RE: I'm Flagging For Good!
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!
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(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. :)