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in #flagging7 years ago (edited)

In 10 months of steemit. @aggroed has flagged 1 post. It was hate speech against gays. It incited violence. So, I flagged it.

Today, I'm sorry to say I have flagged a user heavily. @el-mago was flagged by steem cleaners for putting porn he didn't own nor cited onto a post. He was dinged by @steemcleaners for it. A member of Minnow Support flagged the post as well for spam and abuse. @el-mago proceeded to rage flag the MSP member in question. He did this to several people.

I asked @el-mago to remove the flags and explained that his behavior was against the very few community standards that are actively enforced by users. I asked multiple times. I received nothing but rudeness and crassness. While reviewing other interactions he was having on the block chain I noticed him insulting, using foul language pretty crassly at other people especially women, disrespecting women, and generally acting poorly.

After multiple warnings and even sharing that I would act on his behalf to remove several flags placed on his post he continued his current stance and threatened @aggroed. I have gone through and flagged his active posts on this account and @aggroed. I have voted on the MSP member's posts to undo the effect of his rage flags.

I am in a moral quandary about one other thing. @o0pepper0o is a camgirl style blogger that has a lot of nudes of herself and erotic/xxx material. It's outside the scope of MSP to upvote her content, but el-mago has been particularly rude to her in addition to flagging her active posts. I would encourage followers of this blog to upvote the active content on her blog (he flagged her resteems too).

He's new. I'm willing to remove all flags and leave him in peace if he removes his rage flags and stops using copyrighted material in his posts. Otherwise I plan to use this account to flag every post he ever makes until an apology is issued and the behavior is altered.

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In this, I'm in complete agreement. While I am an ardent supporter of free speech (even that which is called hate speech) vendetta flagging is something else. It lessens the community as a whole, and seeks to silent those that disagree.

If I lothe what someone is saying, I'll argue a little too make sure that is what they're saying (misinterpretation causes a lot of enemies that otherwise could find common ground) and if I still don't want to hear their shit I'll mute them. Flagging should be kept as a punative measure reserved for those that would silence unpopular thoughts, corporate shills that take money to actively decieve us, and bots that drown out the conversations with noise. Clarification: there are a lot of good bots around. I'm not talking about those. Those bots are great.

This reply is already long, and branching into rant territory.

Tl;Dr: Vendetta flaggers hurt the community. I don't think anybody minds a life lesson/example being made here.

I'm following you and support you !!

Thanks man! I'll be getting back to actually posting before the end of the week.

Well put @jdc !! Couldn´t agree more.
Great insight :D

"Flagging should be kept as a punative measure reserved for those that would silence unpopular thoughts, corporate shills that take money to actively decieve us, and bots that drown out the conversations with noise"

, and flagrant plagiarism?

I am an ardent supporter of free speech . Its obvious FLAGGING is a slippery slope it will only to vendetta flagging and every effort to silence the speech of those who disagree. If this is steemit idea its a poor idea and the road people like me closing their accounts. if they start the censorship narrative, I see no future here.

Flagrant yes. Plagiarism can be a bit of a grey area though. Would you call DBZ Abridged plagiarism? Toei does, funimation doesn't. Legal definitions don't have any moral or community basis so we can't relay on those to serve us well here.
Before I include plagiarism, we would need some solid community guidelines on what constitutes flagrant plagiarism.

"Plagiarism can be a bit of a grey area though. Would you call DBZ Abridged plagiarism?"

See, this is why I'm so damn conflicted about all of this. So I'm going to pull a 180' and agree with what you're effectively saying here, and that is to maybe just leave ALL the stuff that has the potential to include grey areas out of flagging's purposes altogether.

Keep that blade's edge as sharp as possible...

That's a good way to put it.

A bit of scope focus gets much better rewards for the same amount of effort.

Plagiarism can be a bit of a grey area and I tend to frown on people who feel they have "intellectual property rights" over language or ideas . Its a slippery slope as well . I think some people are quick to attack anyone they disagree with flagging or hate speech and abusing any system intended to protect or provide justice. There will always be clever assholes to abuse any such system. I think we are better served by just leaving free speech alone. You don't have to agree but you have no right to silence anyone.

