I notice that nobody answered the person who has sowed discord and hate over I don't know how many posts of many posters - and challenged you right here.
You cannot talk of free market when ONE person, registered a number of times, uses Flags like weapons to destroy any posts he disagrees with, effectively censoring them.
I've already been threatened that I will be taken down to zero, so this is very real. What annoys me even more, is that I am being compelled to waste my time dealing with INJUSTICE, instead of writing and reading /seeing posts by others.
One of the very successful authors who has provided much reading pleasure for us has had her money taken from her, because this same person decided she is earning too much, and now she is thinking of leaving Steemit. I have seen a number of such penalties being imposed, as if this is a dictatorship and that person is entitled to decide what we publish and how much we earn - as far as I know, this is not applied against any of the whales, so you guys at the top are happy to let this continue?
Here are a few examples of extreme abuse:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@michelle.gent/sorry-everyone-i-m-going-to-be-taking-a-break-for-a-while
(I personally do not give a shit if he is anti anti-vaccine people and is also PRO-PEDOPHILE abuse of children! He is free to write his own articles proving himself. He does not have the right to act as sole arbiter of what we are allowed to read or see.)
Actually, as far as I know, he has not shown talent at writing, painting, poetry, photography, or intelligence at ANYTHING else (for instance, ethics, philosophy etc), apart from the talent he has shown for destroying what Steemit had come to mean to all of us.
How dare you defend him and people like him, while, at the same time pretending to care about us?
As for the argument that the money does not belong to the poster until the week is up - that is pure bullshit! If I choose, of my free will, to allot money, through an upvote, that is, in a sense, MY money, for me to spend as I wish. I am not given back that money so that I can spend it elsewhere, am I? No, the money is taken back for a 'reward pool'? So, it IS being stolen, whether from the person I gave it to or from me.
That is what 'free market' means to you?
I am not a “whale” and have been flagged countless times. I was flagged for making this post as well, and for defending @dbroze.
Saying that someone is “pro-pedophile” is a huge and serious claim. Flagging a post about pizzagate is not something I understand, but it does not necessarily make someone “pro-pedophile.” If I was this user against whom you were making the claim, I would likely be flagging your account as well.
has done what I consider to be good things here in the past dosen’t mean I condone his actions now, clearly.Wow. You sound scandalized. I didn’t defend him. I tried to help @dbroze and others launch a mini-campaign to warn others. The fact that he
You mentioned in a comment above that flagging is violence. It’s not. Violence would be this individual actually harming or threatening to harm you in real life, not just downvoting one of your posts on the internet. Leave, if you don’t like that Steemit is a stake-weighted voting platform.
I do not support accounts being flagged into oblivion. I have been on the receiving end of multiple downvotes and it hurts. Bad. I think something likely could and should be done in the way of keeping one actor from nuking new user accounts into oblivion from the jump.
I don’t think stake-weighted voting is a bad thing or that changes need to be, or should be made, on a fundamental economic level to the platform.
At a rep of 73, I thought you are a whale; I've never seen it explained what makes a whale a whale. My apologies for that.
I entered this argument at the post of @dbroze. If I may quote what he said:
So I had, I think, a fair basis for my statement about being pro-pedophilia.
Add to that the comment (in the same post) by @canadian-coconut:
I am scandalised, but not that you are "defending him", I am upset that I am coming across so many who are being hurt and nobody wants to do anyhing about it. I already mentioned that us minnows struggle to find a person to read our posts; expecting us to contact hundreds so as to gather enough to support us is not the answer for minnows. At your level it would be easier to organise something like this.
I keep on seeing you argue against stake-weighted voting. I am not against it and have not seen anyone else speak against it, though someone may have done so. I am against the system of flagging.
This is very much like giving the bullies at school the right to punish anyone, at their sole discretion. I still believe there should be a group who have the power/ability to reverse what happens when a flag is unfair and just plain malicious.
I also have the feeling that if I upvoted someone, even if only for one cent, taking it away from them is not only a possible theft against them, they are also stealing from me.
If there is a way I can help, I will not rave and rant, and I will do what I can. My problem is I do not usually offer because I cannot go on chat (I have set up my pc for max security, so I cannot watch most vids and no chat).