These are general rules and there are requirements to follow. I just did a rant about this on my blog 30 mins ago. Yes this platform should be free from the policing box of people but there has to be general requirement rules. Just the outline rules that keep the system running and improving. You did fine and yes flag them if it's a problem. Let it go also as the haters will come! Let the best comments stay on top and the junk stay down below where it belongs.
This saga has been become a fascinating series of posts. I first came across it from the number of flagged posts in my feed which I have never really seen much of before. I agree with you @bitdollar that we don't want the haters here. That said I do like the flagging mechanism as a way to dissuade them, although I like others in here have not used it before. I was a bit surprised that we ended up at thermonuclear war quite so quickly but that was a learning for me too to not start one with an angry "71".
I have put links in comments before to other articles where I thought it was relevant to someone's questions or even the author's post but not to something that I had written "which I guess would have made it spam, if i had?" I believe that we are encouraged to provide supporting links to back up our statements although if its a link to your own content that kind of defeats the object unless you are an acknowledged expert in the field.
The decency issue is clear if asked not to do it then quit. I have learned a great deal today.
I think posting links that are relevant to the conversation is completely acceptable! I've posting my own blog posts because they were discussing the same issues and have gotten only positive feedback when I have done it in the right circumstances. Not to mention I have created some of my best relationships that why here and have received some of my biggest rewards. Spamming is when you are doing it everywhere when it is not necessary. Imo...thoughts?
True enough and I have linked to one of my own posts before where I felt it had useful information. I have taken to curation and commenting more to build up connections who have similar interests. But that actually involves replying and I am cautious of not wearing the audience out. I have only one mute against me so far :)
There is an inherent problem with a system that allows one user to completely brigade another user and completely downvote over 16 posts now.
If I can't post links to my posts in related posts (His post was about Segwit fees, and my link was about cheap Bitcoin Cash fees), then that is just another problem with this platform.
When you're posting the same link/comment to a number of people who comment on someone else's blog, that is spamming. There are not just 6 comments on this post either. There are 14 comments with the same thing on someone else's blog. And this isn't even @klye's post. So you aren't posting 1 link to 1 person's post because you thought it would be relevant. You were posting the same link to multiple people on different posts just because they are mentioning transaction fees. This is no different than an #introduceyourself spammer who is tricking newcomers for follows with their spam links and messages.
This is the problem here. You are spamming. That's not even debatable because there is evidence forever on the blockchain showing that you were spamming. @klye tried to do something about you spamming his post. First by asking you not to, then by flagging your comment, and finally flagging your posts. You can do something to get your posts unflagged. All you have to do is acknowledge (in an apologetic fashion) that you were spamming and that you will not do it anymore. Or, you can continue spamming and your reputation will eventually take a hit along with your payouts when more people with even more SP do something about it.
I wish I'd not wasted my power flagging that fuckstick so I could buy you a beer.
Even after doxing this piece of shit he's still chirping away..
Oh well, clearly a masochist attention seeker.. Fuck that guy and his delusional crusade for "freedom of speech"..
You have a new fan / follower
Brewed up some Steemit beer not too long ago. We can drink those. Steem beans to go with them too.
Those look beautiful! I'm envyious!
I'd just like to point out to @ancap47 that I posted a link to a relevant blog in this comment thread, used some random tags, and showed off some of my artwork all while being rewarded for it. There is a way of doing things that are right and provide value to the conversation and there is a wrong way of doing things which others will have a problem with and not hesitate to call you out on it.
lol. Waaaahhhh waaaaah waaaaaah
What's that noise?! Ah, just ancap47 crying over injustice after being a disrespectful asshat..
lol, all jokes aside though it's time to appologize and move on. You could have easily made an appology post and made some money already instead of trying to slander me 16 different ways for not putting up with your bullshit.
More name-calling. More profanity. Supposedly your words here are on an immortal blockchain. Might want to use a little more decorum.
I swear like a trucker regardless of my mood, If you don't appreciate the finer points of my profanity you can fuck off and go play where people put up with dickheads who demand respect but offer none in return.
I'm well aware of how the blockchain works.. I run one of the servers used to create the very blocks you spam your shit links in. ;)
I generally save flags for plagurists and ID theives... But this guy wanted to dance so I gave him his wish.
In all honesty all I'd like is for him to admit he was being out of line and appologize for wasting my time and slandering me... We'll see what happens. Some people are their own worst enemy.
The problem here is that he can't see his actions as spamming. He believes that he is just trying to get noticed. And you are trying to block him from his goal of becoming a popular blogger.
He cannot see his actions are wrong and hurtful because the path he sees to fame and fortune goes this way. (and from his view, no other way.) His goals rely on doing the thing you are telling him not to do, so you are a big evil meanie to keep him from his goals.
And he probably never realizes that the path he has chosen never works. You do not get popular by saying follow4follow.
I just had a brilliant idea. I create a thousand accounts, and I will follow someone for $10 SBD or something. Of course there is no one who would actually read their posts, but hey, 1000 followers!
(of course I would never do this... because its too stupid and sad)
Please explain how posting a link to your RELATED CONTENT is "wrong or hurtful".
Of course you can't. Bring on more censorship!!
Selling yourself on another's blog is tricky subject.
If you just post a link, it is pure and blatant advertising. And many people hate it. The rest just ignore it.
If you are actually trying to extend the conversation, you need to write a full paragraph on your view of the post you are commenting on, and then another paragraph about why your post is an extension of it and worth reading.
Also, putting an actual
<A hrefwhere it creates a link out of a part of your paragraph helps to not look like you are blatantly looking for clicks.Basically what you have been doing is going to a store, and putting up a sign in front of their store advertising your store. It is worse than rude.
If someone drops a link but has a lead up or it's relevant I generally let it slide..! But if you're just going to link spam then get pissy when I ask you not to it's a clear indicator that you had no intention of being part of the convo but rather are being a self serving jerk.. :P
Thanks btw for explaining this better than I was able to.
"Selling yourself on another's blog is tricky subject."
Ummm...was/is giving out free money...not really spam at all. And it wasn't just a link, it was a comment that was hyperlinked.
I asked you politely not to post your links in my comments.. You put on a bitch-face and continued to do so.
Honestly you must be a lonely individual or something if you haven't figured out yet that people don't like when you try to walk all over them.
My post, my rules bud. If you don't like it you can take your anti-social ass back to your mom's basement and go ragefap for all I care.
End of the day I asked you to be respectful of my wishes for you to not spam links on my posts and you decided that you didn't give a shit about listening.
"My post, my rules bud. "
No, that's actually not at all how it works. I think that might be the misunderstanding. No one gets to control the comments on their posts. I don't, why should you?
It doesn't?
Ah. Let me rephrase that then so you can understand.
It's my right to defend my posts against low life shit stirrers like you given the SP I've earned in my account.
Hope you realize soon that you catch more flies with honey then shit.. This should have been over hours ago but you appear to have some serious underlying social issues going on.
The problem here is that after being asked nicely not to spam his link to the readers in my posts's comment section he decided that he'd rather do it anyways..
I have very little patience for people who blatantly disrespect others, let alone while claiming it's their right to do as they wish and getting shitty with me for trying to minimize link spam on my posts.