Hello there, @gtg!
I've seen you around, helping some people who were unjustly attacked...
I'd like to ask for your assistance recovering this this new user, who was flagged for no reason whatsoever.
https://busy.org/@maxsieg/protecting-free-speech-on-steem
https://busy.org/@maxsieg/nazi-volkswagen-und-seine-heutigen-konzentrationslager
https://busy.org/@maxsieg/silencing-journalists
https://busy.org/@maxsieg/us-politics-is-victim-to-bad-journalism
He joined 3 months ago and he's already being attacked simply for reporting on sensitive topics. This way, Steem will be left behind.
Hello @trincowski :-)
Unfortunately I can't - physically can't - get involved in every story that goes around, especially that in order to make a fair judgement it would involve a lot of research for which I simply don't have time.
Quickly looking at first post of this user I see a lot of misinformation about Steem that I can't agree with.
Saying that flagged users are being robbed is absolutely ridiculous.
Stakeholders have every right to assign their reward shares as they like, whether it is up or down vote.
I really don't understand why people so easily accept "random" upvotes, and yet are so furious when it comes to "random" downvotes, even though downvotes barely exist platform wise.
And that is a lie.
Ability to post on the blockchain is one thing, and even a top witness could not block you from doing that. However, getting rewards is a completely different matter, and upvoting is all about getting rewards.
For instance, while I acknowledge that there are people who believe that the Earth is flat, and they are on Steem, I see no reason for upvoting them just because of diversity or because they were "falsely" flagged.
Upvotes and downvotes are subjective, and from the perspective of voter there's no such thing as "falsely".
Ok, but in that case, Steem is a perfect Troll Magnet for rich kids.
And if that's so... then, once next Bull Market comes, many of us who were investing in Steem for the long term will take the chance to get our money back and won't be investing another cent in this network. I know I will.
I was buying Steem every month and I stopped doing that 4 months ago because of these kindergarten fights.
If the top witnesses are OK with all the senseless bullying that goes around... then it's obvious to me that this platform has little to no chance of surviving, even with all the amazing Developers who are giving sweat and blood for this Blockchain.
It's not smart, from an investor point of view, to keep planting crops in a land full of moles.
If the moles stay... then I'll go elsewhere and I'll take my money with me. I'll look for more fertile ground. And I know for a fact I'm not alone on this. Many are simply afraid of speaking out. But you'll understand that, once you see the number of Power Downs that will be triggered once Steem goes a bit higher.
I came here thinking this would be a better place than Facebook or Twitter, and in many ways, it is... but if the Top Witnesses don't care about their investment, why should we? This starts to feel like a Ponzi Scheme to me, where a few whales lure in new users, get them to buy Steem and then destroy their accounts. What a disappointment.
Also, I was really working on my blog, trying to get as much quality as possible... but now, I'm not trying so hard. And I'll start trying even less. I'll just milk the rewards pool with the least effort possible, if that's what you Top Witnesses want.
Sorry for the long rant, but it pains me to invest so much money, time and effort in a place and see that the top players can't care less about what happens to it.
I'm NOT OK with bullying and you should already know that.
I simply disagree with that author's view on Steem and refuse to upvote it. Is that really a reason for this tirade directed at me or other witnesses?
Being a witness, is in this case, is not relevant at all.
I think this user having his entire blog flagged is a case of bullying.
He wasn't flagged because someone else disagreed with his content, he was flagged simply because people who are involved in a flag war resteemed his article... and a lot of authors these people resteem end up flagged, as collateral damage.
In fact, let me give you a few more examples of people who were flagged for the same reason:
To me, that is nothing but bullying.
Why do I direct this rant to Witnesses? Because I realise now that some of the witnesses are directly involved in this abuse of flags... and most of the others are seeing it happening for months now, and they say nothing or do nothing to stop it.
This is the reason all of these witnesses lost my vote recently:
@gtg I got notified of the mention here and would like to thank @trincowski for his consideration.
I believe the problem is serious with a small group of users, I think they're the same user with multiple accounts and no proper contribution of any value to the system here.
That user mentioned initially here whom you checked his post and disapprove his views, I believe he wrote so out of frustration.
Here's an example of what happened when I got flagged by the same user bot with his multiple accounts because that user targets someone who resteemed my resteem of @ahmedsy post which got flagged then when I wrote a separate post about it, my post got flagged by the same user's different accounts. You can see the other users getting flagged for whatever they write evn their comments get flagged by the bots users - main user name I guess is 'berniesanders'.
I had to ask that user who resteemed my post to not resteem any of my posts because he's under attack by the bots.
Here's again the link: https://steemit.com/informationwar/@arabisouri/how-low-someone-should-be-to-downvote-this-post-dsxow2az
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Thank you, yes that's exactly what happened and I don't even know what those people wanted until I saw your post you quoted above about my post which got flagged.
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