Since last night, I’ve witnessed another account there who brought his brother onto the platform only to see his brother get flagged and chastised because he posted about what he was doing in his travels using the travel hashtag. Evidently one is not supposed to discuss what they are doing when traveling and focus instead on the travel.
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Good way of putting it. Exactly. Pretty good summary.
Yeah. Several things mentioned here. One, people struggle. Two, people can do things like join Hive, Steem, Blurt, etc. Third, jerks come like you said. Bullies crash the party. That's why we can't have nice things so to speak. Fourth, people upvote which is good.
Sadly and strangely, fifth, people, some being dolphins and whales and maybe even sharks, come in and they sometimes begin starting trouble in the neighborhood. They cause problems like I said in number three, they crash the party. But specifically, they flag, they downvote.
That brings up the debate regarding whether or not downvoting should be allowed or not. This post in particular would be a good argument or rebuttal to the failure or the problems of downvoting. This is a good example. I don't like downvotes myself. I'm not going to absolutely say there should never be downvotes. I don't downvote people.
This article here is a good highlight to why we should have no downvotes or to how it can sometimes be abused. I guess there would need to be an alternative to downvotes or other systems in place to counter spam, trolls, abuse, trafficking, child porn, illegal things, very bad things, imaginary hate speech so to speak (I might be joking about this one), etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, and/or perhaps maybe not. I don't know exactly as it is possible the free market can counter bad things to some extent.
Or in some ways, you can't exactly always and completely stop bad things. Downvoting may be there in part as a desire to stop bad things. And I think that is nice. Downvotes can stop bad things and it can also stop good things and good people as mentioned in this post. So, that is where the debate is. What is the lesser of two evils, the potential evils of downvotes or the potential evils of not having a way to downvote anything at all?
I was unable to post this on Blurt. Maybe the comment was too long or maybe it is just technical difficulties for a particular app of Blurt World.
I've always believed the MUTE button and optional community MUTE lists (that mirror NSFW functionality) are far superior to "downvotes". (IFF) someone is violating the law, (THEN) it is law enforcement's responsibility to track them down and drag them into court.
I agree and deleting something could be interpreted as removing evidence of the transaction of the crime in the same way removing security footage or audio recording would be.
It follows the same line of logic for both cases and yet people use cognitive dissonance or whatever they use to illogically departmentalize and conflate (some things) and they especially make distinctions between things which are the same. Evidence is the same as other types of evidence and yet they will argue and say they are aliens to each other ahahaha. Sad but true.
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