This article was great...but these comments are fantastic! Steemit seems valuable if nothing more than a platform of open and free discourse. I'm new so I don't fully understand all of the ins and outs so I'm sure I'm missing some key info. I suppose unjustified flagging can be a form of censorship upon it? As of now I'm still really enjoying it 😊
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Haha yes. The comment sections of my posts are often very entertaining. I'm not sure that I would call one flag censorship, but there is certainly a lot of what I would consider unjust flagging going on at times.
If there is anything you are curious about, as you say you feel you are missing some key info, feel free to ask and if I'm able to, I will provide you with some honest answers about the platform.
Thank you very much! Here's a question is there a way to send private messages? Or can you only talk to people in the comments?
On Steemit.com, no. However, many Steemit users use steemit.chat for that purpose. And many more use discord. If you see that "MasterDebaters Chatroom" Image at the bottom of my post, that is a link to discord. But that is just a server I created with not a ton of people yet, as it's pretty new. But, there are others you can find on there like SteemSpeak or PAL which have tons more Steemians. But you do also have the ability to send direct messages on there.
Another question 😊
When I first joined I watched a lot of you tube videos which stated that you need to upvote your own posts when you are new because people won't even try to look at your posts if there are no votes? Then in posts and comments I've come to find out that this is frowned upon? I've stopped doing it now but do you have an opinion on this?
And thank you for the chat info I will definitely check all of that out!