Flagging doesn't delete a post/comment from the blockchain, on most UIs it doesn't even hide it. So it's not censorship.
What it is, though, is (if flags/downvotes > upvotes) demonitization of content that was excessively upvoted. Imagine some whale posting 12 random images from the internet, and upvoting each of them for 10$+. Why would we want someone to earn a 100$ a day for spamming the blockchain? Wouldn't we rather those coins going towards people who put their heart and soul into their content, i.e @elsiekjay?
To reiterate a few things: the way the reward pool works is, X coins are added each day, and depending how many upvotes/downvotes were given, Y STEEM is subtracted from it, and given to users as per their posts pending payout, the more downvotes spammers get, the more $ the rest of the community earns. I'll repeat this again, the spam is still on the blockchain, and anyone who wants to see it... can see it... But the abuser will not earn STEEM from it.
So, yeah. Censorship sucks. Luckily the flagtrail doesn't encourage it.
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All of what you wrote is true and I am well aware of; my point is we should look to fix it via code and not direct human intervention.
That statement applies for anyone that may go rouge as well, which is why I would rather code over any entity.
That's just my opinion from experience, hard to change but I'll agree to disagree based on...
Oh? And what type of code can prevent that?
Until someone could give me some insight, I am not buying into the code version of "cold fusion".
@enforcer48 ask Google, Yahoo, Bing, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Wordpress,,,,,, and thousands of devs familiar with anti-spam ware. I'm sure there's open source code available as well 😉
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Right...because they have actually eliminated the issue. Lol
You asked what code; I gave you an answer.
So, you believe this will "eliminate" the issue? lol
I doubt it, but another band-aid will help for sure. If you haven't read the other comments, I've been swayed by @reazuliqbal (changed persception) and think the #flagtrail may actually help.
@enforcer48 Have a day 😁
It won’t.
But, that’s not my problem.