Good on you to take your time and make a post like this explaining your actions to better the Steemit community. You have my respect!

Thank you , respect is something I expect to have to earn. Unfortunately there are people who would love to beat you over the head with a bike lock and demand it . We surely are living a time of twilight Zone, safe space snowflakes cry babies are the most despicable abusing and retarded violent and confused people I have even had the misfortune of sharing a country with.

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I saw some of the posts and responses to others. Its not the type of community I want to be involved in so you have my support all the way. I am not sure who the user is, but the hate speech and way he speaks to other is not acceptable.

Its easy to call anything you disagree with hate speech although being a repulsive fag and flaunting your balls in the face of others you would have no problems with. Your the typical asshole who thinks life is a one way street. All speech is protected and if I'm expected to see 2 disgusting queers sucking each others face while I eat I and have to put up with it , I should be able to call you a disgusting queer without there being a problem . Or do you expect tolerance only when it suits you ?

Nice, you used my account for upvoting this post for your goals and no one from the minnowsupports never upvoted any of my posts inspite of promisses to do this.

Just nice.

the upvotes are done manually by you. You register and type $upvote URL.

it wasn't done manually.

Set up account on steemvoter with a rule to upvote minnowsupport is required for registration

I don't think you understand the upvoting system. Step in msp Discord chat tomorrow and I will walk you through it.

I'm new to this but my goals are not driven by money , I just want to take the ship from the degenerate pirated and turn our ship around . Money means nothing to me so don't worry I'm bullet proof and money does not matter to me. There is Nothing they can do to mob gank me, its on I'm bullet proof .

I'm following you and support you !!

I'm following you and support you !!

Sorry that this has happened. Plagiarizers can get pretty defensive when you confront them about why what they are doing is wrong.

Following @o0pepper0o to show my support. No one should have to put up with that.

Thanks for helping make Steemit awesome.

Right, I'm also following her for support. Only for support ;)

Yo, don't shoot, it's called humor - look it up ;) Just kidding I'm a good guy, I'm supporting her for real.

Plagiarizers and hate speech ? are you guys retarded ? Get the fuck off my page you dumb twit.

Dude...I'm not on your page?

Very classy, @tipolj - spewing nonsense on a post you don't own, to a person you don't know, about something that isn't even accurate? "Your page" is not even in this zip code.

You can try bully shaming or intimidation on someone else , It wont work on me, I don't give a crap about you or you diluted support . you are just another regurgitating mindless parrot . Too many like you already. What we need is people willing to stand up to this filthy social depravity brainwashed and used to further the goals of group thuggury. Your under mind control come back when you control your own mind. I have been hearing your redirect for 30 yrs , just look where your ideas have brought us. We are at the edge of the abyss. The pendulum is swinging back to a NEW age. YOU are no longer in charge go away. I wont be duped by sheeple used by the ruling class to do their will. go away I don't need you until you unplug

Funny how you regard simple observations of truth as shaming and intimidation. Childhood is turning out to be pretty tough on you, huh?

And done. Upped all hers, Downed all his.

And now my power is uh... 23.36%, but oh well, it was for the children!

...and thanX for reducing MY Voting Power,
13¢ for You LOL

wat?

LOL, I upvoted your comment, despite being under 100%

It cost me right at 2% Voting Power.
I need to wait to upvote, so it does not go down
right away... I need info on how long to wait for
max effect on voting power.

oh lol :D

Allegedly it's 24 hours to 100% with no voting in the meantime, to slow it down recharging. HOWEVER, since HF19, people are reporting 24-36-never hours for full recharge. I have no hard data, only anecdotal comment hearsay.

My recharge rate was more like 36hrs but I could not refrain from a few upvotes.
;)

Poor julianita, you really skewered "her" LMAO

Following you now, great profile!
I hope to go off grid someday. I am a professional electrician,
and actually working on a Tesla Generator, ver. 3.3 showed
Great Promise! :D

I call em like I see em! Welcome aboard! I'll return the favor, I need me some tesla juice!

we should not be afraid of flagging... i have flagged abunch of plagiarizing posts and i am this close to start flagging those spam-ididntreadyourpost-followme-comments...

plus... we really don't need crappy stolen internet nudes on steemit to begin with

I am an ardent supporter of free speech . Its obvious FLAGGING is a slippery slope it will only to vendetta flagging and every effort to silence the speech of those who disagree. If this is steemit idea its a poor idea and the road people like me closing their accounts. if they start the censorship narrative, I see no future here.

