- I explained clearly why.
You can read between the lines or better yet read below. - There are a myriad of simple ways to prove it.
If you can learn Markdown and post here, you can do that too. - Don't get absurd and use fallacious hyperbolic arguments like ID cards and such.
Nobody needs or cares about that level of detail. - Don't pull the internet stalker non factor either. Nobody is going to be stalking anyone unless its one of you otaku.
Nobody is bullying anyone. 14 is not a young girl. No need to talk down to her like she's a child. She is a teen and clearly has been on the internet long enough to know how to handle a situation like this, or better yet? She can ask her parents to get involved with this and share Steemit.com with them and have them come here share their stories and make some money.
Imagine your daughter comes to you and says "Hey Mom and Dad! I just made $5000 dollars on the internet!" or if she starts buying expensive items without telling you where she got the money from. At 14, ideally, I think many parents would like to know if their child is doing something of this nature. It's a far cry from going to an anime forum and talking about One Piece and Fate Stay Night and coming on a site similar to Reddit, giving out your birth date, talking about yourself and getting thousands of dollars for it from strangers, don't you think?
Stop being so naive and overprotective of this person. We are all on the internet and know that this sort of catfish situation is not uncommon.
All of you that think @meiisheree is a 14 year old little girl are free to guess that is true. I see no proof of that and see this sort of thing as a bad influence on Steemit.com. If I was unscrupulous I have access to someone's pictures when they were about 14 and could write an elaborate story that could garner an easy $5000 and the gullible ones here would not feel comfortable checking up on the story because they didn't want to offend "me", or disturb the users here hoping to cash in on the success of Steemit.com.
There were perhaps 35 or more flagged votes on the original "I'm a little girl" post which is about the highest number I can recall seeing. Why do you think that is? Because all of us that downvoted don't like 14 year old anime fans? No, it's because we care about what the possible negative effects of a post like this can cause; that could be easily resolved if the OP wanted to resolve them. The longer this all goes without resolution, the more certain I am that this is a catfish, since money talks.
If Meiisheree is legit, they will stand to make a lot more money if they prove they are 14. That sort of monetary motivation should get them to talk to their parents to resolve this OR if they are not 14, it will get them to make a fake ID in photoshop so they can keep milking Steemit.com :(
Quite honestly I can say that if @ned and @dan knew my intentions they wouldn't have a problem with my healthy skepticism.
We can't all agree on how things should be done. I'm afraid that we will just have to agree to disagree on this topic and I hope I can eat my words some day and apologize with no malice. Just know that I'm thinking of the health of this platform that I desperately want to see prosper and fulfill it's promise. Nothing more, nothing less.
Cheers
You'll see ;)
This site is full of sycophants. There is no room for anyone to have a different view than the status quo which is pump pump pump the hype. If anyone says something critical of this, they are branded a whiner or envious or a hater.
It is impossible for there to be a healthy debate, because those that have the power can essentially vote up things they want others to hear and not vote for things they don't want others to hear. The minnows who don't want to rock the boat because they want to get crumbs from the whales don't say anything, and if they do, they aren't rewarded for it, so why bother?
How can so many people ignore this? This ignoring of the obvious gives users the impression that this platform is not on solid ground, because if the platform was solid it could take criticism and respond with good arguments to counteract the criticism. Instead, dissenting views are simply not upvoted by whales and the conversation dies on the vine.
So many here are here to make a quick buck and don't give a darn about the long term future of this concept. This is why I am so adamant about this poster proving their story. Because if they keep hiding behind excuses it does more harm than good to the site.
FWIW, I've been involved with anime/manga since the late 70s, and started the first anime club at my university in the San Francisco bay area in the late 80s. Went to some of the earliest anime conventions in the USA, generally before they were strictly anime conventions and were more just anime being played 24 hours a day at other conventions. Yeah, I was one of those guys sleeping in the anime room trying to watch every episode of Lupin III until my eyes fell out of my head.
Anyway, I digress.