What actions and what people have I defended? You must have me confused because self voting is a recognized issue, it's not something that needs exposing, but in that instance I did "expose" it, or argued against self voting when people were saying that self voting is ok. Here I am though, arguing that Flagging people is not Censorship. That is ironic? Maybe you can demonstrate that flagging suppresses you and removes content or it's availability, I still don't know what that has to do with self voting.
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I speak of the tag-team action of abusing the flag to return potential payout rewards to the pool in combination with self-upvoting to basically steal those rewards from said pool. & now it appears you are defending those who could potentially be abusing the flag to suppress users.
I could use my flag all day trying to suppress idiots posting youtube music videos with one sentence b.s. to accompany it, yet choose to use my upvotes to try and help others reach their goals. Anyways....
Look, I get everyone is not going to see eye to eye on this topic. I'm sticking with the flag as a means of censorship AND curation I still stand by my word that it is being abused to suppress the exposure of someone or something (thus censorship) as well as being used appropriately to express a displeasure or disagreement with someone else's content (i.e. the naked 3 year old boy in a bathtube I flagged and commented "#pedohunters" on).
As with much in life, there are always two sides to every Coin (and sometimes 3, while other times 4 or more sides).
But what is the point of the flag? To suppress visibility of those thought to be spamming or posting plagiarized/inappropriate content. What is the definition of censorship? To suppress... to defend it as anything else is simple denial.
No offence intended @baah.... personally , I appreciate how vocal you are in your compassion of any subject (whether I agree or not).
Alright, I get it. tomato, tomato; better to just let it die rather than burn another bridge.
You're an interesting cat. A bit rougher than I expected, yet interesting none the less.
Absolutely correct from your technical standpoint. I guess the fact it can be abused for other purposes (including the intent to destroy an account one doesn't approve of for one reason or another) is a completely different subject perhaps deserving of it's own different post.
Apologies for spamming, I will try to restrain myself in the future.