How very ironic the same person/account who agreed with and even joined in on exposing such malicious Whales and their malicious tactics have changed their stance to defend such actions and people... what's going on, has @craig-grant and his cult of "Craig is MONEY GOD" followers managed to invade his brilliant mind and corrupt it (same malicious Whale who's 5 flags nearly nuked my account, I accused of combining malicious flagging with self upvoting to drain the rewards pool dry)?
yeah just recently he was laughing with me in the comments about the person that made my rep this and now he is defending them. idk what happened.
I hope your rep gets back up there as it sux being negative because of one person.
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.