@the.masses How's them boots taste? You get 'em nice and shiny?
You need to wipe your nose, you still have a little brown on it.
Now it's time for a reality check.
User attention and engagement are abysmal on this platform.
There isn't any plagiarized content that has been trending and this post is not plagiarism as far as I can tell.
I don't know how many people you've brought to this platform, but I'm up to over 300 people I've personally introduced, sat down, walked them through it and helped to get started. Every one of them is face to face contact with people I know.
Users don't care about anything that's trending at all. They care that they are rewarded proportional to their efforts. They continue to feel that way until the time they have so many friends and family on here that it has basically replaced their primary social media experience. After which, any money earned is really just a bonus.
A single downvote from a whale like this, completely unexplained, with content that is informative and original, alienates not only the person who was downvoted, but their entire first circle of friends. That might be 1 person or it might be 100. It really depends on the person and how well connected they are socially.
@Dan didn't do anyone a service here. He showed that the platform has the potential to censor content for reasons unknown and the assumption from the actual masses is that he is being petty.
If he explained his reasoning it would be different, but right now all it did was make him look bad. And since he is the leader of this place it makes the platform bad.
Flagging is a passive aggressive form of harassment when you don't have the spine to stand up and explain why and give people the chance to correct it.