Free Speech is critical to a fair society... 100% agreed

Flagging can be a slippery slope, creates drama and will be abused... agreed.

Is that steemits idea of flagging? certainly not!

We do need tools to counteract abuse and plagiarizm. In the end the flag is "just" a downvote.

And as such not only flagging, but voting in general will and can be abused, any tool can be abused, even a hammer.

If you have a better idea about how to deal with copy-cats and spammers i'd like to hear it!

I agree with you 100% . Its exactly what's happening everywhere. The mob rule is using our own laws and democracy to bully everyone who disagrees with their endless power reach. LOVE speech doesn't need protection , its that witch offends you that must be said and has to be protected . The point of free speech is to show BOTH SIDEs of the coin NOT JUST the side that YOU support . So many university students and they learn nothing.

Free Speech is critical to a fair society... 100% agreed
Flagging can be a slippery slope, creates drama and will be abused... agreed. you are 100% CORRECT

I'm following you and support you !!

Based on your profile and your wallet, I am suspect of your defense or attempts to spin here. "@julianita" and I suspect you may know our guy better than you admit.

Not everyone here is gullible.
Nice porn collection you got on your feed. Looks familiar to a certain rage flaggers collection, eh?

Coincidental you both have latin names as well. Serendipity.

Obvious trolls are obvious. Rich or not, like IGAF about money. I got plenty offline from here. I'm here to enjoy quality people and art and writing and community, not shithead porn copyright thieves, so have a nice day. Go watch your posts and play alone.

no, if it comes to stolen images and unoriginal content... "crappy" is not just my opinion but an implicit attribute!

my enthusiasm for cryptocurrencies and all things blockchain brought me here.

I am not a great fan of copyright-laws, but I do believe in originality.

and blatantly copying stuff just to post it here without any original input... it just doesn't add any value and shouldn't be rewarded...

but what are you arguing about here anyways?! Do you think it's legit to be rewarded for something that didn't take effort and was simply copy-pasted?

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

Just so happens this morning (my time) that I was also flagged and @aggroed came to my rescue. All opinions are tolerated on Steemit but being malicious just goes too far!

Thanks for standing up , I never doubted you would be there

Congratulations @minnowsupport!
Your post was mentioned in my hit parade in the following category:

  • Upvotes - Ranked 10 with 423 upvotes

good morning @minnowsupport may I ask is the minnowsupport gone or i am kicked at discord? i cannot see it now. i know i didn't do anything wrong though.

Man, this highlights the improper use of the flagging system. It should not be used to abuse people in the way it was or out of spite. Good for you taking the actions you did.

Thank YOU , Tyrants never take your power they trick you into giving it to them. I believe in humanity and I believe people like you and me will always STAND, why ? Its what we were born to do...STAND !!! No matter how many bullies there are I will always STAND , and show no FEAR ! I will not be manipulated or bully shamed or any other type of attack. And yes I will always defend the weak powerless people in their radar, I will help them STAND and Find their Balls and their Voice. I stand For Personal Freedom, equability and fare play. Forcing filth down my throat and brainwashing or cry bullying wont work here. THANK YOU for Standing with me, I believe in YOU .

I'm following you and support you !!

We the minnow school, have your back, boss. I'm off to up vote me some cam girl posts. And down vote me some misogynist posts. Would you like a cup of coffee while I'm out of the office on this errand?

Many - in the most vulgar and horrible ways. and of course, his 39 total posts, all fairly ugly porn, and i don't hate porn, but his "taste" is pretty bad.

More to the point, it's not "opinion" I'm operating on, it's his direct, horrible actions.

I will not actually. You asked "what makes us think" also known as "why is that your opinion" and it's not an opinion. However I am not going to link to this guy and promote him, and some of his remarks are in the NSFW areas anyway, another reason not to link from here.

