It certainly does place the power in the hands of rich rulers. If the platform is going to thrive, those rulers (at least some of them) need to be sensible or at least appeal to a community. There needs to be a vigilante community of large stakeholders available to negate abuse of the flag. While there is certainly a freedom to disagree on rewards and such, the flag is not supposed to be abused. Your posts making zero are a clear indication that steem is operating far from economic equilibrium. I am certainly thinking a lot but there are a lot of hard problems in decentralized systems as you are intimately aware.
Ugh... I mean if the flaggers really just disagreed with the rewards don't you think just a few percent downvote would be appropriate. There is no sense putting a post that hundreds of others enjoyed down to zero. That does not reflect the value of the post. That is not how steem is supposed to operate. The waiting until the end so their actions can't be adjusted for really shows the intention.
Now I don't want this to come across the wrong way, some might see this as sucking up or whatever... you are one of the few bloggers here that has really driven a following and constantly puts out quality content. Now I don't do much reading of philosophy and most of your posts go overlooked by me. That doesn't mean I will go and flag a post making hundreds because a large community enjoyed your content. You have always stood a sense of reason so in the posts of yours that catch my eye - your opinions hold strong weight.
I agree. But how to do that, because we aren't there. What feature to do this? Do we organize a Clean-Flag Community on steemit.chat for whenever someone gets flag abused? Then we all vote to cancel the flag? I have found that people don't like to stick their necks out on an issue that could get them targeted and reduce their rewards as well. People have given me support behind the scenes, but publicly, or in their own posts, that's too risky for them. A steemit.chat place or discord server for Anti-Flag Abuse would put an eye on people and make them reluctant to join such an endeavor?
Thanks for the feedback again, appreciated.
We are certainly not there yet.. the cart is leading the horse. I think a Clean-Flag type thing would actually be a good first start. Steemit is really hard to find content. A lot of the time, content that I really wish I saw, curated and resteemed gets lost in the mess. This probably happens with some abused posts. Having a place to put things like that in front of eyes would be nice.
I do see what you are saying about confidentiality... I don't know what to do here... hopefully we can chat about this further. I really want to get to the bottom of these problems from a game theoretical standpoint.
I also want to say I left a comment on bernies somewhat rude post just now. As someone impartial to the situation I wanted to point out how it is his right to act like he does but I questioned his tactics.
I just want the best for everyone.
I don't have all the answers.
Would you like to talk on discord voice? Or text chat on discord of steemit.chat? https://discord.gg/CK8CWwr you can find me as KrNel there if you want.
So you think it's the right of feudal land owners to treat others they way they did? For plutocrats to do what they want, mistreat others, and that's a "right"?
It's not a right, it's only a "right" cooked up in a flawed system, coded that way. The feudal system was flawed. Plutocracy is flawed. Just because a system was created that gave "rights" that aren't real, true, good, rights, doesn't make them real rights.
Just got on discord. We can chat sometime soon, I have some buieness this week!
The feudal land owners is a complex situation just like it is here on steem.
Go call steem flawed?
Again, I don't read philosophy or whatnot but I am not to say the value it gives to others.
Maybe there is a point of redistribution of the reward pool to some new users?
What's your discord name#number? I'll send you a message, as I can't find you in the SteemSpeak user list...
Steemit is flawed in terms of people being able to resolve issues. It all over-simplified to run on money-power, which doesn't create favorable social and communal dynamics for success.
You should just keep crying and making whiny posts, that'll definitely fix it!
Yeah, I am not quite on board with the whines...
This is a hard situation to remain impartial to :(
is there actually any justification for your flagging, or is this bully rhetoric about "whining" your only excuse?