Thanks for the acknowledgment @ackza.
When I read the @antonette post, it was very late at night.
I was tired and wondering what had happened to our beautiful community.
And a voice in me said, "No, don't do it."
Arguing with people who use downvoting to silence opinions.
Seeing once again the whales who use their steem to rule.
And a voice in me said, "No, you have done enough".
I was resigned to letting Steem.it continue on its way to the wasteland.
And the voice in me said "No, you can't help everyone".
I exit the post and sat. I knew what I was going to do anyway.
Then, a greater voice came to me.
And said, "Yes, . . . ."
H. G.
woah that was intense! glad it worked out! and yes i feel its important you get your acknowledgement
and yeah whats funny about the whales flagging wars, is that for many people, it doesnt effect them, and most people dont see that stuf go on, and theyre will soon be so many people posting that noone will be able to monitor and flag all of it, we will be ok, it wont be a wasteland, its just data and steemit will have sub communities and things like @Zappl and @View.ly will expand the steem blockchain to nw horizons, new worlds will be created, millions of new users will drown out any past tyranny, new whales will emerge to bring order and justice to the realm, because a councilk of dolphins will be used to correct ANy arbitrary Whale making lone wolf decisions with their flagging, it will be corrected by the community VERY easily. no whale can silence anyone because others will come to their aid and eventually we will have dolphin councils with more collective power than ANY whale, so it will correct itself, emergent order, see what i mean? lets say a whale abvuses his flaging power, takes away the earnings of a minnow for a whoel week, well, the diolphin council can go and give upvots they save for emrgencies to RESTORE these posts back to their pre unfair flagging levels, and thus any unfair flagging can be revsresed this way, see the good will survive and protect other good...the evil is srlfish and cannot last long...we will achieve great feats of social media through our voting system that rewards opeople who can make good choices and save.
Please remeber, its going to be better than you thinbk, youve been on stemit for a while! lots of long tiem steemit users get depressed ive seen it, its like steemit overstimulation diosorder, or steemit apathy disordr where u get oo involved with the internal politics of steemit and believ tHAt is steemit when no we will overtake thjose smalltime dramas with al the millions of new users we will see joining! I know the internal politics can suck but it will all fade away, the drama will fade, people will forgive each othr once steem ios $10, bygone swill be bygones, people will be SO happy when theyr all maing money that people will set aside differences and get along.