Keep trying. No one with a brain is listening to you. Don't you have porn to steal and post right now? I have friends and food to tend to.

I was the original victim outside @o0pepper0o. When I came in to assist with flagging @el-mago, I had no idea that he would be offended at the little 30 SP downvotes I put on some of the spam.

When I randomly lost a bunch of rewards on some of my posts and had some go hidden entirely, I was confused. Looked through my flags and spotted the issue.

The other part I find hilarious is the amount of purchased SP. He started with placing approx 1300 into a second account and using his main as well. Now he is comfortably into 10k+ SP on el-mago and still 1300+ on the other account, just to do this.

My posts have been voted back up, and I am unbelievably grateful. The reaction in the MSP discord was so amazing. The speed with which pitchforks and torches were gathered was heart-warming.

For now I have removed all flags I placed as a sign that we can reverse from this position, but I leave the heavy lifting to those with more SP and more experience.

Goodwill and truth always prevail . Don't worry about the bullies keep on Trumping don't look back. Allot of mobsters and mob minded people of late but they are still a small minority, don't sweat these people they die by their own hand just with them rope

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Though from hearing only your side of this situation, it seems like you could have a valid point. What I dont like is the sense that people are ganging up on him. I had a similar situation being here for just a couple weeks and not knowing the "unwritten" rules of steem power and flagging. My rep went from a 25 to a 5 simply because I was posting videos that a group of people with alot of influence didnt like. Given that Im new and dont have that steem power I pretty much couldnt defend myself from these actions. I wasnt given any warning, after being flagged the flaggers didnt even write me to let me know that I was flagged and gave me a reason why. Given that Steemit didnt notify me that I was being flagged I was going an entire week while flaggers with a alot of steem power were destroying my page and rep and hiding my content. My point is, speak to the guy, but ganging up on people aint cool. What do you expect when he's being ganged up on, not to rage flag? Of course he's going to lose that battle, given that he's new and he's alone. But in many ways it seems like everyone with steem power and friends are becoming the police now. I've even gotten a taste of that as well, so that comes from experience. And no one decided to remove flags, or even write me to school me. People are having fun doing it, knowing that new people are virtually helpless to it. Who can they tell? It's a decentralized platform. Just my thoughts.

Yeah. That seems shitty.

This is different. You can see I communicated with him multiple times before flagging and only after he threatened me. I was polite, curt, and explained the situation before I did anything.

You were, but you dont speak for everyone. That's the problem. For every kind and respectful person such as yourself, there are a group of police out there destroying peoples pages. When people are being ganged up on sometimes its hard to see friend from foe when all you see are flags.Upvoted your comment.

I agree in some of what that's said. This ganging up on some one and rage flaggings is a bunch of BS. If one person has an issue with anouther that's fine, but to start a hood mantality and all gang up on them is low hand hurts the community as a whole! I am dealing with this right now with someone. Pure rude c to the un and t. her and a friend rage flagged mine and someone else's posts. Someone that was less than 24 hr to steemit. Now in my defence I was openly trolling her rudeness And I had told her flat out I was. but She still came back for more. Well after she hit the wall about 30 times and 2 days of banter later. she started to rage flag. Why do grown adults act like children? Grow up. words only have power if you give it to them. He who is faultless may cast the first stone.

Its the new way of the leftist social Nazi , silence anyone who disagrees . But don't worry people are on to it and all this cry bully abuse is about to end quickly . The mob rule gangster of intimidation and violence by any means is coming to an end . People realize the game and they will be met with HUGE fierce resistance look around Americans are coming together like NEVER Before. After 35 yrs of Filthy degenerates in power at all levels they are systematically being dismantled . The people are waking up and realize we over slept and almost went into coma. The pendulum is on its way back and we will purge our lands of evil and abuse not to mention Satanist pedophiles . Thanks for STANDING. Your the best of US.

I'm following you and support you !! I like gutsy people not afraid to stand up ! Rock on

Much respect. Thank you for the support!

Thanks Buddy , I'm with you !!

