Two thumbs up @rossenpavlov... it's time the community stood and let itself be heard. I've seen too many sites shut down over precisely this kind of stuff, if it is left unattended.
I know there are those who are all about "no censorship" but if leaving something unattended means the demise of the entire VENUE, then "no censorship" makes no SENSE. I also know there are those who believe everything will be OK, simply "because we're on the blockchain."
It's maybe TRUE that Steemit can't "go bankrupt," but the platform CAN become known as a "shitcoin" and the idea of 1/2 cent Steem does not really appeal to me.
So... well said.
Abusive downvoting will have the same effect - if you are going to do it, make bloody sure you have a very good reason to do so ... OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING. Not just some arbitrary dislike ... one image can speak a thousand words, one line of text can be more profound than 10 000 words of mindless nonsense.
Yes, I think I know what I'm doing :)
OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING this dude doesn't even deserves an internet connection
https://steemit.com/@shahaalam19/comments
Obviously you DO NOT! The person you are attacking is obviously 1) New to the platform, and 2) Does not speak English. I see nothing 'malicious' in what he is doing .. I see a person who can not communicate well, who wishes to increase his follower base .. so yes, he is spamming the same comment over and over, each time he upvotes a post in order to do so ... I agree this is not good, but the individual needs 'help' .. needs 'coaching' .. does not need to be insulted and beat up.
"Doesn't even deserve an internet connection!?" ... what the fuck man? What if someone thought that about you, someone who had the ability to completely shut down your activity on this blockchain, as you have done to this slightly misguided individual, simply because he can not speak English and has not found his 'community' yet.
People should not try to raise themselves up, by stepping on others .. it's unethical and assholie. :-)
Tere is a fine line between not speaking proper English and spamming. There are plenty of people out there who's mother language is not English and still, have no problem communicating. Spam is just spam, it's simple as that.
.. well you go for it ..hope it brings you and us all good luck, we are going to need it. At least do the constructive thing, before you pound -out theae poor little folk, give them some warning... give then a chance to change their ways.
My english is very bad and was wors when i first joined steemit but you have to look at statistik with 500 coments a day - Good post . I consider miself helpfull as many other people just there must be some limit . I wont flag people just because , i will flag the spam coments and i will add the reson for it .
This comment made my day. Up voted. :D keke
You are correct @kurtbeil , An image can speak a thousand words and yes, one line of text can be more profound than 10k words of mindless nonsense. But I think when the picture is of someone eating from loops for breakfast or a line of text, with 25% of it saying 'please up vote me' its pretty safe to say that this is rubbish. But I totally understand your point and agree with you of being at least a little mindful with your flagging's. Maybe its called common sense? :)
Very true, Shitcoin = shit content.
Translation = Facebook
Hey everyone! I just want to jump in here because I am in complete agreement with @rossenpavlov and @denmarkguy... when I first joined (1 month ago) I read a post that said we need to flag shit posts and comments to keep the integrity of the platform. When I first started receiving comments, I couldn't be sure what was real and what wasn't but you get the hang of differentiating pretty quickly and I began noticing a lot of this behaviour and got discouraged myself so I asked in Discord about it and everyone told me that flagging will only start a flag war and never to do it! I thought, 'what kind of message is that?" We just let people come on here and troll all day when there are people putting tons of time and effort into sharing their content and it's getting bombarded with all of this bogus? I'm happy to hear you're taking a stand because I tell you, I was starting to lose faith in this after my conversation about flagging. One day, my account got shut down because I used my bandwidth by actually commenting (real comments like this) on too many posts. I was so upset, I couldn't even post my blogs I had been working on. I think we need to work together as a community to stop this bahvior before it gets out of hand and trolls take over what could be a game changer for social media. Hat off to you for this post, I am in your corner as well!
=D
(Sorry for the rant, this has been bothering me!) Obviously it needs to be responsible and non-aggressive. I have seen people send warning flags with friendly messages (not sure of the effectiveness but love the idea)!
The thing is when you start you don't have much influence and it's very risky to start flagging, but as your Steem Power grows you become immune to small fish spamming. As you said, we as a community have the obligation to make Steemit the best blogging platform on the web, and it's all in our hands.
Well exactly and when you first come in, (speaking from experience) it's all new territory and there are so many articles on here with (not so great) advice. I noticed that it took me some time to get used to things and I am sure it's the same or similar for most. It's good just to set little reminders to those who are posting like this, almost as if we just assume they don't know any better. I think it's a friendly way to keep the site's quality up and remove the spam. :)
Totally agree with you. With or without flags Steemit is censorship free because once something is put on the blockchain it stays there forever. We should embrace the flag, and use it the other way around. It's no secret that the highest paid authors are not the best ones, and even If I upvote on less popular the rich are going to get richer. By flagging the abusers, all the really good authors will stand out. After all, Steemit is about quality content and interaction and it's up to all of us to make it happen. If we don't stand up for ourselves this place is doomed.
@rossenpavlov down voted and pummeled my account into the ground for no good reason. Looks like he has spent the last year trashing peoples accounts. Can you all please help me and down vote this guy's content to let him know how it feels
Nice post bro.i follow you.please follow you.i am new on here.i need your halp.so please follow and upvote me