the flaggers could be an adult and just mute the person they don't want to see posts from. they would rather use the downvote as a weapon to try to censor people. the last 2 days it is all I have been dealing with on steemit. I want to get back to having fun and posting, not this whole trying to not be offencive to people that an find offence in anything if they want. I just had some chick go off on a ost because it used words like "poor baby and asshole". they are deemed as unintelligent I guess. im starting to think the steemit community is supporting actions like this because they wanto make a safe space to echo chamber in. :(
I actually thought steemit might have been a good site, I have been proven wrong daily by this crap. I have brought it up a bunch of times. here is my most current post about whats going on.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@skeptic/desmonid-is-proud-to-censor-steemit-out-of-opinion
It's an interesting dilemma. I think that the spirit of the crypto space, which obviously Steemit stems from, should continue with this platform and we should place a premium on allowing free speech and avoiding censorship based on opinion at all costs. It just seems counter-intuitive to the nature of this industry to allow censorship in this manner.
I agree fully,
also If you see what is happening with twitter and youtube it should be plain to see that censorship kills social platforms.