I never walk in FEAR , I know there are GOOD people everywhere just like YOU !! They are just waiting for the opportunity to make a stand. Its so funny because that's what we are born to do STAND !! Thanks for your support I always knew you were there in the background lol I wasn't worried Batmen are always around

I'm following you and support you !!

Thanks for the words Tipolj.

Thanks for standing against bullies . Respect

don't envy your position.. although we as a community have freedom.. perhaps some
stretch the limits. It's hard when this community comes from around the world with different political, religious, economic, and social views. Good luck to you walking the line..

If mine was the power, I would always use it against plain rudeness and aggression no matter the "different political, religious, economic, and social views".

I used up ALL my voting power on this exercise of righteous indignation, your turn, game master @fingersik! :D

If we as a community have freedom, then what's the problem ? why are there cry bullies rushing to silence me ? Why do you need a flagging mob to intimidate the opinion of others ? Freedom are like muscles if you don't use them they fade and die. True freedom needs to crutches , freedom of speech needs no protection or safe spaces. These are all clever lies and manipulation of truth. Truth stands anywhere with no help FROM ANYONE.

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Wow! Steemit drama. It sux you have to deal with that.

Sharing. There's always a dissenter. :(

Thank God for dissenters or their would be only 1 word and silence .

That's a very valid point!

I always Stand with truth and freedom no matter where I find it, sometimes its facing a huge mob , but its ok I love to support the underdog and I love a good fight , I live for a good fight !

I don't love a fight, but I support an honest, well thought out argument and debate is how we expand our views.

Sometimes that's the fight, specially when others aim to silence your views. truth should offend no one . Facts cant be hate speech

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@el-mago has not a single payout in the pipeline. Blurred out mostly. Upped n Downed the proper people. Some people are such assholes.

Yeah. She was pretty cool about it too. Just kinda matter of fact. He couldn't have been a bigger dick. Not the sort that's welcome here.

Steemit is similar to the old west, just run that bandit out of town or string him up.

I got my first downvote that I know of, from @el-mago. Fuck him.

Its ok bro !! It matter not to me, I'm not here for the money .

I'm following you and support you !!

Then why are you on Steemit? Obviously you have no concern for the community. Play by the simple rules or leave. Why would you have money on this platform if you don't care about the payout?

What exactly does it mean to get flagged? You loose all potential payouts, right? Why can one single person have such a strong power to ruin the experience for others? I mean, I could basically go through all your posts and flag them, as far as I understand it. What is the purpose of this possibility?

The flagging system exists to stop fraud and abuse. Flagging itself is sometimes abused. Higher SP holders have the ability to flag lower SP holders. It undoes rewards on a post and it can have pretty dramatic effects on rep. You may notice he's currently rocking a rep of 3. If he continues to catch large flags his posts which are spam, abusive and against community standards will be invisible in general.

You may not realize it, but responsible flagging is a huge part of what keeps this community nice, pleasant, and troll free. Negative behavior is penalized strongly by community members.

Read his comments. I'm willing to bet you'll feel better if all his posts and thoughts are hidden as well as his spam, stolen porn, and shit posts.

I believe you. It is just that actions like these will create a downward spiral for him and never make him overthink what he is doing. But I don't have a better solution either.

Can one flag from a minnow make the payment for a post be blocked?

Flags is simply the chosen representation on Steemit.com. More accurately, in the code of the blockchain, a flag is a downvote. If 1 user upvotes a post with enough power to give it $1, and another user downvotes the post but only has half as much power, the payout will move down to .50 cents. No single flag blocks a post from getting rewards, and you do not have to be higher powered or higher reputation than the person you are flagging.

Thanks. I hopefully will never have to use that.

if money is your concern worry otherwise it means NOTHING !!

Why can one single person have such a strong power to ruin the experience for others? MOB RULES , they abuse the system that's what they do to bully people into silence . its an old Nazi fascist trick

I'm following you and support you !!

He must've been the most hated SteemIt user LOL

not the 1st time I STAND alone against the MOB

I really don't know both sides of the story,im all for freedom of speech,too. I prefer not to take sides :)

its okay don't stand with me they will destroy you . Don't do it !! I Got this ! I can take them all ! Take a good look at my pic , I'm not made of candy . Thank you for caring enough to help me but don't the mob will try to destroy you , don't do it . I'm not in this for money so I'm bullet proof !! Thanks for you kindness

I'm following you and support you !!

