I appreciate your POV. It's how Busy and Steemit choose to deliver material that causes a downvote to "censor" material. But, it is not in fact a true sensor as the information is always there to be seen. It is literally a downvote and that was how it was designed for on Steem.
I understand the communities have evolved it into something else. As has been the unfortunate case throughout much of these platforms.
However, unfounded insults based on false premises is certainly grounds for flagging, down-vote and censorship IMO. And since it's my vote, my opinion is literally all that matters.
Calling one of the sweetest people on this platform a whore is not stimulating nor engaging. It was enraging, especially since it was obvious you didn't read the post, else you would have understood how incorrect you were. I wish to prevent others from having to experience said rage by censoring you.
Thank you for your candor in admitting that you use your flagging power to censor. Please reconsider. Censoring harms the platform. Tolerance for diversity of thought is the most important form of tolerance.
Notwithstanding your rationalization for your behavior, your use of flagging does harm the platform, and that is the behavior of a cancer cell, not a normal cell that lives in a way that is good for others and for the whole.
You act as if I went and flagged you for having a valid alternative POV.
You called another human an whore, based on unsubstantiated claims.
[that] is the behavior of a cancer cell, not a normal cell that lives in a way that is good for others and for the whole....
So, I saw your cancer and I stamped it out. For the good of the platform.
That is literally the point of flagging and down-voting.
So we are both on the same side (assuming that you really are concerned about the good of the platform). That gives us a huge thing in common. We could even become friends once we get over what might turn out to be merely a misunderstanding. Since you are motivated by concern for the platform, as am I, neither one of us are cancer cells. So let's build on that welcome discovery.
I did not call the blogger a whore. I said that the behavior that he/she was advocating, artfully and with much humor, BTW, constituted whoring. "Social intercourse whoring", to be specific. I stand by that statement. If you have sexual intercourse for money or other gain, you are a whore (or a gigolo). If you engage in social intercourse for money or other gain, you are metaphorically also a whore.
That is what I said. It is my opinion. I wasn't aware that there were "valid alternative POV" police here on steemit. I wasn't aware that you had been appointed to determine which POV's are valid and which are not. Pardon me for not seeing your badge.
You've already admitted that you flagged me to censor me. I respect you for being honest about your intentions. Please reconsider whether it really is good for the platform for us to have "valid alternative POV" police in our midst, ready to flag to oblivion any expression of an opinion that is deemed to not be valid.