whales without being drawn into flagwars.

I haven't seen the post you linked, but will have a look at it now.

Thanks!

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That's interesting, I didn't know that dan left because of that issue. You got a link that demonstrates that?

I've been told that during my rounds commenting. I'm sure a devoted search with a staff of data analysts could find it in my comments in only a couple weeks.

I doubt also that just one issue was the cause. Also, no one gave me a link that I recall. I'ts definitely hearsay.

Interesting hearsay nonetheless!