That is kind of you to do that,thank you :)

my pleasure !

I'm following you and support you !!

Jeez man , I have never upvoted porn, I think. Here I go in the name of minnowsupportproject. @aggoroed, you have never really asked for anything. Never thought this would be your first suggestion. Here I go big man.

I follow and support you now , I like honest Gutsy people. rock on

Thankyou friend and I will follow you

We are with you minnowsupport.

I'm following you and support you !!

wellllll... thanks for sharing @o0pepper0o with us...

respect of each other is really needed here.
keep on it. i am on your side.

RESPECT is earned no demanded . Respect wont come out of bullying or flagging or intimidation not to mention social shaming ! But don't worry I'm hard core , I don't melt in the rain. I'm a strict constitutionalist and a patriot who STAND for personal FREEDOM and the right to self Governance , I can STAND anywhere Its what I was BORN to do . Fear no one or nothing , Make your stand no matter how many leftist bullies attack you, remember Batmen are everywhere they love to come out of the shadows and even the field. The underdog will always be protected from the mob who seeks to rule him. Thanks for your support

agree,, we could unite, we can beat all of them.
following you also.😃

I'm following you and support you !!

Flag away boss.

FIRE AWAY !!!

I'm following you and support you !!

I have never seen someone that low in rep. wow. Thank you for using your flags in a reasonable manner and looking out for the community. It’s what makes communities like this awesome!

Yeah, flagging is actually a very powerful way to moderate behavior. It relies on the highest stakeholders actually being good people too.

I saw someone in the new feed, and this was a week ago, so the details escape me, but they had a rep of 5. That's awful. But the post that I saw was good, original content (as far as I could tell) I wondered if they were the victim of some accident or malice. Unfortunate that they could have been. Hope some whales came to their rescue (unless what I saw of their posts was not representative. Schade.)

no your just a sheeple bully !

In my opinion, despite the community excepted standards, as soon as one human being becomes that ugly to another human being despite several warnings of a reprimand, he had it coming to him.

Yep, probably the single biggest dickhead I've met here in 10 months.

he had it coming to him. Said the NAZI when he shot the Jew

Really? That's the comparison you're going to make here?
This is not a government. This is not a country.
Steemit is an online social network. You are not being discriminated against.
If you act the fool, THE COMMUNITY WILL OSTRACIZE YOU.
That's all there is to it.

Anytime you need a MOB to silence an opposing view the example is spot on. That's what Nazi fascist do, they gang up on anyone that's goes against their agenda or opinion by calling free speech a hate speech. Since when does love speech need protection ? It doesn't , dissent and opposing views are the ones who need to be protected by FREE SPEECH

Opposing views Vs. Trolling are not the same thing. Don't confuse yourself.

Trolling is YOUR opinion , NOT Mine. That's the difference you seem to not understand. I'm not obligated in anyway to think like you or be like you or act like you . Thank god or we would all be perverted gay lunatics .

Let me quote the original poster as to why the person referred to in the post was flagged:

It was hate speech against gays. It incited violence.

^^^Inciting violence goes beyond simply having opposing views.
I will flag all day long if that is the behavior I see going on.

Flag away until your content I don't give a shit what you do , I'm not trying to control you , YOU are trying to control me and that's were shit hits the fan. I will never give you the right to control me, you cross the line .

I love how you manipulated the word HATE and VIOLENCE , your a real cupcake I hope I don't bruise you too much cupcake, rofl Try not to step on all the blood and guts . your an idiot mob cry baby and a bully

I'm THE GUY WHO POSTED the news story !! I WAS PROMOTING NOTHING!! I HATE NOONE !! YOUR JUST A FAG OFFENDED BY ME POINTING OUT YOUR A FAG AND WHAT YOUR DOING IS DISGUSTING AND TASTELESS . YOU will never silence me !! I have the right to call a mutt and you have every right to be a mutt !! that's how it works !!

