Very interesting convo here. From what I've seen, getting a post flagged keeps it from showing up on feeds and I think it also stops the payment from the post. When I first started, I started with 25 rep. When I first saw @pawsdog post, his rep was 25 (sorry , I totally forgot to follow you, I am still new, but I am here now!). So it is my understanding that new accounts start with 25. I really like the idea of low-rep accounts needing to raise reputation through upvoted comments. However; there was a recent dispute on steemit where literally two whales were having flag wars against eachother. Here. At least that's when I joined the....show? It was not fun, and one of the "whales" who was flagged is still sitting at -18 reputation. Quite frankly, I can't exactly see who is even wrong in this situation. All creators, IMO, are unique original content creators. Is this guys account forever scarred? It's almost like we need some kind of appeal system.
I was recently flagged because someone thought I copied and pasted someone elses post. I was able to have a conversation with the flagger via said post and he apologized when he noticed that I never copied anyone. This flag was then lifted, by the flagger. It was quite an experience, and let me know we're all human, real people, and there is a lot of vigilance out there dedicated towards plagiarism.
Very interesting convo here. From what I've seen, getting a post flagged keeps it from showing up on feeds and I think it also stops the payment from the post. When I first started, I started with 25 rep. When I first saw @pawsdog post, his rep was 25 (sorry , I totally forgot to follow you, I am still new, but I am here now!). So it is my understanding that new accounts start with 25. I really like the idea of low-rep accounts needing to raise reputation through upvoted comments. However; there was a recent dispute on steemit where literally two whales were having flag wars against eachother. Here. At least that's when I joined the....show? It was not fun, and one of the "whales" who was flagged is still sitting at -18 reputation. Quite frankly, I can't exactly see who is even wrong in this situation. All creators, IMO, are unique original content creators. Is this guys account forever scarred? It's almost like we need some kind of appeal system.
I was recently flagged because someone thought I copied and pasted someone elses post. I was able to have a conversation with the flagger via said post and he apologized when he noticed that I never copied anyone. This flag was then lifted, by the flagger. It was quite an experience, and let me know we're all human, real people, and there is a lot of vigilance out there dedicated towards plagiarism.
I agree, I think it will all come down to common sense really.. and weighing each situation individually..