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Don't flag war instigate imo

more than anything else here I feel that flag wars are something that will bring down the whole platform...nobody want's to come into a war zone...worse still is people flee them

Yeah. Some of it is pretty good though. You want the community to respond to abuse and not just let it happen. It's a touch business.

agreed, still there is a fear, at least for myself, that I'll become a target of these miscreants...I really don't have the time to deal with personal attacks and be myself here...touchy sitch indeed!

EDIT: This message will be deleted once replied to...paranoia...cheap destroya :-/

fear and paranoia is real. I know this too. You're doing well already by thinking and conveying what's actually going on.

hmmm looks like I can't delete now...probably better to leave it then

being a responsive community is essential. One look at Matt Trainer.....we know how well our steemit immune system worked: like magic!

That and info. Light is a great disinfectant. If we can publicly show abusers we can publicly stop abusers.

@solar If you're a minnow you'll lose the flag war. Unfortunately we can't do too much aside from alerting the whales who support us to abusive self upvoters. We can try to point it out in comments, and not follow those people - but in the scheme of things, we also depend on the whales who remember what it was like to be a minnow (maybe not on here, but in life !) to use their power to protect the community as a whole.

  • Basically - flagrant self upvotes from whales threatens the survival of Steemit as it drains the reward pool. So, it's in the interest of anyone who views this as a long term community, and not a casino, to call out the assholes :-)

getting in a flag war is not desirable.