I am not on Steemit to have conversations like this. AT ALL.
I WILL, however, flag someone for inciting violence, as was pointed out here.
If you don't agree with that, I have the right to wonder what the hell is wrong with you.
I won't flag you for disagreeing with me, though.
However, if you insist on continuing this conversation, then you're going to have it on your own because I will mute you so you are no longer a part of my Steemit experience.

Are we understood?

inciting violence ? were is the blood spot and the injured or dying ? Oh yea there are NONE, there is no violence don't be such a drama queen and clever manipulator , it wont work on people who think for them selves !! Your an idiot and a drama queen , Your just like the main stream media anything to avoid truth and facts . This is a legitimate NEWS STORY ignored by the fag controlled mainstream media . I post news stories its not personal and I'm not interested in hating anyone STOP being a manipulative little drama queen

I'm not frighten by you or anyone. I prefer my right to speech then your friendship . Simple ! I have the right to free speech and you calling it hate speech and " OSTRACIZING" me with Dirty MOB attacks wont change a dam thing. GOT IT ?

I applaud your efforts here on Steemit. There is always a crazy uncle who spoils the party!

Love @minnowsupport

I don't understand if he is new his power is so low he can't hurt anybody
The rule is when you lower than the other guy nothing happens
Am I right?

I believe that is half correct. Someone with a level 25 account can still have a strong flag if they have enough steem power.

I thought the small guys can't hurt the bigger fisches
But you maybe right - which would be good for us

That's correct, but even if your rep is 25, if you've got a lot of Steem Power (which is what determines your vote power, not your rep), then you're not a little guy. Something to keep in mind is that the reputation number is not figured into anything that has to do with the Steem blockchain at all. It's part of the front-end website itself and is kind of just a reference number. Reputation is important, don't get me wrong, because of course this is a social website and if you get flagged, it hurts your reputuation; it lowers it. If you get flagged enough (especially by someone with high Steem Power) to put you into the negative reputation, you become virtually invisible.
Otherwise, if you and someone else have roughly the same Steem Power, the person with the higher rep does win that one.

Disclaimer: This is based on how I've seen this feature operate since it was introduced. If someone finds my statements here to be inaccurate, hopefully they'll pop up and say something.

I flagged a guy with 60
When I had 25
He had no change
I had the feeling I stay for ever at 25
Thanks anyway for your explanation
sorry I exhausted all my voting power
my next chance to vote is in two days

Things I like, I generally try to vote at about 3-10%. If I really like it, I'll bump it up to, maybe 30-40%. If it's absolutely awesome, like top 5 of the day, I'll slam it with 100%.
Keep in mind my 100% is only like a dollar.

I started with 0,02
I did not now where to change it
Than it went to0,01
And when the steem went down compared
To the dollar
It went automatically to zero
So the guys got angry they thought I took the money back
So they took there votes also back
So I lost the rest

fire away !!

The problem is I don't need the money or care about the intimidation . Hard to control a guy like me. Flag away and do as you like because I don't care about the cry bullies and social shaming mob. I'm here to post news and information to help all those waking up from this NWO slumber, My purpose is to awaken my brothers and sisters from this mental coma. I have all the money I need I could give a rats ass about money so there is NO WAY for them to hurt me. Lets them fire away I am Titanium !!

Why are people doing this. Lol. Flagging, posting shit and such. It's like they are eating themselves from inside because of lack of creativity.

I think of it as a death spiral. They must know in their heart it’s not going work out here for them so they just go crazy. I often wonder if they come here with way to high expectations, or just don’t want put in the time.

That seems like an apt metaphor.

ITS OKAY NO WORRIES IMBULLET PROOF !! thanks' FOR THE LOVE. DONT BRING RATH upon your self I can take them all move back .

This is justice!

Justice is a coin with two sides , anything else is not justice its simple a delusional lie

no this is mob rule, Nazi fascist way to silence opposing views . How could that ever be justice?

We cant just please everyone here,
Minnowsupport keep goin!
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I support your righteous war! Damaging of the community through willful intent hurts all of us and the future of the medium.

will flag and upvote per your suggestions, including upvotes for @o0pepper0o

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I seem to be catching some revenge flags from @el-mago and @steemshitlist. Support where applicable would be appreciated.

