What the hell guys? We can't have a conversation without bullshit flags down voting because you disagree with the content?
Flags are for correcting completely crazy valuations, and suppressing spam, not because you disagree with something.
I actually think flags are necessary but need to be used responsibly. Which... Yeah... No comment.
Sorry I was late to this party.
I wonder though, maybe trolls and pirates don't really care about flags. Trolls troll to troll, who's to say they don't have a real account somewhere that's well behaved, but they use these proxy accounts to do their dirty work?
And pirates... pirates can post links to files, plagiarize etc.. all in the name of making content available. People will always have access to it, just by clicking the show button. They don't think twice about rep/value etc..
The flag looks like it's gonna hurt real users more than the intended target. Again, if someone gets pissy, they'll use a proxy account to express their anger, trollery, not their real account (which they may execute caution before using it to speak).
The flag needs to be recoded and require maybe hundreds of users to click flag before it takes effect. Whales can probably keep their large inflence with upvoting, but flagging should require the collective effort. If you see a Disney film uploaded, identify it with the community and everyone can go kick it off the site to prevent some lawsuit drama. Community effort for cleanup instead of just 1 user.
Not a bad idea, I'll grant you that. I don't think the examples of trolls or pirates changes the discussion. If you use an alternate, you have to split your stake to do it, which in that case there's not much of a difference in treating this as two independent entities.
For now, it's what we have. Keep in mind that the community can and should counter the flag effects of a misbehaving flagger. But if there can be change to make this consensus better, I'm game. Same applies to upvotes in my opinion.
Hello @eonwarped, no need to be sorry, and thanks for adding to the conversation!
I think at the very least Steemit could remove the dithering and post hiding, and maybe replace that with some type of visual indicator in feeds that content has been flagged. This would give people the opportunity to counter the flag if they disagreed with it.
More radically I think they should nix it all together. People could still flag content from other platforms, but it would make this platform more positive in general. Of course they'd have to figure out an alternative solution for dealing with spam though.
But yeah, at the very least; the first part would definitely be doable.
Oh interesting.. I like the idea of the marker of shame instead of hiding the post. But on the other hand suppressing spam is useful... What to do what to do..... Maybe there's a way to accomplish both. Actually the fact that flagged comments go to the bottom should be enough of a censorship in itself? Hum. But then you can spam in response to a high value comment too. Dunno.
Interesting ideas, keep those wheels a turning! The more we question, and contemplate, the faster we get to the answers.