I appreciate your substantive response. I am not aware of spamming from that account, but that is certainly a valid reason for flagging. I note Bernie does a lot of that. You're not flagging that group of accounts, however. Certainly no one, not even Bernie, would claim he doesn't harass and libel.
Consistency is the mark of integrity. Please apply your flags without prejudice and demonstrate that they don't fly, or not fly, because of personal reasons. I request you do so, and make no demands, but would note that Bernie has done a lot of harm to the Steem community, and discouraging flags from that vector would encourage capital gains.
Capital gains FTW.
@valued-customer
What I am showing you is a very small sample from just 19 hours ago, of what has been going on daily for 3+ years on Steem by the account holder shown in the image. Not only is that targeted harassment, but it is also spam.
It is well known that Marky is this persons friend, and he allows this sort of behavior to go on, all while turning a blind eye. The people of Steem see this, and are aware a double standard is taking place.
People are not stupid. People see the hypocrisy. And that is why Steem currency, as well as the platform has become the laughing stock of the crypto world.
I want to mention that even if the account in question had spammed in the past, which I am not aware of, that still would not justify this action. Can you imagine if you had gotten a ticket for speeding back in 2010. And then everytime the cop sees you he writes you a new ticket, when people ask him why, or what is the ticket about, as the guy it was given to broke no rule? The cop replies "Well he sped back in 2010!
And that is why this is a personal flag, there is no logic to it. This action only proves that Marky is abusing his position of power. Slow your roll Pal, your killing Steem. But then again, that is what you want after all Marky. I see right through you, and you don't fool me for one moment.
Cheers!
You make a lot of very sound points, and I'm grateful for your sharing them with me. I did point out that there are better targets, particularly Bernie, for flags flown for the reasons stated, and requested he flag them.
I didn't dig into @smidgetv's posts to verify Marky's claim, but I have seen posts from Smidge that are pretty insulting to Marky. So, instead of arguing that I asked him to apply those rules where they'd do a better job of cleaning things up. I don't expect him to do so. I know he and Bernie are friends, at least voting for each other's witnesses.
I pointed out the rules should be applied where they apply, because if they don't the applier has no integrity. I've been flagged a time or two myself, so know that just getting angry and calling names only makes it worse. I'm not trying to make it worse on Smidge. I was trying to get Marky to pay attention to his conscience and let up on Smidge by comparing Smidge to Bernie - which you pointed out well, also.
Well I have proof that they do know each other in real life. And I am going to release it soon. I am waiting for the perfect moment.. I am closing in on my final power down.. when that happens I am going to unleash a nuke of truth on Steem, which will be my final post.
Until then I am making use of my SP/VP so long as it is being held hostage.
This sounds exciting. If it is like anything else you have released it will be completely inaccurate and ridiculous.
I'd love to see any proof I know Bernie in real life because I have no idea how that is even possible since I have no clue who he is. I worked with him on a curation project and bam we are best friends. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Do let me know when you release it, I'm looking forward to a good laugh.
The perfect moment is right now. I could use a good laugh.
I never said you were "best friends", I said you know each other in real life. In addition to that since you met you have became friends. You know it. And I know it, and Steemit also knows you are friends. Any moron can see you have never downvoted him, and vise versa.
Fuck off with your bullshit you filthy liar.
I never downvoted Fulltimegeek, I guess we are best friends.
Again I never said you were best friends. Fair enough you never downvoted FTG you say. Mind you I have not looked into it. I will take your word for it.
You still lied though about not knowing Bernie.
Cheers
Sorry to hear you're down bro. We could all use a good laugh though.
Here's one about bidbots and profiteers:
Guess who's the profiteer and who's the community?
Not down at all, just like to laugh.
Ah, good. Hope it brought tears to your eyes, like it did mine. Did you catch all the symbolism with Steem? Bot owners come up with a new trick that can yank the rug out from under our tasty rewards, without doing any harm. Oops! Poor users suffer massive harm, and everything goes down in a pile of destruction.
I thought it appropos.
I love that ticket analogy!
Thanks Coin. Well it is the truth. Rules are rules. Law is law. And if we are going to defend flagging for reasons by which we can all agree (spam, stolen content, etc). Then those flags need to be on a case by case basis. Just to blanket flag someone for a past offence, for the rest of their life is absurd. And that is why we must fight against it.
Rage against the dying of the light.
Yup there is a big difference between using a bot to blanket flag and the occasional flags we do! There should be a witness rule against them particularly using their own bot (and accomplices)to attack us? Seems like they need to add a few rules for the little fish. Maybe Marky should be delegating to all the new accounts instead of hastening us. All the steem both sides loose in this war could have just gone to on-boarding! When I opened up my latest @firealien account it was horrible at first, it was like one post and a comment a week? Never enough RC's and if I were a newb I would not know where to get RC's lol! Steemit should reverse delegate a bigger chunk (like a reverse mortgage)and slowly reduce it over time. Trying to blog from a "Steemit Vanilla" account was absurd!
Yeah man you hit the nail on the head here.