I threw you some votes on the flagged posts ...

Many thanks! The community is stronger than the spam trolls!

Yes.... I use daily to run forums and it is unpleasant yet necessary to deal with this type of behaviour. You are doing a good job

justifying mob rule and abuse nice one

I have seen a few accounts that pretty much recently made and are practically used just for flagging, I wonder who could be behind this? Because I don't see any profit in flagging.

I follow and support you now , I like honest Gutsy people. rock on

Haters will hate !! ITS OKAY I CAN TAKE IT !! the money is unimportant to me , thanks for your support

I was curious how flags were looked at..I really can't stand blatant/potentially harmful misinfo. I did unfortunately flag someone for that that also had over 22 blogs posted in 7 hrs....the "info " posted could be highly dangerous for diabetics

Well he killed me for this... Guess it's hammer time... I hope...
raged on me, but peculiar choices on my blogs, and not all of them, only three so far,
but they dead Jim.
:(

Voted back up.

I love you.

This is the best sharing about flagging. @minnowsupport

Awesome post . This Post should be read by all of us and the awareness of all of us will increase and all of us will develop the nationality

I follow and support you now , I like honest Gutsy people. rock on

Many many thanks fr

Thanks for sharing this, and doing this. I'm all for freedom to act as one likes, but not at the expense of others. Glad to see you have taken action.

I was on discord last night as all of this was unraveling. @minnowsupport and @discordiant have been fantastic support and guidance to me.

What I would say is that last night I was proud to be part of the #minnowsupportproject as I wittnessed a community pull together to support each other. My first call of duty this morning was to check in a see if the community had been able to come to a resolve with this 'TROLL'

@aggroed I would also like to commend you for stepping in. there was a lot of anger and disgust in the community last night, yet you called for peaceful resolve and communication

@minnowsupport thank you for this post, and raising this issue with the wider Steemit user

Oh lord! One of the reasons I have come to love Steemit so much is the quality of posts and the tiny amount of this kind of crap I've seen here!

Free speech is one thing, but hatred, rudeness, and what I call kindergarten sandbox behavior is something else.

Thanks for you efforts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Going to check out @o0pepper0o .

FREE SPEECH IS FREE if you control it its no longer free speech . GOT IT ?

I'm new to all this Minnow support, but if what I read is correct, then an education in what is socially acceptable was necessary. Everyone sees the world through different eyes, but respect for one another is a must, especially when we cannot look at each other in the eyes. We have to be extra careful and think about what we are typing. Upvoted and Resteemed.

This is good of you to do :) Trolls can hurt good people.

Only candy people . lol Your exactly the confuse people I fight for. Words hurt only a candy ass. Truth is truth if it hurts it must be true deal with it because tuning off the light wont fix it

thank you for this <3
hes still downvoting my shit tho >< my newest post is at...80 cents? it was at 5 before he and his ghost account swooped in..><
but yes i am really glad this isn't being ignored. he was very aggressively awful to me. i joke that i have a thick skin [i cam soo] but holyhell! ><

I am an ardent supporter of free speech . Its obvious FLAGGING is a slippery slope it will only to vendetta flagging and every effort to silence the speech of those who disagree. If this is steemit idea its a poor idea and the road people like me closing their accounts. if they start the censorship narrative, I see no future here.

While I don't have a lot of steem power I will support @o0pepper0o because she is creating her own content also goes around posting on "properly Sourced Content" in short she is adding to Steem it.

Sadly there are quite a few people that actual believe in some twisted way that it's ok to steal other peoples content (that cost them money and time to produce) and use it without permission.

It's unbelievable to me that they can justify that. Generally these people have never created anything on their own otherwise they would respect the content creators rights.

But I'm very happy to see that the majority of Steemit's user are policing the content. I have had my work stolen before as well.

But there are also people running scams using other peoples work without permission but doing it as their daily photopics trying to look legit and making large payouts on other people's work without permission. Their is no contest, no rewards, nothing for the people who's work they are using. They say it's curation but their attitude, lack of regard and lack of upvoting other people shows it's just a more clever form of piracy.

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