Dont mess with the trolls and stay quite seems like OK survival plan for an individual minnow, but as a community we should not be quite at all. We should react and smash these trolls who can really cause lot of problems in a long run to whole Steemit.
How to stop them? Maybe SP should not be the only thing that gives you influence inside Steemit. Combination with reputation and maybe to enable an option FLAG THE TROLL, some kind of Steemians public court that will remove the influence from a troll who is abusing a system with his SP.
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This is my point. Don't go up against them on your own. If there is questionable content get some backing behind you or point the right eyes towards it.
Or we can just mass flag them back, imagine if even half the people from this "minnow support" project retaliate and flag the troll back, we can wipe them from existence too. Since the voting power has been linearized, we can still inflict significant damage with ~1000 sp, imagine 100 flags (yes, that's a bit far fetched at the moment, but all it takes is some cooperation and awareness). I'm guessing even if the number of flags won't be enough to wipe out payout to 0, it can still destroy a whale's reputation
This is true but then you inflame things. Do we really want a flag war?
How else will one prevent harassment of minnows?
Don't forget if the flagging is reasonable, it's not a "flag war". Even some whales might join in if it means prevention of SP abuse
That is a hope but for now it might be best to keep a low profile, don't invite such a situation
Sure. Fully appreciate your efforts here though