Telling people what they're allowed to do with their own tokens is anathema.
Coercing people who spend in ways that you personally disagree with is DEMONSTRABLY WORSE than the current PAPER FIAT system.
We should be working to IMPROVE protections for personal sovereignty, not looking for ways to CONFISCATE value from people we disagree with.
I would agree with you if we weren't still in the bootstrapping stage.
Anybody dumping everything now is counterproductive to getting bootstrapped.
It's no more wrong to flag away rewards than it is to give them in the first place, when you give them they have come from the same place that flags send them back to.
Games have rules, without rules there is no game.
If we change the rules to fit our purposes, what was the point of the game?
Playing a different set of rules changes this game fundamentally.
Anybody not liking the rules can divest, if they so choose.
Flags confiscate nothing.
Nothing is your's until it is in your wallet.
Harsh, yes, but succeeding in a tough game deserves more accolades than just showing up.
Imo.
ME: GIANT WHALE UPVOTING MYSELF TO EARN DIVIDEND
YOU: GIANT DAILY DOWNVOTE
ME: GIANT WHALE FOLLOWS YOUR CURATION TRAIL TO EARN DIVIDEND
HOW IS THIS NOT NAKED COERCION ?
Upvoting yourself is a hive faux pas.
This game has rules, if it didn't there wouldn't be any point in playing it.
One rule is that we have to flag abuse, or get sucked dry by low effort posting.
If you are not doing that, you are playing the game in contradiction to its rules.
I guess I'm not following your example.
Please clarify.
every single time i've asked the vigilantes what "the rules" are, i've been told "there are no rules", "anybody can downvote anybody else for any reason".
how is anyone supposed to know "don't self-vote" ?
that seems like a simple code fix.
the "rules" should be in code.
Not selfvoting is a small sacrifice the community asks you to have the self discipline to make.
In return you can blog for money.
You can comment for money.
If you are that selfish that you can't make yourself stop taking from us and giving to yourself, we probably don't want you here anyway.
If everybody self voted the platform will fail.
Nobody wants to play that game.
I prefer that people self control rather than be controlled, eh?
Without knowing wrong, there is no right, irrespective of any labels.
Without the option to offend, not offending loses its moral victory.
this sounds like a systemic design failure.
not an individual moral failure.
it's bad game design.
This is the best failed game design I've played.
I'm up thousands of dollars.
For making squeaking sounds on the interwebz.
I think forcing self control is a good thing.
The alternative is everybody out of control.
Look around, when John Wayne left behind his temporal plane, violence lost any pretense to honor.
Forgive me if I prefer anarchy to chaos.
Which is what we have here.
A community trying to find both its boundaries and its way.
I think we are doing just fine.