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P.S. Apparently this blog has been attacked by professional downvoter. And, somehow, one his downvote was enough to outweigh several upvotes thus making several posts hidden. Some messages had to be resposted. Thanks to all who had upvoted the original ones and thanks again for upvoting the reposts.
Bloom don't usually involve him/her self with a such a mediocre type meme, meaning the meme itself wasn't bad....I think it was the tags more than the meme that did the post in. I say because usually the stuff I see him/her downtown when it comes to post is blatantly outright racist type stuff.
Just, um, playing "devil's advocate" for a moment, would you say it's "blatantly outright racist" to post pro-black or pro-asian or pro-middle eastern memes/tags?
Why have you seen "blatantly outright racist" post that are pro-black, pro-Asian or pro-middle eastern that has a genocideblack, genocideAsian, or genocidemiddleeastern tags that didn't get flagged? Therein is what probably drew their attention to it.
I've heard the American Prison Industry described as a black genocide (probably accurate).
I've also heard Immigrant Detention Centers described as Concentration Camps (also probably accurate).
And Christians often scare each other with a vision of a future where their beliefs are considered a mental illness (like in Russia).
But to your point, I haven't noticed any posts or tags specifically, but even if I did, do you think those should be downvoted prima facie?
Who am I to judge what some find disturbing. I been flagged over less...lol. The only thing I know for sure is I didn't think it was offensive.
Your opinion is your most valuable asset. Don't fall into the trap of thinking your ideas don't matter.
Also, if you set your default rewards to "decline payout" this will immunize you to downvotes.
Supporters can still send you steem, and or steemdelegations.
This would be supporting the dishonor that this platform supports.
We could use Facebook and send each other bitcoin too, avoiding Steem altogether. But we don't want to do that. We want a platform that supports Free Speech, and doesn't discriminate and attack your finances when an angry whale decides to take your 'rewards' away ;)
I agree. The downvoter in this case is actually a pretty small fish (12,236.461 steempower).
I'm just trying to help "stop the bleeding" so to speak.
Thanks for the advise. I'll try that. There were hardly any rewards (and now, thanks to this SOB there won't be any at all), so that's not a big deal. This freak appears to be looking for and voting down everything I post regardless of the contents (including comments to other posts). If I can keep posting and commenting without fear that this vengeful jerk votes me down to a negative reputation - that's sure worth losing a few satoshi in steem rewards.
And hopefully we can boost you out of your 8 rep!
Downvoters with lower rep than you have no effect on your rep, so if we can get you above the default of 25, then most of the small-fry downvotes won't cause you any problems.
My understanding is that downvotes are not to be used to "virtue signal" simple differences of opinion. That's what the "mute" button is for.
Downvoting is free-speech in the exact same way that shouting down a speaker in public is free-speech.
Are you saying that I should be expressing myself by Downvoting those that I disagree with? Like so many on here do when they remove the rewards from someone who created content? I should just, express myself, by removing their rewards?
FROM THE OFFICIAL (UNOFFICIAL) STEEMIT ETIQUITE GUIDE
"rewards" and "This post is hidden..." "This picture is hidden." This............
I understood the downvote to be to combat SPAM, Bots, etc.
You use it to hide posts and take time and effort payoff (rewards) money from those that you don't like.
...and that is exactly what I see all over the internet in regards to those that have left here and why. Soooo many to ignore?
Completely Illogical.
What surprised me in this whole story is that a single downvote could outweigh several upvotes. I could understand if there were 6 downvotes vs 5 upvotes - the net score would be negative. But when one behemoth downvoter can use all his steam power to make half-a-dozen comments hidden and slash one's reputation three-fold overnight - that was a rather nasty surprise. Thanks again to all who helped me to get back on my feet.
Way better than facebook.
I think your post is stupid. I've upvoted it for visibility
You seem like a fair-minded individual.
You might keep an eye on this,
https://steemit.com/steemflagrewards/@logiczombie/q4twus
This downvoting is what killed Steemit.
Don't sweat the down votes, put out your content and your audience will find you.
As you can see, we are a tough crowd.
We like the persistent.
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(1) PROTECT YOURSELF
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"I [may] disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
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Thanks again for your help and for the moral support.
You might find this interesting,
https://steemit.com/reputation/@moeknows/some-interesting-facts-about-reputation-on-steemit
@bloom, Y U mad bro?
Thanks to all who responded. Thanks for your help and for the moral support. Hopefully this works and I can keep posting without worrying about downvoting. Worst comes to worst, I'll just have to register a new ID (with the fresh score) and be careful until my reputation outweighs that of the bully.
Mission Accomplished.
Apparently declining rewards has little to no effect on protecting your rep.
@freezepeach, please consider reviewing this case.
@steemflagrewards, please consider reviewing this case.
@freezepeach has run out of steem-power for this one.